| The Britishness test is a hypothetical list of questions that will be posed to applicants for British citizenship. The concept was recommended in 2003 by Sir Bernard Crick's advisory group on citizenship, and endorsed by the United Kingdom Home Secretary David Blunkett. Applicants will have to demonstrate a certain level of fluency
in English, Welsh, or Scottish Gaelic.
According to The Guardian [1] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1035146,00.html), typical citizenship test
questions (proposed) may look like:
- Who is the prime minister?
- How do you pay a phone bill?
- In the UK, you pay your landline phone bill by either direct debit or filling the slip at the
bottom with the payment at a post office (through Girobank) or bank.
- What does it mean to be a good neighbour?
- How did the United Kingdom come about?
- When was Britain last invaded?
- Identify the political party with each of the following three policy statements ...
Another
list of typical questions (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3078690.stm) from the
BBC has in addition:
"Cricket Test"
Former Conservative minister Norman Tebbit once suggested the
"cricket test", also known as the "Tebbit test", where he suggested that people from
ethnic minorities in Britain should not be considered truly British until they supported the England cricket team, as opposed to
the country of their or their ancestors' birth.
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