Citizenship

This week we talked about citizenship and what it means to be a good citizen. According to Brighouse a model citizen has three criteria. They will follow the law, political participation (voting), and political participation (dialogue). We got into groups to discuss if we agree with this criteria. We thought that there should be another one added. We thought that respect was another criteria to being a good citizen.

I feel that there are many things that make a good citizen. Brighouse does state some of them, and I agree with the one we added in class. A good citizen does not have to be someone who is high in power, they can be anyone.

Today in class we took part of the citizenship test. This was eye opening for me. People that want to be considered citizen of the U.S. need to know this information to pass the test. In reality there are not many current U.S. citizen that could probably pass this test. I thought that this was really interesting.