I Am Propaganda Literate
The literacy test brought out the worst in me. Much the way Civics does. Ever my bitchy self, I answered sarcastically bordering arrogant to all of the stupid questions (
read: all of the questions).
My one GIANT complaint is their painfully obvious ploy to instill some sort of sick national pride in us. Some bespectacled grey-haired idiot was in some office, cackling "Let's get em while they're young!" Well, you didn't get me you bastards!! I figured you out! Now this is not to say I boycotted the question or anything -that would be dumb- but I answered in exactly the way they didn't expect. The Evil Question was "Should Canada join the United States?" (followed by 3 blank pages). You know they want to go on about how Canada's "nicer" and whatnot, and while I agree that in some cases we are, to put a question like that on a literact test is counter-productive in my opinion. Incidentally, a far more efficient question would have been something to the effect of, "which are better, dogs or lemurs?" It was as if they were testing our nationalism/patriotism/devotion/brown-nosing, as opposed to our ablility to write an opinion piece. Like Lisa said, they sent off our booklets to Intelligence, to see who had the nerve to answer "Yes".
Note: Before that essay question, was some reading comprehension of an article about how we shouldn't poke fun at our Canadian symbols. It was okay, until I realized the
entire test was going to be about how much we should
loooooove Canada.
I could go on, but I'm spent.
Edit: 230$ of L'oreal clearance make-up later....I am REALLY spent
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