American Standards.

I was reading my Political Science book, which is a bit of a rare thing for me, but some of the facts struck me as odd.

One was that only 55% of Americans vote, which is believable, just incredibly sad. The second was that less than 1% of all Americans participate in a mass demonstration in a year. A YEAR. :O

I think it's pretty common knowledge that while Americans don't necessarily mean to not care as much as they obviously don't, this is just obscene. I find it funny when you hear the outrageously outspoken people and it's assumed, "oh those Americans are so passionate!" but no... we just have really loud extremists and a very apathetic majority.

Another fact that saddened me was that as far as political knowledge, on a global average, we rank second to last for least knowledgeable [second only to Spain in least political knowledge].

I wonder what we can do to change this.