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What does it really mean to be a citizen?
The podcast discusses citizenship as legal status and moral responsibility amid immigration debates and changes to the U.S. civics test, highlighting challenges for native-born and naturalized Americans.
- Episode 232 of The Ethical Life probes whether citizenship is a legal status or a moral practice, with hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada leading a discussion as the U.S. nears its 250th anniversary.
- Immigration debates and test changes have made citizenship a public flashpoint, while growing frustration with democratic institutions fuels insider/outsider framing of who counts as citizen.
- Drawing on ethics, history and lived experience, The Ethical Life hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada explore citizenship as habits and responsibilities beyond legal status.
- The episode signals a gap in civic education as Scott Rada highlights many U.S.-born people would struggle to pass the new-citizen civics test, raising questions about societal values.
- Richard Kyte warns that democratic life endures only with active participation, emphasizing civic participation and framing the American experiment as ongoing responsibility and progress.
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What does it really mean to be a citizen?
The Ethical Life podcast: Legal status defines standing, yet democratic life demands practice. The hosts examine civics, immigration debates and why shared responsibility sustains self-government beyond paperwork.
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