[Bonny Dick]

Nope, Cuba has the same rate as the USA 97%.

[Torie]

Ya, only 3% of folks in America are illiterate. Sure, I believe it. "Literacy" must be defined as signing your name with something other than an "X."

[Cronos]

Color is not a clear way of defining a person. You could use the term race in the broad sense with the races being Caucasian, Mongoloid and Afroid. The Afroid groups are not only the Negro, west Africans but also Ethiopians and San (bushmen). The Ethiopians in particular have a civilisation as old as Greece. The Caucasians are either indo-European or Semitic mostly. Don't know too much about Mongoloid groupings. Culture and civilisation is a far better way to diferentiate