Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 45.2% male: 62.7% female: 27.6% (2003 est.) cia world factbook. a country where the literacy rate which is defined as ONLY READING AND WRITING, is this(shown above), and a country where CULTURAL/ RELIGION influecne drives the world , will it be possible for democracy to work? hence, as we know, our culture still harbors so much narrow ideas for this time period, u think we will survive democracy? and can we relate culture/religion and democrary? ofcourse...we can put our eyes right here in amerca and watch, cultural and religion influecne in democracy.. ..eeh, i dont know if i am hitting the right point..