The Onion gets to the heart of cultural bias in standardized testing:

“And in our new, expanded essay section, we ask test-takers to solve disputes among servants, describe what it was like to attend their first polo match, and identify the important settlor and beneficiary characters in a fictional trust fund.”

Beautiful.

Brings me back to a fourth grade math aptitude test, where me and my fellow New Hampshire country-bumpkin classmates tripped up on a word problem involving calculations of city blocks. Cause when you live on a farm in the middle of the woods three miles from your closest neighbor, what the hell is a city block?

I think the teacher ended up changing the question to one about moccasins and kayaks.