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pbmus

(12,422 posts)
Sun May 8, 2022, 04:04 PM May 2022

Ideological divisions over cultural issues are far wider in the U.S. than in any other country...!!!

When it comes to key cultural issues, Americans are significantly more divided along ideological lines than people in the United Kingdom, France and Germany, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of surveys conducted in the four countries in fall 2020.

Across 11 questions on cultural subjects ranging from nationalism to political correctness, the gap between the ideological left and right in the United States – or liberals and conservatives, in the common U.S. parlance – is significantly wider than the ideological gaps found in the European countries surveyed. In some cases, this is because America’s conservatives are outliers. In other cases, it’s because America’s liberals are outliers. In still other cases, both the right and left in the U.S. hold more extreme positions than their European counterparts, resulting in ideological gaps that are more than twice the size of those seen in the UK, Germany or France.

Below, we explore these trends in more detail.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/05/ideological-divisions-over-cultural-issues-are-far-wider-in-the-u-s-than-in-the-uk-france-and-germany/

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Ideological divisions over cultural issues are far wider in the U.S. than in any other country...!!! (Original Post) pbmus May 2022 OP
Interesting results, but I think the timing of the survey spooky3 May 2022 #1

spooky3

(34,460 posts)
1. Interesting results, but I think the timing of the survey
Sun May 8, 2022, 04:36 PM
May 2022

(During TFG’s term) affected results, especially about “traditions”, “pride”, and discrimination.

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