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2020-01-15 Home Front: Culture Wars
Absolutely shocking number of young Americans say other countries are better
[Campus Reform] Over a third of young Americans do not believe that the United States is the greatest country in the world.

In a recent Pew Research poll, 47 percent of Democrat and Democrat-leaning Americans between the ages of 19-29 prefer other countries over the U.S, while 19 percent of Republicans within the same age group agree.

The poll also showed that 36 percent of this age group say other countries are greater than the U.S.

The survey was conducted as part of a larger study by the Pew Research Center in September about partisanship as "the dividing line in the American public’s political attitudes."

The findings showed that within the age group of 19-29, 47 percent of adult Democrat and Democrat-leaning individuals believe that there are other countries better than the United States, while within the same age group, 19 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning individuals agree. That leaves only 53 percent of young Democrats who prefer the United States to any other country, while 81 percent of young Republicans favor America.

The same survey found 36 percent of all young Americans within the ages of 19-29 believe other countries are better than the U.S, leaving only 64 percent who believe in American exceptionalism.

When the same age group was asked their opinion about America being a military superpower, 55 percent of Democrats in the same age group responded that they wouldn’t mind if other countries could be as militarily powerful as the U.S. Even a sizeable percentage of Republicans of the same age group agreed, with 38 percent agreeing with their Democrat counterparts.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-15 07:33|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Kudos to USA education system!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-15 07:41||   2020-01-15 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 So they shouldn't be surprised or disappointed when their queer studies and barista science master's degrees don't generate enough income to pay off that six figure student tuition loan.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-15 07:50||   2020-01-15 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 The other way around MM: USA is bad because they've been told that their queer studies and barista science master's degrees should generate enough income to pay off that six figure student tuition loan.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-15 07:54||   2020-01-15 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I dunno. I think the people selling that whopper about going in debt for a useless degree are no friends of the USA either...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-15 08:01||   2020-01-15 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 The same survey found 36 percent of all young Americans within the ages of 19-29 believe other countries are better than the U.S,

So why stay here? Your actions and belief system seem to be out of sync. [particularly given the example of millions of illegals who have come here]
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-15 09:09||   2020-01-15 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Like my father used to tell me - 'If ya don't like it here, gettafuckout!'
Posted by Raj 2020-01-15 09:11||   2020-01-15 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #5: Your actions and belief system seem to be out of sync.

Please explain ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-15 09:13||   2020-01-15 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 I suspect more virtue signaling than real opinion went into this poll.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-01-15 09:25||   2020-01-15 09:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Ship 'em to the other countries then. They will be crying to come back in a month.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-15 10:10||   2020-01-15 10:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Besoeker, I think he mean If their actions and belief systems synced they'd vote with their feet.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-01-15 11:29||   2020-01-15 11:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Reminds of the time that we did a survey in college in our Human Geography class: >90% would never live in Mississippi but only ~15% could identify Mississippi on the map.
Posted by Airandee 2020-01-15 13:52||   2020-01-15 13:52|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd be curious to see the ethnic, religious and um, epidermal breakdowns of these results.
Posted by charger 2020-01-15 14:08||   2020-01-15 14:08|| Front Page Top

#13 "young Americans say other countries are better"

So go there, already, jack@sses. We'll take up a collection to buy your one-way plane tickets.

Just make sure you renounce your citizenship before you leave so those other "special" countries will welcome you with open arms (or open something). >:-(
Posted by Barbara 2020-01-15 16:00||   2020-01-15 16:00|| Front Page Top

#14 I'd be willing to swap one leftist for a latin-American immigrant on a one-on-one basis.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-01-15 16:33||   2020-01-15 16:33|| Front Page Top

#15 I'd prefer to swap them for Eastern Europeans who have no illusions about "socialism".
Posted by charger 2020-01-15 19:43||   2020-01-15 19:43|| Front Page Top

#16 American students, disdaining
Traditional standards and training,
Convinced that their nation's
The worst in creation,
Remain there... to help... by complaining.
Posted by Squinty Unolumble8261 2020-01-15 22:56||   2020-01-15 22:56|| Front Page Top

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