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If those poll results are accurate, then people under 38 years of age are, well, "misinformed."
In fact, the United States of America in 2018 is the probably the least "racist" and least "sexist" nation in this world.
No nation in the world goes as far as the United States of America in according rights (and some privileges) to ALL ethnicities and women.
Rather than sloppy I’d suggest that was entirely intentional so that whatever the actual results, they’d be able to spin some eye-catching headlines from them to grab valuable mainstream media coverage and promote their pre-determined conclusions.PS - If you take a look at the actual survey questions asked, you will also see that they are incredibly sloppily worded and use terms that are so subjective that it is impossible to tell if one person giving an answer is actually responding to the same OBJECTIVE question that another person who gives the same answer is.
From FOX News
Nearly Half of Young Americans Believe US Is Racist and Not 'Greatest' Country, Survey Finds
An alarming new online survey found that national pride is falling among the next generation.
The survey, conducted by polling firm YouGov, reveals that many members of the younger generation (under 38 -- Generation Z and millennials) do not identify with patriotism or American exceptionalism.
The Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, which sponsored the survey, highlighted some key findings, including that 46 percent of respondents do not agree that America is the greatest country in the world, half believe the country is sexist (50 percent) and racist (49 percent), and 47 percent say America's future should be driven by socialism over capitalism.
Other findings include:
COMMENT:-
Just two minor points before everyone flies into a flap over the results:
- "On-line polls" are notoriously inaccurate because they have a marked tendency to use a "self-selected population"; and
- the number of people that it requires to obtain statistically reliable results (+/- 3.5%) 95% of the time if the "population" is around 13,500,000 is around 400. The population of 14 to 17 year olds in the US is around 13,500,000. The number of responses for that demographic in this survey was 100. Using only a sample size of 100 produces a "confidence interval" of +/- 50%. [What that means is that, with the surveyed population in this survey, if the recorded result was 50%, then the actual result could be someplace between a low of 0.00% and a high of 100%.
PS - If you take a look at the actual survey questions asked, you will also see that they are incredibly sloppily worded and use terms that are so subjective that it is impossible to tell if one person giving an answer is actually responding to the same OBJECTIVE question that another person who gives the same answer is.
Fact is, its no the greatest. People can be ignorant people and think they must blindly say the US is the greatest country ever, but there is so much shame on this country. In fact, there always has been, but phony patriots just ignore the ugly of our history and just blinding bang the patriotic drums.
For the richest country in the world, our wealth disparity and poverty is appalling. Our education system sucks. our healthcare sucks. We are falling behind on strengh of our patent system. We are losing out on being the leaders of new emerging industries. Our foreign policy is that of hypocritical bullies. And we have a large percentage of the population who are racist, hateful idiots
Oh, but we are really good at killing brown people across the world and being in constant war to fund the defense contractors
From FOX News
Nearly Half of Young Americans Believe US Is Racist and Not 'Greatest' Country, Survey Finds
An alarming new online survey found that national pride is falling among the next generation.
The survey, conducted by polling firm YouGov, reveals that many members of the younger generation (under 38 -- Generation Z and millennials) do not identify with patriotism or American exceptionalism.
The Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, which sponsored the survey, highlighted some key findings, including that 46 percent of respondents do not agree that America is the greatest country in the world, half believe the country is sexist (50 percent) and racist (49 percent), and 47 percent say America's future should be driven by socialism over capitalism.
Other findings include:
COMMENT:-
Just two minor points before everyone flies into a flap over the results:
- "On-line polls" are notoriously inaccurate because they have a marked tendency to use a "self-selected population"; and
- the number of people that it requires to obtain statistically reliable results (+/- 3.5%) 95% of the time if the "population" is around 13,500,000 is around 400. The population of 14 to 17 year olds in the US is around 13,500,000. The number of responses for that demographic in this survey was 100. Using only a sample size of 100 produces a "confidence interval" of +/- 50%. [What that means is that, with the surveyed population in this survey, if the recorded result was 50%, then the actual result could be someplace between a low of 0.00% and a high of 100%.
PS - If you take a look at the actual survey questions asked, you will also see that they are incredibly sloppily worded and use terms that are so subjective that it is impossible to tell if one person giving an answer is actually responding to the same OBJECTIVE question that another person who gives the same answer is.
From FOX News
Nearly Half of Young Americans Believe US Is Racist and Not 'Greatest' Country, Survey Finds
An alarming new online survey found that national pride is falling among the next generation.
The survey, conducted by polling firm YouGov, reveals that many members of the younger generation (under 38 -- Generation Z and millennials) do not identify with patriotism or American exceptionalism.
The Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, which sponsored the survey, highlighted some key findings, including that 46 percent of respondents do not agree that America is the greatest country in the world, half believe the country is sexist (50 percent) and racist (49 percent), and 47 percent say America's future should be driven by socialism over capitalism.
Other findings include:
COMMENT:-
Just two minor points before everyone flies into a flap over the results:
- "On-line polls" are notoriously inaccurate because they have a marked tendency to use a "self-selected population"; and
- the number of people that it requires to obtain statistically reliable results (+/- 3.5%) 95% of the time if the "population" is around 13,500,000 is around 400. The population of 14 to 17 year olds in the US is around 13,500,000. The number of responses for that demographic in this survey was 100. Using only a sample size of 100 produces a "confidence interval" of +/- 50%. [What that means is that, with the surveyed population in this survey, if the recorded result was 50%, then the actual result could be someplace between a low of 0.00% and a high of 100%.
PS - If you take a look at the actual survey questions asked, you will also see that they are incredibly sloppily worded and use terms that are so subjective that it is impossible to tell if one person giving an answer is actually responding to the same OBJECTIVE question that another person who gives the same answer is.
Well, we know for sure that the 65,000,000 people who voted for Hillary are liberal politically correct idiots. Fact is, everyone is racist to one degree or another, including all of those very same idiots who call others racists. Some of the most racist people I have ever known are black.
There is shame in every country that has done great things. To my knowledge there is no country that has only engaged morally and humanely throughout it's history while accomplishing anything close to what the US has. The US has saved the world IMO. Not many countries can make that claim. Despite our flaws America is a country to be proud of.
However America today is an embarrassment. America is the sum of it's people and the American people are a disgrace.
Correction: American leadership is a disgrace!
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So of us think of the glass as half full, you others see it as completely empty.This is de jure versus de facto.
De jure = In law.
De facto = In practice.
It's like dismissing the reality behind the Civil Rights Marches because the Declaration and the Constitution said all is well. One of the reasons the U.S. "goes as far" is that it is trying to overcome the base instincts of racism, bigotry, and sexism that deep-rooted religion and centuries of institutional slavery created.
I agree with much of what you said... at the beginning.There is no question that the US is a great country. The Marshall Plan was the most magnanomous and insiteful foreign policy in history. As for being the most free, well, that is not exactly true. You are among the most free but Norway, Canada, New Zealand for example, are just as free. American exceptionalism is based on hyperbolic propoganda. If the rebels had lost the revolutionary war, you would have been just like Canada.
I agree with much of what you said... at the beginning.
As to American exceptionalism, America is exceptional. Organizing disparate peoples under a government in itself is exceptional, ask the cavemen and women, ask wandering peoples, ask the strong individual Indian tribes that fought with and were finally defeated by a unified state.
The nation organized as the United States is more exceptional that all the other exceptionals.
You see, our founders and framers were not beaten by the Crown, did not remain as subjects as did Canadians... not that y'all didnt turn out fine, but we are different and by far and way more exceptional up to this juncture in the planet's history.
There is shame in every country that has done great things. To my knowledge there is no country that has only engaged morally and humanely throughout it's history while accomplishing anything close to what the US has. The US has saved the world IMO. Not many countries can make that claim. Despite our flaws America is a country to be proud of.
However America today is an embarrassment. America is the sum of it's people and the American people are a disgrace.
What are you even talking about? nobody teaches that? Why make stuff up to try and make an argument attacking teachers?You can thank the schools for that. The present America as a plunderer of indigenous peoples, and if America didn't exist the continent is presumed to still be the way it was. Hardly. We would have been a group of European colonies and sub countries of France, England, Spain, and Russia, and the chances are we would not be sitting here at a keyboard. If you lived in California you'd be pushing a plow behind a Spanish horse.
It's time to have a look at what and how teachers are teaching their destructive agenda and fix it. Pretty soon they will be chanting the virtues of being more like China.
There is no question that the US is a great country. The Marshall Plan was the most magnanomous and insiteful foreign policy in history. As for being the most free, well, that is not exactly true. You are among the most free but Norway, Canada, New Zealand for example, are just as free. American exceptionalism is based on hyperbolic propoganda. If the rebels had lost the revolutionary war, you would have been just like Canada.
Even taking into account your accurate summation of online polls, the results actually don't surprise me and I wouldn't doubt the accuracy all that much. I actually wouldn't be surprised if a more accurate type of polling would find much higher numbers.
You might be correct, but I'm not about to do anything based on a poll that (essentially) says "Someplace between 0% and 100% of the population studied think that ...".
Quite frankly I'd be overjoyed if people were to pay me good money for conducting research that had such accuracy of conclusion.
If those poll results are accurate, then people under 38 years of age are, well, "misinformed."
In fact, the United States of America in 2018 is the probably the least "racist" and least "sexist" nation in this world.
No nation in the world goes as far as the United States of America in according rights (and some privileges) to ALL ethnicities and women.
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