Today, December 5, 2017, the Pew Research Center stats collectors published the results of a study, Worldwide, People Divided on Whether Life Today Is Better Than in the Past.
More Americans now say living was better 50 years in the USA than it is today. Forty-one percent prefer the 1967 USA while thirty-seven percent prefer the 2017 USA. Americans down on contemporary living have joined ranks with the Senegalese (45% vs 42%), Nigerians (54% vs 41%), Kenyans (53% vs 38%) and not surprisingly, the French (46% vs 33%) and the Italians (50% vs 23%).
Of those Americans with more education, 53% say living is worse today than 50 years ago. While those with less education, 66% say living is better today than 50 years ago.
Almost seven in ten Americans age 50 and older along with a bit more than six in ten age 30 to 49 say life is worse today. Not surprisingly, slightly more than half (51%) of Americans, 18-29, with their youthful optimism, believe living is better today.
The stats minds at Pew claim that current economic conditions are the key factor in determining perceptions about living.
Back in 1967 in the USA, Americans lived by one culture. The USA was a fully Christian (92%), white nation (88%).
The beliefs that gave rise to the USA — the Bill of Rights, Protestant work ethic, property individualism and Protestant religious individualism — which led Americans to the golden age of the USA (1954-1971), have been eroded severly since the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965. That act has cut down whites as a percentage of population to 61.3%, down from 72.4% in 2010, 75.1% in 2000, in 80.3% in 1990, 83.1% in 1980 and 87.5% in 1970, and Christians to 71%.
Many deny it, but demographics is destiny.
Outside of the USA, the Vietnamese, South Koreans and Hindians all say their lives are better now than for those who lived 50 years ago. That fails to surprise.
However, even with NAFTA and a massive uplift in median income, 68% of Mexicans say life is worse today than it was 50 years ago. That surprises.
Almost seven in ten Americans age 50 and older along with a bit more than six in ten age 30 to 49 say life is worse today. Not surprisingly, slightly more than half (51%) of Americans, 18-29, with their youthful optimism, believe living is better today.
The stats minds at Pew claim that current economic conditions are the key factor in determining perceptions about living.
Back in 1967 in the USA, Americans lived by one culture. The USA was a fully Christian (92%), white nation (88%).
The beliefs that gave rise to the USA — the Bill of Rights, Protestant work ethic, property individualism and Protestant religious individualism — which led Americans to the golden age of the USA (1954-1971), have been eroded severly since the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965. That act has cut down whites as a percentage of population to 61.3%, down from 72.4% in 2010, 75.1% in 2000, in 80.3% in 1990, 83.1% in 1980 and 87.5% in 1970, and Christians to 71%.
Many deny it, but demographics is destiny.
Outside of the USA, the Vietnamese, South Koreans and Hindians all say their lives are better now than for those who lived 50 years ago. That fails to surprise.
However, even with NAFTA and a massive uplift in median income, 68% of Mexicans say life is worse today than it was 50 years ago. That surprises.
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