Americans view each other as morally bad, poll says. Canada is the opposite
Global News
While 47 per cent of Americans said their fellow citizens are morally good — the lowest score of any country — 92 per cent of Canadians had a positive moral view of each other.
A small majority of Americans view their fellow citizens as morally bad, a new survey suggests, while the vast majority of Canadians have the exact opposite view.
The two countries are at the polar opposite ends of a 25-nation survey on morality conducted by the Pew Research Center and released Thursday, which asked people around the world to rate the morals and ethics of others in their country.
While just 47 per cent of American adults surveyed said Americans overall are morally good — the lowest score of any country — 92 per cent of Canadians had a positive moral view of other Canadians, tying with Indonesia at the top of the list.
Only seven per cent of Canadians said their fellow citizens were morally bad, compared to 53 per cent of Americans.
The report’s authors note that Pew has never asked this question before, so it could not say if Americans’ negative view of their fellow citizens’ morality is new or what’s driving it, but suggested political partisanship may be a factor.
“In the United States, Democrats are more likely to rate their fellow Americans as morally and ethically bad than are Republicans” by a margin of 60 per cent versus 46 per cent, lead author Jonathan Evans told Global News.
However, he noted the pattern of “people that are not supportive of the governing party being more likely to view fellow citizens as immoral, that’s something we saw in quite a few countries around the world.”
He did not say if Canada was among them, and the Pew study did not break down the political leanings of respondents in all countries.
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