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In reply to the discussion: WHY is There so much HATE in this country??? [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)43. Things are getting better globally other than environmentally which is deteriorating.
Global poverty is way down though there is a long, long way to go. And global climate change is a huge problem that, if not dealt with, could overwhelm everything else.
People are never told about the progress. Decade after decade, they think it is as it was long ago.
It may come as some comfort to Norwegians that, according to Rosling, the comparatively better performance of American respondents doesn't mean they are better educated: quite the opposite in fact.
The problem for me was not ignorance," he told the audience in his famous TED talk. "It was preconceived ideas."
He said that people in Norway were not kept up to date by the media on changes in global trends, pointing to the deceleration in population growth over the last few decades as the most telling example. According to the survey, there will be two billion children in 2100, a number only seven percent of Americans, six percent of Norwegians and eleven percent of Swedes got correct.
"People are never told about the progress. Decade after decade, they think it is as it was long ago. The world view that emerges corresponds quite well to the world 30-40 years ago. They have a time lag of 30-40 years. Look at vaccination," he continued. "The number of children vaccinated, people think its between 2025 percent who are vaccinated, but its 84 percent."
http://www.thelocal.no/20140212/norwegians-more-ignorant-than-americans-study
It may come as some comfort to Norwegians that, according to Rosling, the comparatively better performance of American respondents doesn't mean they are better educated: quite the opposite in fact.
The problem for me was not ignorance," he told the audience in his famous TED talk. "It was preconceived ideas."
He said that people in Norway were not kept up to date by the media on changes in global trends, pointing to the deceleration in population growth over the last few decades as the most telling example. According to the survey, there will be two billion children in 2100, a number only seven percent of Americans, six percent of Norwegians and eleven percent of Swedes got correct.
"People are never told about the progress. Decade after decade, they think it is as it was long ago. The world view that emerges corresponds quite well to the world 30-40 years ago. They have a time lag of 30-40 years. Look at vaccination," he continued. "The number of children vaccinated, people think its between 2025 percent who are vaccinated, but its 84 percent."
http://www.thelocal.no/20140212/norwegians-more-ignorant-than-americans-study
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Sure - but religion also produced the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nt
el_bryanto
Feb 2014
#52
Not only that, his Dittoheads made death threats to the guy who spoke out about it.
freshwest
Feb 2014
#30
Sure, and I hear you. Still, the reactionary stuff is a reaction to some major fundamental shifts.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2014
#7
I'm sure people in conservative red states are confused and probably mad.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2014
#12
And likewise, there are progressives in all 50 states. So I think you misunderstand me.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2014
#39
Things are getting better globally other than environmentally which is deteriorating.
pampango
Feb 2014
#43
It is, and it's contagious, and how the practitioners of hatred make their tons of
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#62
Fear. Fear they will lose what little they have to someone else. It is easier to hate than fear
uppityperson
Feb 2014
#13
Mass killings in schools, churches and other public places started a long time ago.
proudretiredvet
Feb 2014
#18
But that is exactly what the stats indicate. It is black and white simple addition and subtraction
proudretiredvet
Feb 2014
#85
The phrase "going postal" was coined in the 1980s due to a string of mass shootings
hack89
Feb 2014
#59
The powers encourage people to hate and fear each other rather than the bigger things
uppityperson
Feb 2014
#68
upward mobility is now lower than the countries people's ancestors left to come here
Johonny
Feb 2014
#29
People "get mad at logical constructs that make easy scape goats instead; blacks, gays, Mexicans,
pampango
Feb 2014
#48
And enough sustained fear and hate can lead to dramtic change - usually not for the better.
pampango
Feb 2014
#47
Things are improving. Straight folks on DU in 2007 spoke hate against LGBT
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2014
#58
Civil liberties in the US are ALWAYS an uphill battle in a country that brags to the
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#63
Partly it's the 1% encouraging the rest of us to misdirect our fears at each other rather than THEM.
Gidney N Cloyd
Feb 2014
#66
Birds of a feather flock together, and that's what conservative hate churches are for.
Zorra
Feb 2014
#74
Looks to me, like all the hate is promoted by republican paid media and RW fake- "charities"
Sunlei
Feb 2014
#83