Few radical successful the United States oregon different developed nations presumption American ideology arsenic an illustration for the remainder of the satellite to follow, a Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday shows.
In the Global Attitudes Survey this spring, Pew asked 18,850 adults successful 17 precocious economies, including the United States, astir their views of American nine and politics. Countries surveyed included Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Germany and South Korea.
“Very fewer successful immoderate nationalist surveyed deliberation American ideology is simply a bully illustration for different countries to follow,” Pew’s study said. Outside the United States, a median of 17 percent said U.S. ideology acceptable a bully illustration for different countries to follow, portion 57 percent said U.S. ideology “used to beryllium a bully example, but has not been successful caller years.” An further 23 percent said the United States has ne'er been a bully illustration for democracy.
Respondents successful the United States were conscionable astir arsenic negative — with 19 percent saying American ideology provided a bully example. A further 72 percent said their state “used to beryllium a bully example” of a ideology for the world, but “has not been successful caller years.”
People successful Taiwan, Italy and Greece were the astir affirmative astir the authorities of American democracy; Singapore, Australia and New Zealand the least.
The survey, which was conducted implicit the telephone and online from Feb. 1 to May 26, came aft President Trump dispersed the mendacious assertion that he, not President Biden, won the November election, and aft a pro-Trump mob rampaged wrong the U.S. Capitol. The Jan. 6 rioters trapped lawmakers and vandalized the Capitol successful the worst desecration of the analyzable since British forces burned it successful 1814.
Despite disapproval of U.S. ideology overall, a median of 60 percent crossed 16 countries said the U.S. authorities respects the idiosyncratic freedoms of its people, acold higher than 8 percent who said China respects its people’s idiosyncratic freedoms in the aforesaid survey.
The survey besides revealed a crisp partisan disagreement among U.S. respondents. Democrats and independents who thin toward the Democratic Party were doubly arsenic apt arsenic Republicans and independents who thin toward the Republican Party to accidental American ideology has ne'er been a bully exemplary for different countries to follow, Pew noted.
Globally, America’s planetary estimation had improved since the predetermination of President Biden, the study said, with a median of 75 percent saying they had assurance Biden would bash the close happening successful satellite affairs, compared with the 17 percent who said the aforesaid of Trump successful 2020. The survey was conducted earlier the United States’ chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan, during which the Taliban took power of the country.
However, the survey, which came little than a twelvemonth aft the sidesplitting of George Floyd by a Minneapolis constabulary officer, besides recovered “widespread criticisms astir the existent authorities of civilian rights successful America,” Pew added. “While galore accidental favoritism is besides a superior occupation successful their ain countries, they consistently accidental favoritism is worse successful the U.S. than successful their country.”
Ellen Francis contributed to this report.