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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

The U.S. has been hit especially hard by the billionaires who control the world media with a coordinated campaign to divide us. This, of course, was a planned attack leading to the current situation. I doubt any other population would fare any better under the same attack. The American people were attacked because we're in the most powerful country, and the billionaires want to turn the most powerful country into a fascist dictatorship as a means to control literally the entire world.

Sadly, it's working, for the moment. They always lose in the end, though.

Remember, it's a class war, and there are far fewer of them, than us.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

From the US here ... the "Good" seems way too high and the "Bad" seems way too low. There are literal beings of true evil thriving in the USA.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but it's a poll so the evil people get to vote too.

They should count three fifths of a vote then. Like they forced on POC for so long.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I'm amazed that Brazil, known for its endless violence (>40k dead in 2022 and a homicide rate of > 20) sees slightly more good in their fellow countrymen than USA.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Because in Brazil people live closer to reality.

in the USA people are so safe and rich, they tend to live in their own heads and be totally out of touch of the things going on around them. Hence why we have so many crackpots who never talk to their neighbor, but yet somehow know they are secretly worshiping Satan and destroying society because they drive a Tesla.

Hell on reddit a few days ago on a Seattle subreddit there was a HUGE thread about how anyone who drives a Tesla is automatically a trump loving ignorant racist bigot human being... 50% of my neighbors drive Teslas, and if I don't hate them then I too, am automatically a evil trump supporting hateful bigot.

And if you actually talked to your Tesla driving neighbors you might find out that maybe it's not that simple. They don't support Trump but they bought a Tesla 4 years ago because of the subsidies and they are planning on getting another car but it doesn't make sense of them to get a new one for another 4 years. And 4 years ago buying a Tesla was a 'good' thing, and only since 2025 is it a 'bad' thing.

The biggest poison in American is how totally detached people are from the notion other people are just people like themselves.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Americans are realists?

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

I feel like in a lot of countries, especially Asian, what you're supposed to say about people and what you really think is different.

[–] Felis_Rex@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 day ago (5 children)

India is low-key shocking to me. Idk, did they ask women?

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

As an Indian, not shocking at all. Idk why you would think it's shocking.

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kinda invalidates this whole chart lol

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 15 hours ago

If you took the chart as an indicator of objective morality, then yes it invalidates it. But that's not what the chart is about. The title clearly indicates that it's a subjective assessment of people's views.

So Canada ranks as "good," somewhat because Canadian people are generally decent, but moreso because there's a common assumption among Canadians that other Canadians are generally decent.

Likewise in India, the chart indicates that among Indians there's a common conception that Indians are generally morally decent. This subjective perception is obviously layered with cultural interpretations of what constitutes morality.

The actual, objective morality (if such a thing exists) doesn't factor into it as much as those cultural factors.

There's also the selection bias to account for. Indian society is far more stratified than Canadian society. Who exactly is responding to the survey, and are they only considering members of their own caste in their response?

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago

It invalidates it as a tool to judge the morality and ethics. The chart might still be useful to show how heated cultural and political climates are in each state.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. This is more indicative of your own biases

[–] Felis_Rex@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Perhaps. I said that mainly because of what my female friends from India have said and how they feel about their home. It's a complex thing, and I'm not from there. I'm just expressing my surprise

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Can I ask where you are from and how do you know said female friends?

[–] Felis_Rex@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Met my friends at a US university. They're from The states of Kerala and Karnataka.

So a bit of bias on my and their parts, with them being individuals who sought out US schooling.

Having visited them Bangalore myself it was a definitely some culture shock; extremely noticable wealth disparity, police taking bribes for petty things in the open and rampant harassment depending on where you're at and what you're doing. I had a few instances as a dude where I didn't feel safe, can't imagine what those situations would be like as a woman.

I will also note that there is a unique reverence and benevolence that is present that doesn't quite exist in the states. Thinking about the chart more I might recognize why people report feeling that their common citizens are generally good.

But again it's complex... I saw a lot of people treating lower caste people very poorly in the few weeks I visited.

[–] macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Same with South Korea.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Canada too, many people would say "minority isn't Canadian" and not include them in their decision.

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[–] PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," - Zohran Mamdani

I feel this rugged individualism is a large part of the mistrust for ones neighbour in America. Also the political division.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The contrast between the US and Canada is quite stark considering how similar countries they are on the surface.

And I don't mean that as an insult to the Canadians!

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No worries, eh?

Over here it’s mostly just hosers and posers. Neither really unethical. Except for Alberta

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Albertan here; can confirm

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The US numbers don't surprise me at all.

Both sides believe to be victims of the other team's malice.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 14 hours ago

But it even being over 50% is some hardcore divided society.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

nothing to do with poltics. i live in an exclusively liberal area... and people basically are shit after covid.

i have been attacked and harassed by people in the middle of the street multiple times post-covid. that literally never happened to me until '22, and now it's a regular occurrence. not by homeless bums either, but by just unhinged regular people who decided the color of my shoes made me a a piece of shit or something.

that on top of the escalation in shitty aggresive driving, the lack of courtesy to servers at restaurants/airplanes, etc. like I never saw someone berate a waitress before, but now I see it once every couple of months.

i literally see this crazy shit now that i never saw before and i'm also subjected to it. many of my fellow liberals are losing their minds and taking it out out innocent bystanders. i won't even go into the crazy violent talk that has become normalized that makes me want to never talk with many people that I used to be friends with...

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

There's a saying about "if everyone you met is an asshole..."

I'm a little suspicious.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And one of the sides is right.

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[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Covid really showed that there were two USes, and the Election, where we knew exactly what we’d be getting, further capped it off.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Canada's numbers are also not surprising. Even though we have just as many assholes here as anywhere else, we have the same "Be polite" culture that most Commonwealth countries do.

It's just that we are often juxtaposed against the US as our closest neighbor.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This chart feels like rage bait masked in agreement bait. The source for this info seems to be off in many countries. Alberta and seemingly a ton of truckers disagreeing with their fellow Canadians only account for single digits? Sus.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

India being near the top seems pretty dystopian given they're also struggling with a Nazi infestation.

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought that not giving them a neutral option made this meaningless, but...

For data outside the United States, this analysis draws on nationally representative surveys of 28,333 adults conducted from Jan. 8 to April 26, 2025. All surveys were conducted over the phone with adults in Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Surveys were conducted face-to-face in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa and Turkey. In Australia, we used a mixed-mode probability-based online panel. In the U.S., we surveyed 3,605 adults from March 24 to 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP). This report also includes some findings from a separate ATP survey of 8,937 U.S. adults conducted from May 5 to 11, 2025.

...I think it was already meaningless from the very beginning.

[–] Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

Getting responses out of people in any semi rigorous way is pretty difficult. The sample size is large enough I'd expect it still is valid data even if we're considering a selective subgroup who are responding to an ATP call/interview.

i feel like the methodology is off.

i feel like a proportion of the population, yes, is significantly morally bad. almost one in four. (yes i have done the nitty gritty math 75 million out of 350ish million equals something) does that make all of my fellow countrymen morally bad? no. I'm still going to treat them as, on average, good, until evidence shows they are part of the population that is morally bad. in part because my locale did not vote overwhelmingly for krasnov, in part because i believe in giving people enough rope to hang themselves with.

in short, they need to be prepared for at least a bimodal distribution.

[–] Timbo1970@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a Canadian, I just wanted to apologize to those 7%. We'll try harder. Sorry.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Ehhh hungary, india korea? I know hear theres huge sociatal trust issues in india and korea but im hungarian so i know that we have those issues. Nobody trusts anyone in hungary and everyone thinks everyone else is trying to hurt them. Our neighbouring countries literally have sayings about us that captures this.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I used to be a most people are good kind of person, then covid happened and people let the world see their true colors. Yeah so many people are assholes. There are a lot of good people out there for sure, but I went from 80% of people are good to 40% of people are good in a few years. And since covid it seems like the empathy bucket ran dry for a lot of people. People have become so self centered and selfish the past few years, just straight up assholes.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's a cascade effect. The more selfish and self centered others are, it necessarily makes you behave that way.

I'm not immune. I have quit a lot of things I used to do because I felt like I was surrounded by selfish assholes and I just hated how it made me feel. I missed being around people that made me feel like they were kind and generous. And that's really really hard to find, because so many people are circling the wagons these days. Most of the people I meet who claim they are kind and wonderful are super hateful and bigoted. Their kindness only extends to people who look, talking, and think exactly like they do. As soon as they find out you 'aren't one of us' they HATE you.

10 years ago life was not like that. People might not have agreed with you, but they didn't HATE you. 10 years ago nobody cared what car I drove... now everyone makes a comment about my perceived politics based on it. It's so fucking weird.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

A big part of it was brain damage from COVID.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its insane that the U.S. and canada are on opposite sides.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I lived in Canada for 3 years. it's really not.

Their culture is way more chill and less hostile than American culture is. Americans are fueled by anxiety and hate. Canadians aren't.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

France and Italy is suprising. Do they really not trust their each other?

[–] tino@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

The rich hate the poor, the poor hate the rich. The left hates the right, the right hates the left. Most people hate half of their neighbours, colleagues and family. Paris hates Marseille and everybody hates Paris. Add to the mix that French are very proud and think very highly of themselves, so highly that they think they are better than other French. And we're pessimistic by nature.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You and I have very different definitions of "mildly"

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It'd be interesting to see a before/after of Rupert Murdoch run media getting established in places...

[–] polydactyl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

China didn’t answer?? Weird…

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