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Global inequality data

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:44:21 +0000

Global inequality is due to income disparities between privileged groups and the vast majority of the population.

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In EU, there’s an East-West divide over religious minorities, gay marriage, national identity (by Jeff Diamant and Scott Gardner)

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:29 +0000

Generally, adults in the EU’s Central and Eastern European states tend to be less likely than those in the EU countries of Western Europe to say they would welcome Muslims or Jews into their families or neighborhoods, and they are less likely to favor same-sex marriage. At the same time, the Central and Eastern Europeans are more likely than the Western Europeans to view Christianity as an important component of their national identity, and to express higher levels of religious commitment.

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Eastern and Western Europeans Differ on Importance of Religion, Views of Minorities, and Key Social Issues

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:13 +0000

The Iron Curtain that once divided Europe may be long gone, but the continent today is split by stark differences in public attitudes toward religion, minorities and social issues such as gay marriage and legal abortion. Compared with Western Europeans, fewer Central and Eastern Europeans would welcome Muslims or Jews into their families or neighborhoods, extend the right of marriage to gay or lesbian couples or broaden the definition of national identity to include people born outside their country. These differences emerge from a series of surveys conducted by Pew Research Center between 2015 and 2017 among nearly 56,000 adults (ages 18 and older) in 34 Western, Central and Eastern European countries, and they continue to divide the continent more than a decade after the European Union began to expand well beyond its Western European roots to include, among others, the Central European countries of Poland and Hungary, and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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