Global Support for International Trade
In all 47 nations included in a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey, large majorities say international trade is a good thing for their countries.
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In all 47 nations included in a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey, large majorities say international trade is a good thing for their countries.
That’s the percentage of Italians who voice concern about immigration, the highest share of any of the publics in the latest Pew Global Attitudes 47-nation survey.
That’s the proportion of Americans who cited environmental problems as a major global threat in a recent Pew Global Attitudes poll, a double-digit increase over the number who did so five years ago but still fewer than in any other advanced industrial country or in China.
About one-in-five Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters (21%) said last month that an endorsement by former vice president Al Gore, now winner of both the Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award, would make them more likely to support a candidate; just 7% say his endorsement would drive them away.
That’s the share of Jordanians who say they have a lot or some confidence in Osama bin Laden as a world leader, down sharply from the 56% who said so four years ago.
Support for suicide bombings in defense of Islam declined by half or more in Lebanon, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia over the last five years, according to a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey.
That’s the share of the public who say that American society is divided into two groups, the “haves” and the “have-nots.” An equal number (48%) say society is not divided.
By 2005-06, just one in five white students (21%) attended a nearly all-white school while the number of nearly all-white public schools was down by 35% from the level a dozen years earlier.
That’s the very large share of U.S. online adults who use the internet to pursue hobbies from genealogy to gambling.
That’s the share of the Mexican public who rate their current lives at 7 or better on a scale of zero to 10 — the highest proportion of any of the 47 countries covered in the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey.
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