Race Is Central to Identity for Black Americans and Affects How They Connect With Each Other
Many Black Americans say they learn about their ancestors and U.S. Black history from family.
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Many Black Americans say they learn about their ancestors and U.S. Black history from family.
Indians accept women as political leaders, but many favor traditional gender roles in family life.
Family is preeminent for most publics but work, material well-being and health also play a key role.
India’s artificially wide ratio of baby boys to baby girls – which arose in the 1970s from the use of prenatal diagnostic technology to facilitate sex-selective abortions – now appears to be narrowing. Son bias has declined sharply among Sikhs, while Christians continue to have a natural balance of sons and daughters.
Two-thirds or more in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam say that women should decide for themselves whether to bear children.
Nearly six-in-ten want organizations working for Black progress to address the distinct challenges facing Black LGBTQ people. Black Americans are more likely to know someone who is transgender or nonbinary than to identify as such themselves.
Indians nearly universally say it is important for women to have the same rights as men, including eight-in-ten who say this is very important.
India is poised to become the world’s most populous country this year; its population has more than doubled since 1950.
Among those ages 18 to 29, friends and community often rank in the top three sources of meaning, fulfillment and satisfaction in their lives.
The growing gender gap in higher education – in enrollment and graduation rates – has been a topic of conversation and debate in recent months.
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