{"id":331,"date":"2011-12-01T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2011-12-01T00:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T04:49:00","slug":"the-american-western-european-values-gap-pew-global-attitudes-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"The American-Western European Values Gap | Pew Global Attitudes Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3> <\/h3>\n<div>  <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2011\/11\/17\/the-american-western-european-values-gap\/?src=prc-headline\">The American-Western European Values Gap | Pew Global Attitudes Project<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>As  has long been the case, American values differ from those of Western  Europeans in many important ways. Most notably, Americans are more  individualistic and are less supportive of a strong safety net than are  the publics of Britain, France, Germany and Spain. Americans are also  considerably more religious than Western Europeans, and are more  socially conservative with respect to homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Americans  are somewhat more inclined than Western Europeans to say that it is  sometimes necessary to use military force to maintain order in the  world. Moreover, Americans more often than their Western European allies  believe that obtaining UN approval before their country uses military  force would make it too difficult to deal with an international threat.  And Americans are less inclined than the Western Europeans, with the  exception of the French, to help other nations.<\/p>\n<p>These differences  between Americans and Western Europeans echo findings from previous  surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center. However, the current  polling shows the American public is coming closer to Europeans in not  seeing their culture as superior to that of other nations. Today, only  about half of Americans believe their culture is superior to others,  compared with six-in-ten in 2002. And the polling finds younger  Americans less apt than their elders to hold American exceptionalist  attitudes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This is a  fascinating read. If I had to give it a subtitle, I&#8217;d say, &#8220;More  Americans removing heads from butts &#8211; finally!&#8221; It is difficult to stay  small minded in this increasingly globalized world, though many manage  to do so, and do so with amazing arrogance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American-Western European Values Gap | Pew Global Attitudes Project: As has long been the case, American values differ from those of Western Europeans in many important ways. Most notably, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The American-Western European Values Gap | Pew Global Attitudes Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}