Re: a nation of haves & have-nots? Americans equallydivided…
On Sep 13, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Andy F wrote:
On 9/13/07, Doug Henwood dhenwood@panix.com wrote:
But don’t forget the split-the-difference imperative. When asked to choose between A and not-A, Americans often want to be in the middle.
You note this often. How have you compared to other populations?
Nope, haven’t. But I’ll bet we’re outliers on that one. Most other
cultures are a lot more “partisan” - as “Bitch” says, Americans think
partisanship is bad. From looking at the politics of other countries,
that seems weird.
Kohut has a book on comparative international public opinion - there
may be some stuff in there.
Doug