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Western or westernized nations
Good point about the social acceptability of conservative ideas
My dentist used to tease me for voting Republican. He is still my dentist
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What would be a good non-western country to use as comparison?
It would only really be relevant if they had some kind of representative government.
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India?
Indonesia?
Ukraine and Russia?
Vietnam?
I am spitballing
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India is what I was thinking, but I didn't know if I was forgetting someone obvious.
I haven't seen the data, but from the younger Indian people I know, I wouldn't be surprised if the trend holds there, too.
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This is a fascinating trend. I didn't know it was a global phenomenon. I'm going to predict that women's views will start closing the gap.
The cliche is that men care about ideas and women care about relationships. As it becomes more socially acceptable to hold conservative ideas, more women will profess to hold them, especially if it helps their romantic relationships.
If that's right, a longer timeseries of this same data should show women lagging men.