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Mar 28, 2024 · We can make peace in the culture wars. These seemingly unending conflicts about a constellation of race, gender and speech issues may turn out to belong to a limited period of specifically ...
Jul 15, 2022 · How do cultural arguments end? In Britain, some identity battles have given way to consensus. In the 1980s, intolerance of gay relationships grew amid the Aids crisis and the hardline stance of...
May 20, 2021 · How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy. Thirty years ago, sociologist James Davison Hunter popularized the concept of culture war. Today, he sees a culture war that’s gotten worse—and ...
Feb 11, 2024 · A new foundation tied to the Anti-Defamation League aims to end “discrimination, slander, and violence.” Both groups are navigating a crisis of mission about who and what they represent. By...
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- We’Re Feeling More Divided by Culture Wars
- “Being Woke” and “Cancel Culture” Have Become More Familiar to The Public…
- …And “Woke” Is Increasingly Seen as An Insult Rather Than A Compliment
- The Public Are Most Likely to Think The Term “White Privilege” Is Unhelpful
- UK Newspapers Have Hugely Increased Their Use of Culture War Terms
A majority (54%) of the public now agree the UK is divided by “culture wars” – up from 46% at the end of 2020. Agreement has risen across different sections of the population, with the biggest increases seen among 20119 Conservative voters (from 43% to 55%) and Labour voters (from 47% to 59%) and those aged 55 and above (from 44% to 57%). At the sa...
Two-thirds (65%) of the public now say they’ve heard a lot or a little about the term “being woke” – compared with around half (49%) in 2020. Reflecting this growing awareness, the proportion who say they have never heard of the phrase has halved, falling from 32% to 16% over the same period. Similarly, in 2020, 39% said they had heard a lot or a l...
Just over a third (36%) of people would consider it an insult if someone called them woke – an increase from a quarter (24%) in 2020. Back then, the public were split on whether the term should be seen as a compliment (26%) or insult (24%), but by 36% to 26% they are now more likely to view it as insulting, with the proportion who say they don’t kn...
Half (51%) of the UK public think “white privilege” is an unhelpful term when thinking about race relations in Britain today – more than double the 23% who do see it as helpful. There are significant demographic and political differences in views. In particular, white people (54%) are much more likely than people from ethnic minorities (35%) to fee...
Growing public awareness of culture war terms is linked to a massive increase in media attention that these issues have received recent in recent years. Analysis reveals: 1. Between 2019 and 2020, the number of news articles mentioning culture wars in the UK rose from 178 to 534 – but this increase has been dwarfed by 1,470 such articles in 2021. 2...
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May 12, 2022 · In 2020, 47% had never even heard of cancel culture, but this had halved by 2022. More generally, most people now agree that the UK is divided by culture wars, up from our last study in 2020.
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May 16, 2024 · The culture wars are perpetually waged in response to new and imagined threats, but they’ve been around forever. They just keep taking on new forms. In Australia, we’re seeing heated zero-sum...
