In 2002, 60 percent of Americans agreed with the statement."Our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others."
By 2007 that number only 55 percent of Americans could agree with that statement. Now it has dropped to 49 percent and will keep dropping.
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.
Here are how the people of European nations responded to that statement. United States: 46% disagree, 49% agree Germany: 52% disagree, 47% agree Spain: 55% disagree, 44% agree Britain: 63% disagree, 32% agree France: 73% disagree, 27% agree
What could possibly explain this drop? Pew points the finger to higher-education.
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