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Overall, 39% of U.S. adults say they are "extremely proud" to be American in the most recent poll.

Meanwhile, only 18% of those aged 18-34 said the same, compared to 40% of those aged 35-54 and 50% of those 55 and over.

18% is still too high. As Obama's pastor said, God damn America! Americans have very little to be proud of at this point.

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[–] Kerred@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the non Americans, surveys can have any result depending on who and where you interview of course.

So much like any poll numbers can easily be skewed. It sounds like the polling company attempts to ensure a balanced urban and rural selection and balance between states and DC (which is sort of an imaginary 51st state if you will)

Here is how the company said this poll was taken:

Gallup interviews U.S. adults aged 18 and older living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia using a dual-frame design, which includes both landline and cellphone numbers. Gallup samples landline and cellphone numbers using random-digit-dial methods. Gallup purchases samples for this study from Survey Sampling International (SSI). Gallup chooses landline respondents at random within each household based on which member had the next birthday. Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Gallup conducts interviews in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking.

Source:https://www.gallup.com/175307/gallup-poll-social-series-methodology.aspx

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should build an America that you can be proud of then.

Do what you can to make things better, it's not the end for us yet.

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[–] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would u be extremely proud lol.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Never have been. I got a bad taste of what nationalism was all about very young and only grew to despise everything unjust about this country and it's bullshit "we're the best!" stuff.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

You should be proud of being American.

Ain't nobody going to take that away from me. I can just as easily be proud of being American as I can admit we have many issues to fix, but the general trend in years to be an edgelord and shit all over the US is getting real old.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, most young people aren't from the USA, so this tracks.

What I'm really curious about is how many young people are proud to be British. I myself never really felt any pride based on where I happened to be born, it was just a fluke of existence after all. There are great things about my country, but they're balanced out by bad things, which is true of most Western nations. We're alas, pretty imperfect beings.

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[–] Historical_General@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Young people are no longer majority whit e so that probably helps.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev -3 points 1 year ago

This just in: “most young people are not Americans”

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's pathetic.

If you are so one dimensional to where you can't separate politics (which I am sure it a large part of this) with everything else, then that is a YOU problem. There are plenty of things that the US needs to fix, but show me one country that doesn't. The fact that young people are too lazy or too out of touch to understand that is pathetic.

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