11/23/2023 0 Comments American optimism![]() While majorities in both parties make negative predictions for the country’s future across all four items in the survey, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are somewhat more likely than Democrats and Democratic leaners to have pessimistic views. For example, 77% of Americans now expect the nation to be more politically divided in 2050 – up from 65% who made that prediction five years ago. For each of the four items included in the new survey, Americans today are about 10 percentage points more likely to offer a negative prediction than they were when asked to think about the year 2050 in a separate survey conducted by the Center in 2018. Views of specific problems have also become more negative over the past five years. But far fewer have quite a lot of confidence, and the share of Americans who express confidence in the country’s future has declined over the past year. Around six-in-ten (58%) say that life for people like them is worse today than it was 50 years ago, according to the survey, which was conducted from March 27 to April 2.ĭespite these negative attitudes, a majority of Americans say they generally have at least some confidence in the future of the U.S. Far fewer adults predict positive developments in each of these areas.Īnd when Americans reflect on the country’s past, the present looks worse by comparison. ![]() economy will be weaker, the United States will be less important in the world, political divisions will be wider and there will be a larger gap between the rich and the poor. adults say that in 2050 – just over 25 years away – the U.S. Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,079 U.S. Copyright © 2023 The Author(s) Open Access Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License ( ), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.Pew Research Center conducted this study to learn about Americans’ views of the country’s past and future. ![]() ![]() Finally, the combination of these issues causes feelings of self-doubt, false standards, and identity issues within the Asian American community. Moreover, the lack of representation in government permits Asian American stereotypes. The push for higher education misleads young Asian Americans which causes identity issues and false expectations. Asian Americans are often seen as a “model minority” as their work ethic, obedience, and stress for success are used to negative stereotypes against the community and other minorities alike. Creates negative emotions such as self-doubt and internal struggles about one’s Asian American identity. In this paper, I will explore the question: how do we interpret minor feelings when American optimism contradicts the tough reality of Asian Americans? To answer this question, I will focus on the tough realities of Asian Americans in the field of education and how the “dogma of American optimism”. ![]()
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