Most Americans Think Their Fellow Citizens Are Bad People

From Indonesia to Nigeria to Greece, people around the world see some slice of their fellow citizens as immoral or unethical. But there is only one country where the majority of residents say their countrymen are “bad: the United States of America.

A striking survey released Thursday finds that 53 percent of American adults describe the morality and ethics of their fellow citizens as “bad” (somewhat bad or very bad). In the 24 other countries polled by Pew Research Center, most people said other residents there are somewhat good or good.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is Canada, where Pew found that 92 percent of people say their fellow Canadians are good, while just 7 percent say they’re bad.

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