Cultural Gap: How Values Have Diverged Worldwide

The cultural gap between countries has sharply increased over the past 40 years. Scientists have analyzed survey data from 1981 to 2022, involving 406,185 people representing 76 different national cultures, and examined their attitudes towards various controversial issues. It turned out that values emphasizing the importance of tolerance and individualism have diverged most sharply, especially between Western countries with high income levels and the rest of the world.