Opinion: We should take the idea of Britain’s ‘culture wars’ seriously understanding division is important – The Independent

Category: Culture Wars

Are the UKs culture wars real, imagined, exaggerated or manufactured? This is becoming one of the key questions of our times, but, as with so much else in culture war debates, you can always find evidence to support your preferred interpretation.

For example, our new study shows that three-quarters of the public think that the media often makes the country feel more divided than it really is. Nearly half agree that politicians invent or exaggerate culture wars as a political tactic, and only one in ten actively disagree with this.

More generally, few people have very strong feelings on many of the cultural issues at the heart of prominent debates. For example, only one in ten or fewer strongly agree or strongly disagree that UK culture is changing too fast, or that theyd like the UK to be the way it used to be.

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Opinion: We should take the idea of Britain's 'culture wars' seriously understanding division is important - The Independent

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June 4th, 2021
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