The educational divide on whether life is better is greatest in Poland and Peru (both 19 percentage points). I may be wrong but it is my opinion. New scientific discoveries and technological advancement have made our life much easier than it used to be in the past. Many people fell victims of which hunts and of Inquisition. A separate survey in the U.S. was conducted June 27-July 9, 2017, among 2,505 respondents.Latin Americans stand out for their widespread negative assessment of progress over the past half-century. Undeniably, life today is simpler and easier. A majority in Turkey (65% better) also share a sense of progress over the past five decades. In the past they were treated by men as "a second class" citizens. However, the changes have taken place not only in the technology or science but also within a society.First of all, today equality and freedom are the most basic human rights, while in the past those who were wealthy had control and power over the poor. What is more, due to very bad hygienic conditions in which people lived, epidemics of various diseases killed thousands of people.All things considering, it seems obvious that now life is much better than it was in the past. Events unique to the history of individual countries cannot be ignored when considering why publics are more positive or negative about how the present compares with 50 years ago. They were completely dependent on their husbands then. Nie masz konta? This essay supports the viewpoint that life in these days is better than it was a century back. However, women finally won their long battle for suffrage and today they can not only vote but also become members of the parliament. And in Venezuela, where only 20% say conditions are good, 10% say life is better for people like them. Many nations fought fierce wars and it was very common that cities and villages were ravaged by invaders.

Nearly six-in-ten Jews in Israel say life has improved, compared with only a third of Israeli Arabs who see similar progress.And in South Africa, there is a sharp racial divide on social progress: Blacks in the country, who a half-century ago were oppressed via the apartheid system, are much more likely to say life is better today for people like them (52%), compared with mixed-race (or “coloured”) and white South Africans (37% and 27%, respectively).For example, Germans who support the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) are 28 percentage points more likely to say that life is worse off for people like them than those who have an unfavorable view of the anti-immigrant party. Venezuelans and Mexicans (72% and 68% life is worse) are the most downbeat, but nowhere in the region do more than half say life has improved for people like themselves.Across the Middle East and North Africa, views of life today compared with 50 years ago vary substantially by country. Across the Middle East and North Africa, views of life today compared with 50 years ago vary substantially by country. Pew Research Center put that question to nearly 43,000 people in 38 countries around the globe this past spring.At a country level, some of the most positive assessments of progress over the past 50 years are found in Vietnam (88% say life is better today), India (69%) and South Korea (68%) – all societies that have seen dramatic economic transformations since the late 1960s, not to mention the end of armed conflict in the case of Vietnam.
In the past, especially at the times of feudalism, society fell into estates and people at the lowest level of the social ladder, namely peasants, have actually no rights. Seven in … It is amazing how much the world has changed over the last century. Greeks (53% worse) and Italians (50%) are the least convinced that life is better than 50 years ago.The Asia-Pacific region is home to some of the most favorable assessments of progress.
Besides, nowadays women are independent and many of them are successful businesswomen running their own companies. However, our analysis also indicates that views of the current economy are a strong indicator of whether people say life for people like them is better today than it was 50 years ago, even when controlling for the demographic factors of income, education, gender and age. Vietnam (88% better) stands out, but views of life today vs. the past are also quite rosy in India (69%), South Korea (68%) and Japan (65%). The conditions of life are definitely much better now but it can be questioned whether the quality of life is really better. Overall, the correlation between economic assessments and views of the past is quite strong (+0.68).These are among the major findings of a Pew Research Center survey conducted among 40,448 respondents in 37 countries from Feb. 16 to May 8, 2017. Half of adults over the age of 50 agree that life in the past was preferable to today, compared to just 19 per cent who think the present day is best. On the other hand, I think it was a little better than today. Filipinos are the least sanguine about progress, with fewer than half (43%) saying life is better.In North America, Canadians widely report progress over the past five decades (55%) while fewer Americans (37%) say the same about life in their country. Turkey reports the most progress in the region, with 65% saying life is better, followed by Israel, where 52% say the same about their country. It was better in such meaning that it was safer and more carefree. For example, in Vietnam, where 91% say economic conditions are good, a corresponding 88% say life is better for people like them compared with 50 years ago. A regional median of 53% describes life as better today, compared with 30% who take the opposite view.