{"id":13826,"date":"2014-04-29T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T09:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13826"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T09:52:36","slug":"south-africans-are-very-conservative-pew-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13826","title":{"rendered":"South Africans are very conservative Pew finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africans are very conservative according to findings by an\u00a0independent American fact tank Pew Research Centre.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the poll, former Constitutional Court Justice Zak Yacoob said there was a \u201chuge disconnect\u201d between societal values and the constitution.<\/p>\n

Pew released its Global Views on Morality survey earlier this month.<\/p>\n

South Africa fared the most tolerant of the African countries polled \u2013 including Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya \u2013 but less so than its international counterparts.<\/p>\n

The study, which covered 40 countries, focused on eight moral issues ranging from premarital sex to contraceptive use and divorce.<\/p>\n

The following percentage of South Africans found these practices morally unacceptable:<\/p>\n

Extramarital affairs: 65%
\nHomosexuality: 62%
\nAbortion: 61%
\nPremarital sex: 48%
\nGambling: 40%
\nDivorce: 40%
\nAlcohol use: 36%
\nContraception use: 15%<\/p>\n

Ninety eight percent of Ghanaians believe same-sex relationships are immoral. At 93%, the figure is slightly lower in Uganda. This is in stark contrast to European countries like Spain, Germany, Britain and Italy, where less than 20% rate homosexuality as unacceptable.<\/p>\n

For South Africa, the findings could explain why violent attacks on members of the lesbian and gay community are common.<\/p>\n

Justice Yacoob\u00a0suspected that the true picture of South Africans\u2019 views on moral issues was in fact \u201cmuch worse\u201d.<\/p>\n

South Africans are not interested in most of the “liberating” issues foisted upon them by a small and too vocal minority, often\u00a0isolated voices\u00a0from a\u00a0foreign and too powewrful transnational media hoping to thus gain influence in the country.<\/p>\n

Experts questioned the items polled, and said South Africans should be concerned with \u201creal moral issues\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africans are very conservative according to findings by an\u00a0independent American fact tank Pew Research Centre. Speaking on the poll, former Constitutional Court Justice Zak Yacoob said there was a \u201chuge disconnect\u201d between societal values and the constitution. Pew released its Global Views on Morality survey earlier this month. South Africa fared the most tolerant … Continue reading “South Africans are very conservative Pew finds”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8872,1101,8875,1643,2470,8873,8874,8876],"class_list":["post-13826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-conservative","tag-ghana","tag-global-views-on-morality","tag-kenya","tag-nigeria","tag-pew-survey","tag-societal-values","tag-tolerance"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nogay.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13832,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions\/13832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}