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marigolds6 t1_j56rlj3 wrote

The note in the corner is interesting, "Countries in this zone are very divided and doubtful that their differences can be overcome." Columbia is in that group and is 14th of 28 (from low to high) on the scale of "I do not feel these divisions can be overcome", putting them in the lower half of countries for doubt and below some countries even in the Moderately Polarized tier. The US sits at 17th, putting them also below countries in the Moderately Polarized tier.

On the other axis, Sweden has high doubt, but sits pretty close to the middle at 13th for degree of polarization, below some Moderately Polarized countires.

That might suggest that there should be a different way to group the countries when 1/2 of the severely polarized countries might not really represent the description of severely polarized?

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_OriamRiniDadelos_ t1_j5ag1am wrote

As a Colombian, maybe it’s a language thing?

Saying yes to “I do not feel this divisions can be overcome” sounds like Im saying that I think the country will collapse if the divisions aren’t completely fixed

“Overcome” means that you came out the other of a hard event still alive right?

Also we have a very politically apathetic culture (“what does it matter it’s always corrupt”) with a very very very toxic relation with social media (WhatsApp and Facebook) and very strong reasons to just hate either leftist or rightist politicians (if you had a family member killed by the FARC or rebels years ago you hate the left, if you had a family member killed by the Army or the paramilitary you hate the right). And our politicians play to all that in elections (since they always have any projects or economic improvements to point to)

The pandemic years where rough on political polarization. Look at Colombian news subreddits (and then think that WhatsApp groups where worse)

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