I want to note that Taiwan is the first Asian country in the world to legalize gay marriage.
Some of these info graphics tend to clump China with us.
Suspicious absence of all MENA countries.
Didn’t know the world excludes all of Africa except Nigeria where homophobia is still very much a thing. Hell my ex was Zulu and my current girlfriend is Kenyan. Homophobia is alive and well in everywhere that was conveniently left our? Lol
I’d be curious to see the changes. Nigeria got worse, but did the rest of the countries? Even this one has a lot where the majority are still homophobic, despite the decline.
It’s the fault of missionaries, that like to spread homophpbia alongside of their “charity” actions. I’d personally would blacklist any such churches and NGOs, for “funding genocide abroad”, but that would also include a pretty bad genocide happening now.
Icelands decline is because racist Garry has died.
Racist Gerry, who ate 80000 racists, must be considered an outlier and excluded from racism studies.
thats great :3
now show the islamic countries😁
Good they did not include Bangladesh. It would be all Red. Peoples view did not change.
They included Nigeria instead, where it rose from 94% to 96%
Or you could be like Nigerian become slightly worse.
wtf is going on in nigeria :D
Disclaimer: I’m not an expert, but more familiar than most westerners.
Nigeria has a particularly rough history of religious extremism and totalitarianism. Even a lot of the indigenous beliefs were particularly intolerant (although this varied a lot, as Nigeria is an extremely diverse nation). These beliefs are rare nowadays, but still influence the culture and superstition. Adding to this, you have the influence of two abrahamic religions - in the north is a significant Islamic population, and in the south, Christianity largely imported (and enforced) by the British. I can’t speak for the Islamic beleifs, but as was the case in many other places, the Christian beliefs imported and enforced were generally more conservative and extreme, and less allowed to change.
As well as this, the brutality of both regional warlords, colonization, then multiple different military dictatorships that followed, and now an ineffective government where terrorism and organized crime are common, lead many people to become more religious. Even now with a (relatively) stable and calm government, churchs and mosks are still one of the only sources for social assistance and security in communities. At the same time, the central positon of these churches leads to them being very corrupt and greedy, often being run more like a cult than a church as we tend to think of one. At the same time, in the modern world, this greed mean they also take in a lot of money from influential “Christian” organizations, for example, a lot of very rich, very political Anerican mega-churches, and will happily bend their teachings to appease wealthy donors.
All of this has led to Nigeria being effectively a perfect storm for homophobia and religious discrimination despite being (relatively) free.
thank you for the answer
My guess is the billions that the US has spent to export evangelical bigotry in Africa.
Not to disagree, but a lot of other places spent billions on exporting bigotry to Africa. Unfair to give the US all the credit.
You are right that the US doesn’t have a monopoly on this, but they are almost certainly the front runner. There are plenty of European conservatives that donate to these “causes” and we can’t forget the Catholic church that has recently compared “gender ideology” to nuclear war. Russia has also been pushing conservative and anti LGBT views, though I’m not sure how much they are involved in Africa. I’m sure there are plenty of others that I’m leaving out.
In recent history it’s mostly the US. It’s a big country, and a rich country. Canadian evangelicals do their part, but will always play second fiddle just on population grounds, while Europe is just less religious. (The funny thing is that as a result of their success overseas, evangelical churches around here are getting pretty brown and diverse, which was not the plan)
Obviously this whole chart is outside of the colonial era.
In recent history it’s mostly the US.
Guess i can’t really argue wity that. What remains is the question whether the change was mainly driven by outside forces, or is mainly the result of internal pressure. We know who recently exported the most bigotry, but was it more influencial then the bigotry that was exported there earlier? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Obviously this whole chart is outside of the colonial era.
I agree 1993 was after the colonial era, but my point is that Nigeria wasn’t a blank slate that was never influenced by anything before they collected the data for this chart.
Sure. That goes for India as well, though. This thread really seemed to be about who’s gotten worse.
Specifically on this issue in this time frame.
Christianity
Reliable recent statistics do not exist; however, Nigeria is divided roughly in half between 50–55% Muslims, who live mostly in the northern regions, and 35–45% Christians, who live mostly in the southern regions
I’d like to see more subsaharan Africa on the list. It’s a noted shift across the region, while you can see Muslim Turkey moderating.
Fucking pedo cults, man.
Heritage foundation.
Given the statistics, even gays are homophobes there
well, they are probably scared shitless if presented with the questionnaire and they prefer not to draw unwanted attention to themselves.
Not a lot of gay orgies at least
It’s likely religion doing its thing again
What is the mechanism that you believe is at work? “Religion” doesn’t really explain anything and comes across as possibly bigoted.
It’s quite a religious country
With the two major religions both not having a great track record regarding treatment of gay people
And not liking religions that want to see one dead is not bigotry, but self preservation
I’m not sure you’ve understood the question, because you have (probably unintentionally) avoided answering it. Forgive me if I now over-specify.
You’ve presented some circumstantial evidence against religion; “religion was involved in these bad things.” I am asking for the mechanism by which religion causes these bad things to happen. What is it that religion or religious practice actually does that you believe leads to these outcomes?
You weren’t talking about “religions that want you dead,” you were speaking very generally about the entire concept of religion. Are you trying to hint that you have a personal history that makes you biased and I’m not going to get objective reasoning out of you?
I’m really not sure what you want as an answer.
Of course I’m biased against religions that literally see my existence as evil incarnate.
If your religious leaders are constantly going to tell you that the gays are the root of all evil, if course the homophobia will be rampant.
I’m not sure if you want a soundbite of me saying “yes, I’m bigoted against a country that is homophobic to the core”, because I’m happily saying that, yes
All the Islamic countries are left off the list for some strange reason
These countries have not had the most reliable reporting on topics like these, so data quality/availability is a likely reason for their absence.
Religious fundamentalism is strongly correlated with anti LGBT sentiment (at least with Abrahamic religions), so it is fair to assume that these countries are probably not very good. It is also worth noting that most of them are like they are due to meddling (or outright coups) by western nations. Iran was fairly progressive for its day before the CIA overthrew their democratically elected government.
Turkey would like a word.
Time travel
Even in progressive countries like norway thats one in ten people think that homosexuality is never or rarely ok. Insane. Thats so many people. Its a minority, sure, but its still common.
Unfortunately every country has their low-water-mark percentage of irredeemable bigots. Thankfully most of them tend to live out in the middle of nowhere, away from civilised people.
Problem is that those people have the internet now…
Christians aren’t people.
You wish it was about religion. In Poland most of homophobes I know aren’t religious in any way and Poland is/was religious country.
They hate them cuz they’re different and easy to hate for laughs. “I have nothing for gays. Not even respect, hehehe” etc.
Here all the fuckers who want me killed¹ are christian, and it’s the main vector for homophobic propaganda, still probably the main vector for transphobic.
¹before they meet me
You should modify that to “belongs to a backwards branch of a religion”
Christians in my country are mostly LBQT-friendly. (These are not the fundamentalisic US kind of christians though).
Muslims on the other hand… some serious fraction are homophobes…Religion in general isn’t great, but they’re much less vile when they’re a persecuted minority.
Eeeeeh, it’s just as likely to turn them into extremist fanatics.
Which thry become if you dont step on them.
They’re Christian like Trump is Christian. It’s not religion driving this.
Did not expect Japan that high up, I guess the gay mangas had an effect.
Hey I’m not saying if has anything to do with the fact that manga publishers started printing futanari stories more openly in the mid 80’s…
But I’m also not not saying it’s related…
Surely the inverse would be true. The fact that they felt able to publish that kind of content was because of cultural shifts.
What a weird and confusing way to phrase that.
I think a direct link to the data/source should be required while posting in this community. Sure, it would reduce submissions but the quality will be muvh higher.
Japan with the massive turnaround. Netherlands chill AF as usual.
Netherlands chill AF as usual.
Probably comes from legalising weed. They got better things to worry about xD
Except for Nigeria :(
Considering that the majority of countries are missing from this, i wonder how many more there are where it got worse.
I think I’ve made this comment before but I’m always amused at the phrasing of homosexuality being rarely justified.
So gay sex is WRONG and you’ll go to HELL for your DEBAUCHE…wait 😳 he’s cute! 😍 ok god will let you off this time ☺️.
it’s common sense that homosexuality is acceptable when it’s between two hot women /s
Or as ancient Romans and Greeks it’s justified if you’re fucking a guy in the ass, but not when you’re taking it in the ass.
Well, between the thighs.
It is also acceptable when there are no female holes around, or when you’re only gay for pay /s
Just a phase, jada-jada, while a half-in tip dip from behind is an armed break-and-enter robbery, character ass-ass-ination even, get-shot-on-the-spot crime.
My takeaway is that as soon as acceptance goes past 50% it really speeds up by double digits each generation.
