In the present chapter, we ask ourselves how the global value structures could have contributed to the political earthquake that relates to the re-election of Donald Trump to the White House in January 2024. Massive migration from the Global South, where observance of the Ten Commandments is strong, to the Global North, where hitherto secularisation contributed to a dramatic value change away from the values of the major global religions, start to change the secular landscapes of the Global North. Without weighting for the population figures, the entire sample recorded by the World Value Survey today shows that Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian Orthodox religious beliefs play a strong role in the global Ten Commandments observance and that this observance is far stronger than among the main religious denominations of the Global North, namely Roman Catholics and the Protestants as well as the other Christian denominations. Continued global migration from the South to the North will further transfer their values to the Global North. Another very interesting question which arises here is how the acceptance or non-acceptance of the four components of the religious moral values index is distributed over the birth cohorts of the population covered by the World Values Survey. We show that the younger the world population becomes, the lower is the rejection of the traditional sexual morality of religious communities. The global younger generations increasingly distance themselves from the “Cultural Revolution”, 1968 style. We also show a particularly strong, linear relationship between the strength of the factor “religious believers” and the date of birth: the younger the global population becomes, the more religious it will be. Also, the relationship between religious activists and the date of birth is almost totally linear and again also clearly in favour of a growing number of religious activists around the globe. The younger the world’s population gets, the more religiously active it will be. The present chapter also shows how the opinions on the Ten Commandments by global publics interact with multiculturalism and socio-economic development, emphasising the business ethics perspective. Our data analysis for the United States yields similar tendencies and implies that candidate Kamala Harris in the United States presidential election of 2024 backed the wrong horse with her very clear pro-abortion campaign. In the present chapter, we also use Wave 6 data from the World Values Survey to show the extent to which especially the African American population now tends to hold more traditional values than white Americans. We also show the relevance of the parametric Religious Morality Index and its four components in the various states of the United States, whereby, interestingly, religious values are strongly represented in several of the so-called swing states of the November 2024 elections. We also show in addition how the Muslim population in the various countries of the world does not follow the radical change in values that seems to be so important for the libertarian political left. This massive difference of the more religiously orientated Muslim population to secularistic society can be seen in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, North Macedonia, Switzerland, China and Thailand. Sooner or later, a libertarian-minded political left that insists that the observance of the Ten Commandments should be consigned to the dustbin of history in countries with a growing population that has emerged from migratory contexts will have to pay the political price for its myopia at the ballot box.

Good-Bye 1968: Multicultural Values and Generations

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Arno Tausch

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In the present chapter, we ask ourselves how the global value structures could have contributed to the political earthquake that relates to the re-election of Donald Trump to the White House in January 2024. Massive migration from the Global South, where observance of the Ten Commandments is strong, to the Global North, where hitherto secularisation contributed to a dramatic value change away from the values of the major global religions, start to change the secular landscapes of the Global North. Without weighting for the population figures, the entire sample recorded by the World Value Survey today shows that Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian Orthodox religious beliefs play a strong role in the global Ten Commandments observance and that this observance is far stronger than among the main religious denominations of the Global North, namely Roman Catholics and the Protestants as well as the other Christian denominations. Continued global migration from the South to the North will further transfer their values to the Global North. Another very interesting question which arises here is how the acceptance or non-acceptance of the four components of the religious moral values index is distributed over the birth cohorts of the population covered by the World Values Survey. We show that the younger the world population becomes, the lower is the rejection of the traditional sexual morality of religious communities. The global younger generations increasingly distance themselves from the “Cultural Revolution”, 1968 style. We also show a particularly strong, linear relationship between the strength of the factor “religious believers” and the date of birth: the younger the global population becomes, the more religious it will be. Also, the relationship between religious activists and the date of birth is almost totally linear and again also clearly in favour of a growing number of religious activists around the globe. The younger the world’s population gets, the more religiously active it will be. The present chapter also shows how the opinions on the Ten Commandments by global publics interact with multiculturalism and socio-economic development, emphasising the business ethics perspective. Our data analysis for the United States yields similar tendencies and implies that candidate Kamala Harris in the United States presidential election of 2024 backed the wrong horse with her very clear pro-abortion campaign. In the present chapter, we also use Wave 6 data from the World Values Survey to show the extent to which especially the African American population now tends to hold more traditional values than white Americans. We also show the relevance of the parametric Religious Morality Index and its four components in the various states of the United States, whereby, interestingly, religious values are strongly represented in several of the so-called swing states of the November 2024 elections. We also show in addition how the Muslim population in the various countries of the world does not follow the radical change in values that seems to be so important for the libertarian political left. This massive difference of the more religiously orientated Muslim population to secularistic society can be seen in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, North Macedonia, Switzerland, China and Thailand. Sooner or later, a libertarian-minded political left that insists that the observance of the Ten Commandments should be consigned to the dustbin of history in countries with a growing population that has emerged from migratory contexts will have to pay the political price for its myopia at the ballot box.