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Pew Research Center contracted Ipsos Mori to run a series of focus groups exploring young adults\u2019 attitudes toward international engagement and their country\u2019s historic role in the world. The analysis presented in this report is intended to provide insight into these topics and is not meant to be an exhaustive representation of public opinion on these issues or of particular demographic groups or countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the groups<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We held 16 focus groups from Nov. 8 to Dec. 7, 2022, in or near the capital cities of France (Paris), Germany (Berlin), the United Kingdom (London) and the United States (Arlington, Virginia), with four groups per country. Participants were recruited using a screening questionnaire designed by Pew Research Center. All participants were given financial remuneration for their time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groups typically consisted of eight adults ages 18 to 29 coming together for roughly an hour and a half. There was a discussion led by a professional moderator using a discussion guide including questions related to (1) international engagement, (2) sources of pride and shame in their country\u2019s history and (3) issues about what bring countries together, developed by Pew Research Center. All focus groups required participants to have at least some interest in politics, and all groups contained a roughly even mix of men and women and education levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groups were organized by ideological affiliation and views toward their own country\u2019s involvement in world affairs. Participants who placed themselves from 0 to 3 on a 7-point ideological scale were recruited to \u201cleft\u201d groups, and those who selected 3 through 6 were recruited to \u201cright\u201d groups. In the U.S., people were asked to place themselves on a scale from very liberal to very conservative. Groups were also filtered based on responses to the following question: \u201cIn general, which of the following is best for the future of our country: If we are active in world affairs, or, if we pay less attention to problems in other countries and focus on problems here at home.\u201d Those who answered \u201cactive in world affairs\u201d were recruited to \u201cinternationally engaged\u201d groups, and those who preferred \u201cpaying less attention to world affairs\u201d were recruited to \u201cdomestically focused\u201d groups. Across all four countries, we held four groups encompassing these elements: right internationally engaged, right domestically focused, left internationally engaged and left domestically focused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the analysis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The conversations among group participants were video recorded, transcribed and translated. The final data sent to Pew Research Center was anonymized. Pew Research Center analyzed the transcripts (in English) for key themes. Our analysis is not a fact check of participants\u2019 views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we do highlight sentiments expressed by individual participants in the report, they are meant to be representative of the themes discussed in the group more broadly. Nonetheless, quotations are not necessarily representative of the majority opinion in any particular group or country. Quotations may have been edited for grammar, spelling and clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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