U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

It’s not clear why so many Americans think their neighbors are immoral, but experts think political polarization has something to do with it.

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A mural of an American flag on the side of a building in Verona, Pennsylvania. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

From Indonesia to Nigeria to Greece, people around the world see some slice of their fellow citizens as immoral or unethical. But there is only one country where the majority of residents say their countrymen are “bad”: the United States.

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