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Chinese two child policy.

Government-imposed limit of two children allowed per family or the payment of government subsidies only to the first two children.

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Young people are increasingly less racist than old people

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Young people are increasingly less racist than old people

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On May 7, Emmanuel Macron-centrist, pro-European, pro-immigrant-won the French presidential election runoff against the far-right populist Marine Le Pen. After victories by Donald Trump ( who has said "laziness is a trait in blacks") and for a Brexit campaign led by the UK Independence Party (amongst which's backers 48% admit prejudice against people of other races), that is some relief for liberal globalists who feared a nativist, racist backlash spreading across the West. But it should not have come as such a surprise: the global trend is towards less discrimination on the grounds of skin tone or caste.

In the 1960s, almost half of white respondents in the US suggested they would move if a black family moved in next door. But the proportion of Americans reporting to the World Values Survey that they were uncomfortable living next to someone of a different race fell from 8% in the 1980s to 6% today. Again, in 1958, only 4% of Americans approved of interracial marriage according to Gallup polling. Support only crossed the 50% threshold in 1997. It has now reached 87%. Although people can lie to surveyors about their beliefs, the polling matches up with behavioral change: in 1980, less than 7% of marriages were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity in the United States. That climbed to 15% by 2010. There were 6,336 racially or ethnically motivated hate crimes reported by the FBI in 1994-that dropped to 3,310 in 2015.

And it isn't just the US: the World Values Survey has data on the question about being uncomfortable living next to neighbors of a different race for 29 countries-home to 60% of the planet's population, covering two waves of the survey-1999 to 2004 and 2010 to 2014. Progress is far from universal: sixteen countries have seen a decline in racism on this measure; in one country, attitudes remained unchanged; and in twelve (seven of them in Europe), attitudes have become worse. But the data suggests that about 23% of the world would have reported discomfort living next to someone of a different race in the early 2000s compared to 17% in the early 2010s. In India, for example, 42% of respondents reported they wouldn't want to live next door to someone of a different race fifteen years ago, that has dropped to 26% more recently. In Argentina, fewer than 1% display racism on this measure.

Improving attitudes worldwide are reflected in a changed legal environment: the political scientists Victor Asal and Amy Pate studied laws affecting ethnic minorities in 124 countries between 1950 and 2003. Over that time, the proportion of countries with policies discriminating against ethnic minorities fell from 44% to 19%, while the proportion with policies favoring minorities increased from 7% to 25%.

Even if reported racist attitudes may be on the decline, attitudes can persist after people stop wanting to admit them to pollsters. And racism remains a huge social and economic problem. In the US, it remains a major contributory factor to outcomes including depression, ill health, lower employment and wages, and convictions and jail time. Worldwide, New York University's Debraj Ray and colleagues have shown that ethnic division remains a major contributory factor to civil conflicts (although the silver lining is that some of that conflict is linked to ethnic groups losing privileged status).

Nonetheless, the trend towards less discriminatory attitudes, matched by a trend towards less legal discrimination worldwide, is a hopeful sign that racism is on the retreat-and it is likely that progress will continue, because young people are less racist than their elders. In France, for example, although Le Pen did comparatively well among youth voters in the first round of the election, young people overall are significantly less likely to say they did not want to live next to people of another race than old people in the last World Values Survey (14% of those under thirty compared to 31% of those above the age of fifty). Thankfully, Le Pen and Trump represent a way of thinking that is dying out.

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The data are in: Young people are increasingly less racist than old people

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On May 7, Emmanuel Macron-centrist, pro-European, pro-immigrant-won the French presidential election runoff against the far-right populist Marine Le Pen. After victories by Donald Trump ( who has said "laziness is a trait in blacks") and for a Brexit campaign led by the UK Independence Party (amongst which's backers 48% admit prejudice against people of other races), that is some relief for liberal globalists who feared a nativist, racist backlash spreading across the West.

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Tinder

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Dr. Google

Individuals don't leave their houses to visit doctors as they find their illnesses and cures.

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Building high rises & turning Parra into new CBD

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VAR in Football

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materialism

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Paper train tickets to Opal cards

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Child marriage.
Globalised awareness and change from traditional cultured ways.
Stronger human rights and regulations on the issue.

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Apple pay; the move from cash to cards to phone.

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Immigration law

The rules and regulations by media spread/awareness on immigration laws and the lack of human rights

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Endangerment/Extinction of animals

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They keep changing

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Both males and females can wear pants... But then should males be able to wear skirts?

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Black Lives Matter Movement

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Celebrities and Individuals using social media to educate and raise awareness about Human right issues within modern society
#LoveWins #BlackLivesMatter

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Gun laws

Protest, petitions, social events and the spread of awareness on social media.

Stricter laws on pistols and shotguns made my mass media change.

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There must be a pants option in all school uniforms in Australia

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The influence of celebrities, artists and social influencers

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BYOD in schools

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Jobs taken over by technologies

New jobs created by technologies (example social media, electronic newspaper/magazines)

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SAVE THE EARTH <3

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech and advocacies for the human rights of African Americans/People of colour

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Csstomers must bring their own reusable bags

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Syllabus Change

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Woolies and Coles banning disposable plastic bags

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Female Empowerment movements

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Societies beliefs and values have changed how we see our environment and how persons want to protect it

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Government policies to help encourage sustainability in Australia

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Making it permissible/legal for females to drive.

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Environmental policies: ban of plastic bags

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The introduction of the Apple Iphone

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Contraceptive Implant

Birth control implant
Hormonal IUDs
Rod implant

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Malala Yousafzai advocating for female education

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The introduction of search engines and replacement of physical books such as encyclopedia.

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Women going back to work after having children

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Introduction of the contraceptive pill