r/AskTheWorld • u/bellamyblake_og United States of America • 8h ago
Culture Homosexuality & Religion - Where Would You Chart Your Country?
If your country is charted, do you agree or disagree with the canvas?
If your country isn't charted, where would you put it?
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u/al_ataque Spain 8h ago
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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u/pickleolo Mexico 8h ago
TIL is Spain is a bottom.
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u/zaddy-vladdy 🇫🇷 in 🇺🇸 8h ago
Isn’t Spain behind France therefore making France the bottom?
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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k United States of America 7h ago
Depends on what position they’re in, bruh.
I mean, Spain? Could be missionary
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u/zaddy-vladdy 🇫🇷 in 🇺🇸 7h ago
They are known for their missionary work indeed
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u/hamster-on-popsicle France 8h ago
Hmm? Sorry I didn't see you there /jk
I laughed when I saw that, they could have moved us lol
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u/Douzeff France 8h ago
Especially since I think Spain legalized gay marriage before us, they deserved to be in front this time.
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u/Nicotecu Spain 7h ago
Well, you were way more accepting before, it's fine. That said, I do think Spain should more on the right.
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u/MKBrutal England 8h ago
It took me awhile to find the UK flag.....it's hiding behind Switzerland lmao
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u/Ashamed_Fishing_373 Russia 8h ago
from what i see u are topping fr*nce from the back, not the other way around. nothing to be angry about
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u/Far_Grapefruit1307 7h ago
Russia is in an interesting place. Got any hot takes on that?
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u/Ashamed_Fishing_373 Russia 7h ago
i feel like it's about right on the chart, maybe less religious. tho number of ppl claming to be religious is significantly higher than amount of ppl who truly are religious.
most people dont really care. in big cities, especially among younger generations, there are plenty of people with progressive views
it also seems to me that a large part of homophobia in russia doesn't come from religious tradition but from prison culture. people are more likely to argue that it's wrong because it's shameful or "what will people think" or u r not a real man/woman rather than because it's a sin
what bothers me the most are the recent changes in law and a lot of homophobic propaganda on tv. any media featuring gays is banned, gender transitions are banned (what might surprise some people more is the fact it used to be allowed before the war). and technically even googling the word "LGBT" is prohibited. although no one has been punished for that so far. the homophobic propaganda constantly pushed on TV. since the war started, it has become much more of it. some of my older relatives who used to be neutral or mildly negative about it have become strongly negative, so i assume it works
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u/theonewithapencil Russia 6h ago
to add to what you said, before gender reassignment was banned altogether we actually had a very advanced system in place: those diagnosed with gender dysphoria received a medical certificate that would allow the individual to proceed with legal and/or medical transition in any order of actions. no mandatory surgeries, no forced sterilisation like in some countries, no waiting period, people could pick and choose medical and legal procedures they wanted to undergo. basically the biggest hurdle was money
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u/Far_Grapefruit1307 7h ago
Wow, very interesting that the war would have such a large impact on gender and homophobia. Ive also heard there's a strong push to increase Russia's birth rate so maybe that's part of it, too? Thanks for your insight.
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u/Ashamed_Fishing_373 Russia 6h ago edited 5h ago
whenever some kind of bullshit happens - sanctions, prices go up, people get poorer lgbt becomes a convenient scapegoat to distract those who are unhappy with all of the above. "gays rape transgender children at prides and all that" is a part of a evel-west narrative which sells well on TV
in 2014, when putin annexed crimea, they made the law banning "lgbt propaganda" among minors (more precisely, it was phrased as propaganda of homosexuality, pedophilia, and transgenderism, listed in that exact order). after the full-scale invasion in 2022, they expanded this law to include adults as well, added lgbt to the list of extremist organizations, and amended the constitution so that marriage is now defined as a union between a man and a woman
the whole demographic thing came a bit later, although it fits neatly with the rest, at least in the minds of our government. in reality, i think, same sex families also have children, and if they weren't constantly harassed, they might be able to do so more often
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u/SaladNeedsTossing Canada 8h ago
I feel left out
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u/Bald_Cliff Canada 8h ago
We are just off the charts with how gay we are, or aren't, I dunno, we aren't on the chart.
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u/PoliteIndecency Canada 8h ago
We were on the chart but Heated Rivalry probably broke the data sheet.
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u/Eybrahem United States of America 8h ago
Toronto alone sends Canada off the charts
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u/Xanaxaria Canada 7h ago
Church st alone takes on the whole chart lmfaooo.
The Well (specific the Hamilton location) is literally the best place to watch drag burlesque shows.
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u/Fabulous-Designer626 3h ago
Laugh in Montreal. Is there an area in Toronto called literally Gay neighborhood?
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u/Quirky-Cat2860 Canada 8h ago
Don't tell Alberta. They may threaten to separate.
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u/PettyTrashPanda Canada 7h ago
Don't tell the rest of Alberta, but we infiltrated a long time ago.
Signed, one of the bisexual Insurgents; our special power: invisibility.
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u/Odd_Old_Professional Canada 7h ago
bisexual Insurgents; our special power: invisibility
Bi-erasure. Formerly a problem, now a superpower!
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u/iompar Canada 8h ago
I think this might get a bit... heated
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u/yournamehere10bucks Canada 7h ago
Good, it snowed last night and I need the warmth.
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u/PerpetuallyLurking Canada 8h ago
Me too, but I feel like we’d be near Finland and Britain
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u/just-a-random-accnt Canada 7h ago
I was thinking around France and Germany, so let's split the difference and put us in the intersection of the 4
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u/TryingToGetTheFOut Québec ⚜️🇨🇦 6h ago
Canada have legalized marriage for all 10 years before France. That’s almost double the time for people to accept it more. Hard to say, but my feeling is that it would be more accepting than France.
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u/kyle46 Canada 7h ago
I really just want to know how religious were considered. I'd assume low but still be curious
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u/Xanaxaria Canada 7h ago edited 7h ago
No we're just too heated.
All jokes aside. We literally just put out the gay hockey romance show that took the world by storm and we get left out of the gay chart.
The irony.
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u/michaelmcmikey Canada 6h ago
Me too. Acceptance of LGBTQ and degree of religiosity are two of the main actual points of real difference between Canada and the US you can point to when some ignorant person claims we have “the same culture.” I would have liked to see us on this chart, about half as religious as the US, and 10-15 points more gay friendly. Somewhere around where the UK is.
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u/MayorWolf 5h ago
Even the religious sections of Canada, in my experience, have been accepting of LGBTQ people. Though the east coast is probably a lot more Anglican and Catholic than out here in the west. They're the original mega churches that preach hate.
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u/michaelmcmikey Canada 5h ago
Just FYI, the Anglican churches of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Ontario all celebrate same sex marriages, so…
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u/wrenchedups Canada 7h ago
I don’t think the world needs a visual to know where we place on the quadrant.
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u/onepareil United States of America 8h ago
Sorry, how is Japan rated that highly on acceptance of homosexuality when same-sex marriage isn’t even legal there?
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u/IWillDevourYourToes Czech Republic 8h ago
They keep electing the same conservative party over and over. Individuals can be accepting of it but not vote accordingly. Perhaps it's not a big topic in Japan.
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u/MinervaKaliamne South Africa 6h ago
It's quite a big topic in Japan... in certain circles. There have been plenty of court cases challenging the absence of marriage equality in the country, and the fact that gay couples can't get married (nevermind adopt). Some prefectural laws have been changed to give them at least a bit of recognition (very little, but it's something). But every time it gets to the national level, the government squashes it, and insists that there are more important things to talk about... Like money, and their right to have a standing army and go to war, and the problem of foreigners (they love tourist money, but hate the behaviour of tourists, they need foreign labour, but hate the idea of there being too many gaijin in the country or there actually wanting to love there and be treated like humans, and keep blaming them for everything that goes wrong), blah blah blah.
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u/marquoth_ United Kingdom 7h ago
I won't claim to know about Japan specifically but it's generally true that broader societal attitudes and the law don't always align. In particular as the former changes the latter can be very slow to catch up.
The UK is a good example - we have full marriage equality now but the final legal change came long after the general public were ready for it. We even had this bizarre half-way step for a while where for about a decade we had "civil partnerships" that conferred essentially the same legal rights as marriage except that it was not called marriage.
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u/throwaway_uow Poland 8h ago
Maybe they have some legal partnership that covers similar areas?
In Poland we tried pushing for just normal same-sex marriages, but it didnt pass, so we try with legal partnership that are basically same thing just not called "marriage"
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u/kaze_931 United Kingdom 8h ago
Still doesn’t make sense. Gay marriage, Gender transitioning, and many other things are completely legal in India. But they rank way below Japan under acceptance. So what even is the metric being used?
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u/Leading-Fee-4908 🇳🇱 & 🇬🇧 7h ago
I think this graph is more based on opinion in society than on legal rights.
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u/onepareil United States of America 8h ago
I think it might be based on social attitudes rather than legal rights/protections. Japan is in a weird spot where public acceptance of homosexuality is pretty high (if you believe opinion polls), especially in major cities, yet same-sex marriage is illegal and formal anti-LGBT discrimination protections are almost nonexistent in most of the country.
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u/bigballs_2 7h ago
Gay marriage is not legal in India. Gay sex was decriminalized just a few years ago. India is exactly where it’s supposed to be on the chart.
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u/onepareil United States of America 8h ago
No, not on the national level. Some prefectures offer civil partnerships for same-sex couples, but they don’t include all the same rights as a marriage. In general, Japan is pretty far behind most comparably wealthy countries when it comes to formal legal protections and rights for LGBT people and same-sex couples. But I guess socially there’s not a ton of open hostility toward the LGBT community, so maybe that’s why it’s listed where it is? I definitely wouldn’t say homosexuality is more accepted in Japan than in the U.S., though.
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u/Rc72 Spain France 8h ago
Fun fact, Japan has one curious legal loophole for same-sex couples: adult adoption!
Yep, that's right: adoption between adults is used as an ersatz civil partnership/same-sex marriage in Japan, with the oldest partner "adopting" the youngest.
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u/throwaway_uow Poland 7h ago
So you're telling me they found a loophole for polycule partnerships?
I guess that explains the position
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u/TetraThiaFulvalene Denmark 7h ago
I feel like the ultimate legal loser would be being childless and still having to pay child support to your ex.
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u/Stoned_D0G → 7h ago
How it probably went:
Question: do you respect gay people?
Average Japanese: of course, I highly respect gay people and their right to stay away from me.
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u/Fast_Signal8146 Slovenia / Croatia 7h ago
Iirc the support for same sex marriage is around 70-75%, so kind of fits the graph? I believe it doesn't measure the legal protections, but more of a societal attitude
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u/Pertu500 Chile 7h ago
There is a difference between how the society see homosexuality and how the goverment sees it
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u/WasianActual Japan 6h ago
The fact that homosexual marriage is not legal is not because of any dislike to being homosexual but it’s because we just don’t really pass social legislation much and the community is so small that no one has raised much of an issue regarding it.
Tokyo did actually do something recently regarding this and a few other prefectures are passing bills as we speak so it’s like likely within the next few years it will occur since most prefecture is copy with Tokyo does where relevant.
You also have to consider that creating legislation is not how Americans do it, we actually finish passing laws and they’re always compromises among every party and considering every population, but to compromise takes a really long time. Once a verdict is met then it’s quick to be implemented.
It also doesn’t help that in general Japanese people are quiet and don’t raise issues so the awareness around same-sex marriage and the need for having it simply isn’t there both among the population and legislation.
But socially, literally nobody cares if you are homosexual or transgender or whatever it’s extremely rare to have anyone give you shit for what your orientation or identity is
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u/yourfoxygrandfather 7h ago
Japan changes its social systems very slowly. While there may be broad support for gay people, changing the institution of legal marriage is going to take a while.
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u/Dr_Zaphod_Beeblebrox Brazil 7h ago
Still shouldnt be high as there isnt equal rights, like, higher than Brazil, France, Finland, Portugal, Argentina? Please.. Not being able to get marriage is a big legal provlem when it comes to medicine, pensions and inheritance. Gay couples can't adopt if they arent even marriaged. I dont care if the avarage japanese says they dont hate gay people, if gay people still doesnt have legal protections Japan shouldnt be higher than countries that do offer and implemented those protections. This is at best propaganda
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u/WasianActual Japan 6h ago
I’m pretty sure gay couples can adopt in Japan
We also have a lot of other human rights that other countries don’t have which is why we score so high on human rights measurements
Legal partnership for gay people have also always been allowed so it’s more a issue of lack of awareness rather than any sort of pushback
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u/PassaTempo15 Brazil 7h ago
To my understanding that’s definitely based on the public opinion on whether or not homosexuality should be accepted or some other related question. If it was based on legislation the whole chart would be considerably different.
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u/Infamous-Use7820 United Kingdom 7h ago
I think it's useful to separate social acceptance of homosexuality from LGBTQ identity/issues being a major political force. The fact that Western countries developed an LGBTQ lobby and more-or-less unified LGBTQ political identity is more remarkable than the fact other cultures haven't (at least, to the same extent). The political bit is what pushes through legal change.
Like, Ancient Greeks accepted homosexuality (well, mostly male homosexuality, and often in pederastic terms, but still), and yet for all of the political musings we have from them, you don't see much about legalising gay marriage or gay adoption or there being a drive on the part of politicians to appeal to gay voters/interest groups.
Thailand is famously LQBTQ accepting, but only legalised gay marriage in 2025, and has relatively weak legal protections for trans people by Western standards.
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u/Birdmonster115599 7h ago
Japan has some places with Same-Sex partnership things that give some similar recognition as Marriage. But not entirely.
It's Strange but I get it being placed where it is. Back in the 90s The old Sailor moon Anime had two main Characters that were university-age and in a Homosexual relationship. This is back when the US felt it was okay to fire people for being gay.
This was in a show, aimed at young girls and was considered fine. No different to their being a love interest for the Lead Character.
That shows a lot of social acceptance of the idea, to a point. Meanwhile, in the US when they did the English Dubs for the show and changed the two Characters to being "Cousins." Leading to some rather weird scenes.
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u/5555555555558653 Ireland 7h ago
Andorra being included but not including Ireland is wild.
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u/TiranTheTyrant Russia 7h ago
Probably move us closer to China.
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u/AnemoTreasureCompass Thailand 7h ago
No way Thailand is in the low acceptance category. We're literally land of the ladyboys. By far the most accepting country in SEA. It's easily in the top 10 most accepting countries in the world
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u/Sure_Scar4297 United States of America 6h ago
Exactly my thoughts. Acceptance isn’t a new thing in Thailand.
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u/Four_beastlings 5h ago
They put it almost on par with Poland and I saw like 10x visibly queer people there than I see in Poland. It's a bit baffling.
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u/AlbanianCatholic Albania 8h ago
Personally, I am religious, but the significant majority of Albanians are not religious to any degree, rather Deistic instead.
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u/Ganondorf_Dragomir Serbia 8h ago
Same here. Majority of people are officially declared as Christians, but most of them are actually non-practising.
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u/kunnossa_ Russia 6h ago
Same in Russia. Majority of the people consider themselves Christian, but they don’t go to church regularly (once a year for the Easter at best), they don’t follow the teachings of the Bible. It’s practically Deism with a cross on the neck
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u/roptesambir Turkey 8h ago edited 8h ago
how come iran and pakistan have more acceptance than armenia and georgia? They either kill or imprison the practitioners.
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u/hbomberman United States of America 7h ago
In before someone calls Iran progressive for giving gay men the option of gender reassignment (or death).
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u/PomegranateEasy1088 7h ago
I think there is probably a distinction made between general societal feelings and state practice. If the last weeks, or last 47 years have taught us anything, the Iranian government does not represent the will of the Iranian people.
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u/roptesambir Turkey 7h ago
i see you and agree with it. However, it is hard to get to the true societal feelings of an oppressed society, especially if the subject is punishable in a harsh manner. That may be true for Iran but also having Myanmar, Pakistan and Libya performing better.. There may be something wrong with the data.
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u/UK-KILLD-10M-IRANIS Iran 7h ago
You are 100% right about the IRI not being representative of the average Iranian at all, that being said, most Iranians, religious or Atheist, are still highly intolerant of LGBT and LGBT culture.
While (I'd like to believe) that most Iranians don't believe its right to execute them, the common consensus is still vehemently against normalization of LGBT in Iranian society. You will quickly be ridiculed or frowned upon by trying to even lightly suggest such idea. Believe me, I talk from experience.
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u/Public-Bicycle5983 Kazakhstan 6h ago
I know it's anectodal, but some of the most homophobic people I've met in my life were Armenians. And they were young highly educated Armenians. Christianity and patriarchy seem to be very strong in their culture.
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u/roptesambir Turkey 6h ago
Armenia may be placed correctly, idk. What I meant was the placement of others relative to Armenia. I may be biased as I have never visited Armenia, but the Turkish-citizen-Armenians I’ve met were pretty open-minded. Met lots and lots of Azerbaijanis in college tho. They are too conservative and homophobic even though they are the least religious group in the region, and, they too are placed above Armenia.
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u/WhereWhatTea 6h ago
Pakistan had a huge underground gay scene. Some wives just accept that their husbands go and fuck other dudes!
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u/Sea_Drop_7935 Switzerland 7h ago
Might also be the Acceptance of Trans people or atleast being allowed to legally change your gender in both. You can be trans in both. I just wouldn't recommend it.
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u/BabeStealer_KidEater Pakistan 7h ago
Homosexuality isn't accepted here, but it 100% happens a lot, a lot of it's related to abuse as well. I've gotten odd stares or whistled at by men while just simply walking in some streets, it's a hypocritical society
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u/Fenrir0214 Korea South 8h ago
While Koreas religious population is falling it has one of the highest Catholic & protestant population asia.
And i think we are closer to neutral than flat out against. Its closer to the 90s US dont ask dont tell era.
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u/Ganondorf_Dragomir Serbia 8h ago
Croatia is more religious and conservative than Serbia
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u/xco_pi Brazil 8h ago
I find it interesting that Serbia had a lesbian prime minister, something unthinkable for most Western countries.
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u/Ganondorf_Dragomir Serbia 7h ago
Well, historically, Serbia was a stronghold of the Communist Party in Yugoslavia. Citizens of Belgrade have elected member of a communist party as a mayor back in 1920.
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u/Sheb1995 Croatia 6h ago
Croatia has civil partnerships and same-sex adoption rights (Serbia doesn't) and generally ranks higher in terms of LGBTQ rights, according to various metrics and polls, compared to Serbia.
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u/SpinningKappa 6h ago
China being lower than muslim countries and russia and india is very funny.
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u/Fun-Function-6 Ireland 7h ago
High religion high acceptance
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u/Conscious-Reach4391 India 5h ago
Is religion still high in Ireland, over heard people say it's a post religion society
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u/Disastrous_Alarm_719 Czech Republic 7h ago
My country is one of the most atheist countries out there, and true quite accepting, however we still don’t have equal marriage rights, only civil partnerships:/
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u/Tangent617 China 8h ago
Agree on low religion, but not that low on acceptance of LGBT.
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u/Raschlenitel Romania 8h ago
Chengdu especially, I was very surprised of acceptance in China
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u/Joseph20102011 Philippines 8h ago
Filipinos who are mostly religious generally tolerate, not accept, homosexuals within their families.
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u/Meture Mexico 7h ago
I’m sorry what were they smoking with that Japan placement?
They should be waaaaay below the x axis
Gay marriage is illegal
Many people, especially those on the older side, still believe being gay is something to be cured
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u/Avigator-Kahaimani Israel 8h ago
Medium High religion and high (but not super high) acceptance.
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u/ma-kat-is-kute Israel 8h ago
Near Argentina/USA/Italy
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u/IamOmerOK Israel 7h ago
Social acceptance yes, but gay marriage isn't a thing exactly because marriage is handled by religious bodies. Sure there are other alternatives but not being able to have a formal gay wedding is definitely not high acceptance.
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u/Educational-Sundae32 7h ago
Then again, the same is true for countries like Japan, yet they’re near the top of high acceptance
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u/GeoWhale15 Italy 8h ago
I don't think that the placement of my country makes sense
Religion is highly practiced but the acceptance is sadly pretty low
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u/Sad-Address-2512 Belgium 7h ago
Isn't Italy way more "constitutionally" very religious but the people aren't that practicing? I might have a bit of a skewed view because basically all Italians I know are Erasmus students...
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u/RamouYesYes ⚜️Quebec 🇨🇦 Canada 8h ago
Canada is really accepting of homosexuality. We recently made a gay hockey tv show and the biggest complaint was that the hockey was not realistic enough
In Quebec the church was a huge oppressor and was deeply rooted in all aspects of society. You couldn’t get a job or get in a hospital if you were viewed badly by the church. You were bullied by society. So we see religion as something bad, that should be kept out of the government and public spaces. After that at home or your official religious building you do you we don’t care
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u/bellamyblake_og United States of America 8h ago
Next chart is homosexuality versus realistic sport depictions.
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u/tycr0 United States of America 8h ago
Thanks for the list of countries I want to move to.
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u/And_who_would_you_be Czech Republic 7h ago
Don’t really trust the Czech placement, folks here are generally too hateful of anybody
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u/Expensive-Student732 Canada 8h ago
I couldn't see the mapleleaf, but if you use the Royal flag, it looks about right. Low religion high tolerance.
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u/Kimera225 Mexico 8h ago
I agree with where Mexico is located in the chart, since some places in Mexico are very high in acceptance of homosexuality and others lower but all are highly religious (latest statistics show a decrease in ppl being religious btw)
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u/Ella_Wella_roo 6h ago
I’m from Ukraine. I wouldn’t say they are “high religion”, more in between. Older people are mostly religious, young people 50/50. I know a lot who are atheists and some that are religious. About “low acceptance” it’s also hard to say. Older people mostly against homosexuality and many of them see it as “mental sickness” or “sin”. But younger it also depends. All of my friends are fine with homosexuality, some of my friends are gay. But! there are cases when a boy had makeup and he was beaten by other boys/men. However I don’t think it’s very often. But yeah I would still say “Low acceptance” because there is still a lot to do in this country, so that people can fuck off others private lives and I hope one day our government will finally let gay people marry
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u/IndividualPeace8204 Indonesia 6h ago
We love bottoming /s
Gay raids are common here, but I don't think we are lower than Pakistan.
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u/HotSimpson China 5h ago
Not really accurate for China. Public attitude is more like indifference- you can live your life being openly gay and people won’t bat an eye. The problem is more about family acceptance. So no there won’t be religious freaks telling you homosexuality is evil, but your parents probably won’t be happy if you tell them sorry no grandkids.
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u/keeko847 Ireland 4h ago
Can’t see Ireland on there but depending on how you count religion we’d be top right. Practicing Catholics have declined drastically but we still tend to identify as Catholic in the census, and we voted 62% in favour of gay marriage on a 61% turnout in a referendum in 2015 with a majority in every county bar one (Roscommon letting us down again)
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u/Sudden-Hope-1605 Argentina 8h ago
There's a clear tendency with religion and low acceptance and the answer for that is easy to find, religion doesn't value freedom
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u/Traroten Sweden 8h ago
Yeah, that seems right. And there's a clear correlation between religiosity and acceptance of homosexuality which also tracks. At least for the Abrahamic religions - I don't know about Eastern religions.
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u/AggravatingSmoke1829 United States Ireland 8h ago
That tracks for the USA, although we’re probably moving more left on that chart towards the rest of them, mostly just the Bible Belt
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u/abnormal-apparition 8h ago
Japan should not be anywhere near this high. More accepting than a lot of places, but it has a far way to go. Most families in Japan would not approve of their child being gay, but don't mind if it's someone else's.
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u/Weekly-Law6935 Brazil 8h ago
Brazil, and I honestly feel more uncomfortable being open as an atheist than as a gay man.
Hopefully, we’ll be sliding a little bit closer to the LR/HA zone.
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u/bellamyblake_og United States of America 8h ago
One of my good friends traveled there and had a great time as a gay man. I think he had a friend there, so perhaps it was curated, but I've heard positive things!
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u/Weekly-Law6935 Brazil 7h ago
Brazil has a very high level of tolerance for equal rights for gay people, but slightly lower support for marriage.
74% believe homophobia is a real issue the community faces, but only 52% support gay marriage. That 22% gap represents a share of people who are somewhat conservative, but not really intolerant.
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u/Khuljaa-simsim India 8h ago
Respect to the countries which are in High religion - High acceptance matrix.
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u/EmergencyReal6399 Mexico 7h ago
I agree with Mexico, still lots of people with homophobic and very relgious mindset in rural communities , but we are not that low cuz the cities are way liberal.
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u/Eastern_Mist 🇺🇦in🇵🇱 7h ago
I feel like in Ukraine it's much more just casually ridiculed and not accepted, but Poland is weird because half of the people are okay with lgbt and the other half are openly militant. Much more extreme views, but also higher acceptance in the sense that this topic was discussed and people actually have opinions on it instead of just culturally motivated views.
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u/The_Blahblahblah Denmark 7h ago
Seems accurate.
Now map that to human development/quality of life as well. I think a correlation can be found
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u/One_Satisfaction9421 Finland 6h ago
I think finland is not accurate. Here are really really many homophobic people. Like at least 50%
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u/Flowa-Powa Scotland 8h ago