I don't like the term beliefs much... to me it implies a view of the world that is impervious to logic and which cannot/will-not change.
However, what I was going to say is that I think my position is derived (usually) by meshing data from opposing points of view. No big deal that.
But the interesting thing (to me) is how my view might be different if I resided in another country, where the range of views was more or less - or arranged about a different central axis. That is, what would I believe if I only read the newspapers available in country X. Where X is any country, democratic or not.
So a 'middle view' in the US is different from a 'middle view' in Aust. or UK... or Singapore... or China.
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