Joichi Ito

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

Japanese Businessman

Joy Page

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

American Actress

John Skipper

With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.

American Businessman

Thomas E. Mann

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

American Sociologist

Jonathan Van Ness

From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something.

American Entertainer

Pete Gallego

As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.

American Politician

Pieter Zeeman

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

Dutch Physicist

Bernice King

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

American

Rahul Gandhi

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

Indian Politician

Leslie Odom, Jr.

It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.

American Actor

Used to describe increasing gaps in political ideas, often causing social tensions.

Modern Politics

Ensure context aligns with social or political divisions to use this term appropriately.

Context Sensitivity

When used in social contexts, it implies strong, possibly negative emotions and conflict.

Intensity

Mostly found in scientific texts; not commonly used in everyday conversation.

Technical Term

Used to describe very specific phenomena, especially in light and sound.

Precision

Refers to a physical property important in the functioning of electronic devices.

Material Feature

Use it to discuss the behavior of electrical components or materials.

Technical Detail

Talks about growing inequality or separation in society, used in academic or formal discussions.

Societal Divides

Often linked with discussions about wealth distribution and social justice.

Socio-economic Context

 And just as I learned to do, we routinely refuse to acknowledge the flaws in our positions or the merits in our opponent's. Compromise is anathema. We even target people on our own side when they dare to question the party line. This path has brought us cruel, sniping, deepening polarization,

I grew up in the...

 what economists call employment polarization, is that it knocks out rungs in the economic ladder, shrinks the size of the middle class and threatens to make us a more stratified society. On the one hand, a set of highly paid, highly educated professionals doing interesting work,

Will automation take...

 accuracy soon we'll be measuring the polarization as well as the temperature as a cosmologists I have the privilege of trying to understand what the universe was like in the beginning how it changes with time and I get to map the incredible journey it has taken to get us here

The making of cosmic...

 is it helps get rid of reflections and it does that by limiting the kinds of wavelengths that can come into an image and it screws right onto the front of the lens right here so what you do to change the polarization of the light is you just twist the polarizer right and

Photo Walk in Napa...

 And what we see around the world today is a tragic polarization, a failure to have dialogue between the extremes in politics, and a gap in terms of that liberal center ground that can encourage communication and a shared understanding. We might not achieve that today,

Why Brexit happened --...

 when you try to walk on water? And why do lakes freeze from the top down in winter? In a word, the answer to all these questions is polarity. Water is a simple molecule made up of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, but it is essential to life.

How polarity makes water...

 it can lead to policies that aren’t grounded in truth or reason. This problem isn’t new— political identities have been around for centuries. But studies show that partisan polarization has increased dramatically in the last few decades.

Do politics make us...

 I can only find cheese. I'm sorry. So there it is. Block reform. Because there is an economy here, an economy of influence, an economy with lobbyists at the center which feeds on polarization. It feeds on dysfunction.

We the People, and the...

 I felt I had to say yes. I had no illusions that I would fix it all, but when offered the opportunity to help steer the ship in a better direction, I had to at least try. I didn't work directly on polarization,

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 So you probably have the sense, as most people do, that polarization is getting worse in our country, that the divide between the left and the right is as bad as it's been in really any of our lifetimes.

Polarization