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France: Clear majority has negative perceptions mainly of
Muslims and Romani people
10.04.2015 20:37
A clear majority of French people (82 %) continue to view
Romani people negatively, while 74 % of French people view Muslims negatively
as well. The minority group that is best-received in the country is that of
Jewish people, but prejudices against them persist as well, such as the
sentiment that they wield too much power and that they have a specific
relationship to money.
Overall, according to researchers, the tolerance of the
French toward local minorities has improved. The number of people who do not
consider themselves to be racist rose this year for the first time since 2010
to 43 %.
Another phenomenon is the fact that more French residents
say they perceive secularism to be a protection against Islam. Seven out of 10
French people are also of the opinion that there are too many immigrants in
France, according to the authors of a report on French tolerance of minorities
three months after the bloody attacks perpetrated by Islamist terrorists in
Paris.
"In response to those dramatic events, social
relationships have become stronger, not weaker," said Christine Lazerges,
chair of the National Advisory Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH
). Similar surveys in the Czech Republic usually ask
respondents how they would respond if a neighbor of theirs was of a certain
nationality.
Traditionally the foreign nationals most liked by
inhabitants of the Czech Republic are Slovaks - 90 % say they would not have a
problem with a Slovak neighbor. The Czechs also perceive Americans, the English
and the French as not problematic.
At the other end of the scale for Czechs are Afghans (18 %
acceptable), Arabs (21 % acceptable), and Chechens (19 % acceptable). The
clearly least-liked group, however, is that of Romani people - only 11 % of
respondents consider them not problematic, while 36 % of respondents say they
would be "completely unacceptable" neighbors.
ČTK
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, translated by Gwendolyn Albert
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