World's 4Th Most Racist Country - India

[Mehtab Singh]

Britain is one of the most racially tolerant countries on the planet, a survey claims. The global social attitudes study claims that the most racially intolerant populations are all in the developing world, with Bangladesh, Jordan and India in the top five. By contrast, the study of 80 countries over three decades found Western countries were most accepting of other cultures with Britain, the U.S., Canada and Australia more tolerant than anywhere else.

The data came from the World Value Survey, which measured the social attitudes of people in different countries, as reported by the Washington Post. The survey asked individuals what types of people they would refuse to live next to, and counted how many chose the option 'people of a different race' as a percentage for each country.

Researchers have suggested that societies where more people do not want neighbours from other races can be considered less racially tolerant. The country with the highest proportion of 'intolerant' people who wanted neighbours similar to them was Hong Kong, where 71.8 per cent of the population would refuse to live next to someone of a different race. Next were Bangladesh on 71.7 per cent, Jordan on 51.4 per cent and India with 43.5 per cent. Racist views are strikingly rare in the U.S., according to the survey, which claims that only 3.8 per cent of residents are reluctant to have a neighbour of another race.

Other English-speaking countries once part of the British Empire shared the same tolerant attitude - fewer than five per cent of Britons, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders showed signs of racism. People in the UK are also tolerant of other differences such as speaking a foreign language or practising an alternative religion - for example, fewer than two per cent of Britons would object to having neighbours of a different faith to them.

Similarly, fewer than one in 20 people in most South American countries admitted harbouring prejudice against other races. The Middle East, which is currently dealing with large numbers of low-skilled immigrants from south Asia, seems to be a hotbed of racial tension, however.

Europe is remarkably split - the west of the continent is generally more tolerant than the east, but France is a striking outlier with 22.7 per cent of the French rejecting neighbourhood diversity. Some have pointed out problems in the survey data, claiming that because the polls span a long period of time they are an unreliable guide to current attitudes.

However, a more serious flaw could be the fact that in most Western countries racism is so taboo than many people will hide their intolerant views and lie to the questioners. Max Fisher of the Washington Post suggested that maybe 'Americans are conditioned by their education and media to keep these sorts of racial preferences private, i.e. to lie about them on surveys, in a way that Indians might not be'.

THE LEAST RACIALLY TOLERANT COUNTRIES

40% + (of individuals surveyed would not want a person of another race as a neighbour)
India, Jordan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong

30 - 39.9%
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea

20 - 39.9%
France, Turkey, Bulgaria, Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Zambia, Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines

THE MOST TOLERANT COUNTRIES

0 to 4.9%
United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Australia, New Zealand

5 - 9.9%
Chile, Peru, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Belarus, Croatia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa

10 - 14.9%
Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia

15 - 19.9%
Venezuela, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Macedonia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Russia, China

Source: World Values Survey

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325502/Map-shows-worlds-racist-countries-answers-surprise-you.html

[Jonny101]

According to this, Pakistan is one of the most tolerant countries in the world when it comes to race and India despite it's diversity is amongst the most racist. Wonder why this difference.

[Bimringham9Singh]

if you notice all countries who have have economic migration are the least racist, and countries to where there is little or no economic migration are most racist.

All its showing is the people who have exposure to difference races are most tolerance.

And people with no exposure are more fearful of the unknown..

that's the truth- but for DM readers thats too boring of a story!!

[LegalSingh]

If Australia's one of the least racist then I'm a monkey's uncle :blink2:

[Jonny101]

If Australia's one of the least racist then I'm a monkey's uncle :blink2:

yeah that got me thinking too. Of all the countries how is Australia on the list of the most tolerant countries? something's not right.

[TheFancyBanana]

LOL. USA and Australia are one of most tolerant countries! Russia and Romania are 15-29%. This should be taken with a pinch of salt. We don't know how reliable these stats are. How did they do this survey? How many people did they ask? Where did they do the survey, in one place or all over the country? If they surveyed say 1,000 people in India, how is that representive of a country that has a billion+ people. Where did they go to in the USA? How about the middle of America? Of course the DM would get their hands on this. Also Russia is supposed to be so tolerant, "the director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, Alexander Brod, stated that surveys show xenophobia and other racist expressions are prevalent in 50 percent of Russians". Same place where a football club can't buy non-white players because the fans don't want any.

[VanHelsingh]

yeah that got me thinking too. Of all the countries how is Australia on the list of the most tolerant countries? something's not right.

Yeah, the situation on the ground either through personal experience or anecdotally would seem to suggest this survey is having a laugh.

[proud2bejatt]

The west has an attitude of assilmation while the east of war.

The west wants you to be like them, even if you don't look. While east is get away.

43% is surprising. Thought it would be much higher, again though it isn't even about sample size.

In a hetereogenous populaton like Iceland a smaller size is ok. but India is the world's most diverse country.

The people in India who would even know what race is, are more likely to be westernized.

India's actions, suggest it only wants the cremation/burial grounds of others as neighbours.

[garch]

China/Russia/Poland amongst the most tolerant??

Although I dont neccesarily disagree with any of the points above I would take any `stats' published by the far right minded daily mail with a pinch of salt.