Most and Least racist countries on the planet

[the next guy]

A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries

If we treat this data as indicative of racial tolerance, then we might conclude that people in the bluer countries are the least likely to express racist attitudes, while the people in red countries are the most likely.

The survey asked respondents in more than 80 different countries to identify kinds of people they would not want as neighbors. Some respondents, picking from a list, chose “people of a different race.” The more frequently that people in a given country say they don’t want neighbors from other races, the economists reasoned, the less racially tolerant you could call that society. (The study concluded that economic freedom had no correlation with racial tolerance, but it does appear to correlate with tolerance toward homosexuals.)

• Anglo and Latin countries most tolerant. People in the survey were most likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor in the United Kingdom and its Anglo former colonies (the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and in Latin America. The only real exceptions were oil-rich Venezuela, where income inequality sometimes breaks along racial lines, and the Dominican Republic, perhaps because of its adjacency to troubled Haiti. Scandinavian countries also scored high.

• India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong by far the least tolerant. In only three of 81 surveyed countries, more than 40 percent of respondents said they would not want a neighbor of a different race. This included 43.5 percent of Indians, 51.4 percent of Jordanians and an astonishingly high 71.8 percent of Hong Kongers and 71.7 percent of Bangladeshis.

• Wide, interesting variation across Europe. Immigration and national identity are big, touchy issues in much of Europe, where racial make-ups are changing. Though you might expect the richer, better-educated Western European nations to be more tolerant than those in Eastern Europe, that’s not exactly the case. France appeared to be one of the least racially tolerant countries on the continent, with 22.7 percent saying they didn’t want a neighbor of another race. Former Soviet states such as Belarus and Latvia scored as more tolerant than much of Europe. Many in the Balkans, perhaps after years of ethnicity-tinged wars, expressed lower racial tolerance.

• The Middle East not so tolerant. Immigration is also a big issue in this region, particularly in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which often absorb economic migrants from poorer neighbors.

• Racial tolerance low in diverse Asian countries. Nations such as Indonesia and the Philippines, where many racial groups often jockey for influence and have complicated histories with one another, showed more skepticism of diversity. This was also true, to a lesser extent, in China and Kyrgyzstan. There were similar trends in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

• South Korea, not very tolerant, is an outlier. Although the country is rich, well-educated, peaceful and ethnically homogenous – all trends that appear to coincide with racial tolerance – more than one in three South Koreans said they do not want a neighbor of a different race. This may have to do with Korea’s particular view of its own racial-national identity as unique – studied by scholars such as B.R. Myers – and with the influx of Southeast Asian neighbors and the nation’s long-held tensions with Japan.

• Pakistan, remarkably tolerant, also an outlier. Although the country has a number of factors that coincide with racial intolerance – sectarian violence, its location in the least-tolerant region of the world, low economic and human development indices – only 6.5 percent of Pakistanis objected to a neighbor of a different race. This would appear to suggest Pakistanis are more racially tolerant than even the Germans or the Dutch.

 

[ugksam]

id love to see a state by state chart for the US

 

[Richard Wright]

No sample size or margin of error or anything, let alone accounting for people in the U.S. knowing not to say that regardless.

And asked to pick among whom?A felon, a sex offender and someone of another race?

 

[BLAZO da GAWD]

Map is complete bullshyt.

 

[ThugLife]

These studies are always bullshyt and have microscopic sample sizes

 

[alpo]

Smh bs

 

[Premeditated]

wtf
Spanish people more tolerant than French? But then again, Le Pen got over 22% of the public vote this past election.

but I'm still calling bullshyt on this map.

 

[Non Sequitur]

Are the blue countries the least racist, or just the most full of shyt?

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

A more comprehensive test might prove to be really interesting... I'm kind of confused about India, though. Most Indians I've met have been pretty tolerant. Then again, that's not really a scientific study, so yeah.

 

[Fredrick Thuglas]

Most of the Blue countries are places that are mostly white populated...hmmm

So I guess they're saying that White people are more racially tolerant...:thinking:























GET THE fukk OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!!!

As everyone else said already, this is complete B.S.

 

[wutang512]

at the usa

 

[Iamnoone]

So according to this map, South Africans don't mind living next door to "kaffirs" :pope:

 

[Anti-Anime]

US should be the bright light blue at best.