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

[Bitchcraft]

 

 

 

 When two Swedish economists set out to examine whether economic freedom made people any more or less racist, they knew how they would gauge economic freedom, but they needed to find a way to measure a country's level of racial tolerance. So they turned to something called the World Values Survey, which has been measuring global attitudes and opinions for decades.

Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks, the Swedish economists found one that, they believe, could be a pretty good indicator of tolerance for other races. 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.)

Unfortunately, the Swedish economists did not include all of the World Values Survey data in their final research paper. So I went back to the source, compiled the original data and mapped it out on the infographic above. In the bluer countries, fewer people said they would not want neighbors of a different race; in red countries, more people did.

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.

Compare the results to this map of the world's most and least diverse countries.

Before we dive into the data, a couple of caveats. First, it's entirely likely that some people lied when answering this question; it would be surprising if they hadn't. But the operative question, unanswerable, is whether people in certain countries were more or less likely to answer the question honestly. For example, while the data suggest that Swedes are more racially tolerant than Finns, it's possible that the two groups are equally tolerant but that Finns are just more honest. The willingness to state such a preference out loud, though, might be an indicator of racial attitudes in itself. Second, the survey is not conducted every year; some of the results are very recent and some are several years old, so we're assuming the results are static, which might not be the case. 

 

 

 

 

 India and Jordan by far the least tolerant. In only two 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 and 51.4 percent of Jordanian. (Note: World Values’ data for Bangladesh and Hong Kong appear to have been inverted, with in fact only 28.3 and 26.8 percent, respectively, having indicated they would not want a neighbor of a different race. Please see correction at the bottom of this post.)

• 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. 

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.

 

 

 

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/

 

 

I find these results kinda crazy lol. How is Pakistan more racially tolerant than the US or other countries.

And how is France more racist than other western countries like Italy or spain lol or other eastern countries 

South Korea wasn't very surprising lol

Any input? 

[Thotcahontas]

OMG I spot barbados there we are outside the island chain

 

HEY LITTLE DOT!

 

HEYYY

[xharuharux]

wow @ india 

 

i wonder why 

[Mischo]

hmmmm???

 

tbh I also think you should take wether a country is homogenous or a "melting pot" into consideration .. each country has different history with other races

[aaaaaa]

i wanna move to sk to piss everyone off being their neighbour

[swiftswitchsurf]

 

 

 

 When two Swedish economists set out to examine whether economic freedom made people any more or less racist, they knew how they would gauge economic freedom, but they needed to find a way to measure a country's level of racial tolerance. So they turned to something called the World Values Survey, which has been measuring global attitudes and opinions for decades.

Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks, the Swedish economists found one that, they believe, could be a pretty good indicator of tolerance for other races. 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.)

Unfortunately, the Swedish economists did not include all of the World Values Survey data in their final research paper. So I went back to the source, compiled the original data and mapped it out on the infographic above. In the bluer countries, fewer people said they would not want neighbors of a different race; in red countries, more people did.

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.

Compare the results to this map of the world's most and least diverse countries.

Before we dive into the data, a couple of caveats. First, it's entirely likely that some people lied when answering this question; it would be surprising if they hadn't. But the operative question, unanswerable, is whether people in certain countries were more or less likely to answer the question honestly. For example, while the data suggest that Swedes are more racially tolerant than Finns, it's possible that the two groups are equally tolerant but that Finns are just more honest. The willingness to state such a preference out loud, though, might be an indicator of racial attitudes in itself. Second, the survey is not conducted every year; some of the results are very recent and some are several years old, so we're assuming the results are static, which might not be the case. 

 

 

 

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/

 

 

I find these results kinda crazy lol. How is Pakistan more racially tolerant than the US or other countries.

And how is France more racist than other western countries like Italy or spain lol or other eastern countries 

South Korea wasn't very surprising lol

Any input? 

 

Have you heard of the situation in france with muslims in the past couple of months?

 

France is intolerant as fuck

[Bitchcraft]

Have you heard of the situation in france with muslims in the past couple of months?

 

France is intolerant as fuck

 

dude i live in france lol, and i ain't white

so i know exactly how it is in France right now lol

[Property of Goddess Irene]

I wonder why Muslim countries are usually less tolerant. Hmm... Doesn't Allah teach something about accepting anyone?

[swiftswitchsurf]

dude i live in france lol, and i ain't white

so i know exactly how it is in France right now lol

 

then why're you surprised? None of the other European countries have had as much racial tension in the past year.

 

Not even Ukraine, and that's one glorious fuck up.

[yeokdae]

i can't with all the times people are shocked by how racially intolerant France can be sometimes.

[indiechingu]

hmmmm???

 

tbh I also think you should take wether a country is homogenous or a "melting pot" into consideration .. each country has different history with other races

 

^^^

 

and also

 

i can't with all the times people are shocked by how racially intolerant France can be sometimes.

[indigo]

The thing is, Americans would never admit to it. Even anonymously. Very few here want to admit they're racist.  Self reported data has limits.

[Bitchcraft]

I wonder why Muslim countries are usually less tolerant. Hmm... Doesn't Allah teach something about accepting anyone?

 

Tbh, most muslim countries are arab and arabs have a long history of racism against black people. it's not about religion, it's something else. But yes it's a shame because Islam says that muslims should treat other muslims as their brothers no matter the race, but people are dumb. Don't blame it on the religion itself lol

 

Saudi arabia is a special case, the immigrants that go there to work bad jobs are poor and they don't treat them well because of social standing. They also have extreme pride in their race.

Anyways, that country is just shameful in so many ways, i could go on for hours. 

 

 

then why're you surprised? None of the other European countries have had as much racial tension in the past year.

 

Not even Ukraine, and that's one glorious fuck up.

 

Well i can feel the racism sometimes, and it's gotten a LOT worse over the years, it used to be sooo much better like 15 years ago in France.

And i mean, it's not as bad as what black people experience in the US. 

Also France mainly has a problem with islam. Islamophobia is rampant that's true. Black people are much MUCH better regarded here than arabs trust me lol

But yea, still nowhere near as bad as it is in Spain and Italy lol. The treatment moroccans get in Spain is straight up disgusting lol

[Mischo]

Tbh, most muslim countries are arab and arabs have a long history of racism against black people. it's not about religion, it's something else. But yes it's a shame because Islam says that muslims should treat other muslims as their brothers no matter the race, but people are dumb. Don't blame it on the religion itself lol

 

 

 

 

Well i can feel the

racism sometimes, and it's gotten a LOT worse over the years, it used to be sooo much better like 15 years ago in France.

But yea, still nowhere near as bad as it is in Spain and Italy lol. The treatment moroccans get in Spain is straight up disgusting lol

Arabs are not only racists, they're extremely nationalistics. With the recent influx of Syrian refugees (there have been more than a million refugees in Lebanon alone, and it's a tiny country with 4 million people lebanese), a lot of Lebanese have been showing a disgustig side to themselves, openly mocking them, rejecting them whenever they take a cap and so on.. tbh its disgusting

 

black people and SEA/SE is mainly because they only come here to do "cheap"work so they're seen like that.

 

tbh the world makes me sad sometimes :/

 

edit: tbh the entire EU was better 15 years ago.. if only muslims did not constantly commit crimes wether it's gang related or terrorism.. actually sat down and try to get an education, paying taxes, not constantly doing sheez to cheat of the government for money .. etc the relatiob could have been much better :/

[abra]

I think the reason France's numbers are so high have to do with all the tension in the last decade or so. Riots/protests (although that's about as French as it gets), le Pens, terrorist attacks etc

But yeah Spain and Italy seem more racist atleast on the surface

[monochrome.]

Yeah, the USA is definitely one of the most tolerant country in the world.

[nutella]

well this was interesting

curious about the countries in grey 

 

 

 

 

 When two Swedish economists set out to examine whether economic freedom made people any more or less racist, they knew how they would gauge economic freedom, but they needed to find a way to measure a country's level of racial tolerance. So they turned to something called the World Values Survey, which has been measuring global attitudes and opinions for decades.

Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks, the Swedish economists found one that, they believe, could be a pretty good indicator of tolerance for other races. 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.)

Unfortunately, the Swedish economists did not include all of the World Values Survey data in their final research paper. So I went back to the source, compiled the original data and mapped it out on the infographic above. In the bluer countries, fewer people said they would not want neighbors of a different race; in red countries, more people did.

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.

Compare the results to this map of the world's most and least diverse countries.

Before we dive into the data, a couple of caveats. First, it's entirely likely that some people lied when answering this question; it would be surprising if they hadn't. But the operative question, unanswerable, is whether people in certain countries were more or less likely to answer the question honestly. For example, while the data suggest that Swedes are more racially tolerant than Finns, it's possible that the two groups are equally tolerant but that Finns are just more honest. The willingness to state such a preference out loud, though, might be an indicator of racial attitudes in itself. Second, the survey is not conducted every year; some of the results are very recent and some are several years old, so we're assuming the results are static, which might not be the case. 

 

 

 

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/

 

 

I find these results kinda crazy lol. How is Pakistan more racially tolerant than the US or other countries.

And how is France more racist than other western countries like Italy or spain lol or other eastern countries 

South Korea wasn't very surprising lol

Any input? 

 

The US is deep blue which means 0-4.9% while pakistan got a 6.9% making it less tolerant than the US

[Bitchcraft]

well this was interesting

curious about the countries in grey 

 

 

The US is deep blue which means 0-4.9% while pakistan got a 6.9% making it less tolerant than the US

 

That's true, sorry. The difference should be bigger though, as Pakistan is just...

As for the US, you just know they lied lol

[sane]

I think the only real problem with this is they didn't take into account specific racial tensions. In some of those countries, a lot of the people who said "yes" were probably thinking of one specific race of people rather than all other races. I mean that's still intolerance and racism, but it'd be interesting to see how many people were only thinking of one or two races vs how many people were thinking of all races. Like I can imagine a lot of those Koreans for example weren't thinking "golly gee I sure hope a Spaniard doesn't move in next door", they were probably thinking "chinks go back to China"    

 

That aside, it does make sense that the countries that have a combination of a lot of tourism/immigration and a decent enough economy where a lot of people can afford to travel internationally themselves are mostly fairly tolerant. Exposure and all that.

 

 

 

That's true, sorry. The difference should be bigger though, as Pakistan is just...

As for the US, you just know they lied lol

 

They didn't lie. There are racists in the US, but they're a small but loud minority. If you have a crowd of 100 people and 3 of them are screaming obscenities, you're gonna pay the most attention to those three instead of the other 97 who are just being quiet and living their lives. That's why it seems like the US is so much more racist than it actually is.

[nutella]

That's true, sorry. The difference should be bigger though, as Pakistan is just...

As for the US, you just know they lied lol

 

then we can just assume everyone on this survey lied and the findings are not valid

you cant single out a country and be like they lied that is why they got that result. 

[Bitchcraft]

then we can just assume everyone on this survey lied and the findings are not valid

you cant single out a country and be like they lied that is why they got that result. 

 

Yes, i already questioned the results in the OP lol for France, spain, italy, eastern countries, Pakistan, US etc lol

I just posted the article, i didn't say i agree with it lol

[KaniPi]

I'm not really sure about that. It depends a lot on the person. I have actually been to Middle Eastern/South Asian (including India and Pakistan) countries and I have never experienced any racism. They've been friendly and very welcoming, I would say much more so than back home (UK). So, its down to personal experience. I would say they would be more tolerant simply due to curiosity. 

 

EDIT: I misread it, my bad lol. However, my first points still apply.

[nutella]

Yes, i already questioned the results in the OP lol for France, spain, italy, eastern countries, Pakistan, US etc lol

I just posted the article, i didn't say i agree with it lol

 

i actually found it very interesting. I mean there will always be a degree of unreliability on these surveys and we don't know specific details as to how it was conducted but overall it is very interesting imo 

i wonder if those who took the survey were actually representative of the population on each country? 

[Bitchcraft]

i actually found it very interesting. I mean there will always be a degree of unreliability on these surveys and we don't know specific details as to how it was conducted but overall it is very interesting imo 

i wonder if those who took the survey were actually representative of the population on each country? 

 

Two swedish economists did this project, they gave no info about what was the criteria for choosing respondants. :/

 As for the lying thing, the article itself addressed it in a disclaimer: (i posted it in the OP but it was under spoiler)

 

Before we dive into the data, a couple of caveats. First, it's entirely likely that some people lied when answering this question; it would be surprising if they hadn't. But the operative question, unanswerable, is whether people in certain countries were more or less likely to answer the question honestly. For example, while the data suggest that Swedes are more racially tolerant than Finns, it's possible that the two groups are equally tolerant but that Finns are just more honest. The willingness to state such a preference out loud, though, might be an indicator of racial attitudes in itself. Second, the survey is not conducted every year; some of the results are very recent and some are several years old, so we're assuming the results are static, which might not be the case.

 

[SleepingDragon]

That's true, sorry. The difference should be bigger though, as Pakistan is just...

As for the US, you just know they lied lol

 

LOL, they didn't lie.  It's just that each cases of race issues get significantly magnified in the U.S. than in other countries so you thought there are more people the U.S that are racists.

 

While in those less racially tolerant countries, it's a norm for their culture to be racist so cases didn't get reported in the news.