The Washington Post: Using the World Values Survey, two Swedish economists evaluated racial tolerance globally. The survey asked responders in 80 different countries to identify the different kinds of people they would not want as neighbors. According to the survey, Anglo and Latin countries were the most tolerant and likely to embrace a neighbor of a different race. The least racially tolerant countries were India, Jordan, and Hong Kong. There was an interesting variation throughout Europe while South Korea and Pakistan were considered outliers. Critiques of the study have pointed out that the survey question gets to personal biases and does not reflect countries as a whole. The other criticism is that the United States and India are both large in population and population density so the results are skewed. However, if we treat this data as indicative of anything it is that red countries are more likely to express racial attitudes while blue countries are not.
Emily Goodfellow (#7)
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