A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries…
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.)
only 6.5 percent of Pakistanis objected to a neighbor of a different race.
and 44 percent of indians objected to a neighbor of a different race.
Re: Amazing survey...Pak one of the most tolerant, india one of the least tolerant!
no survey is perfect and this one has many imprefections as well ...for example:
"It's entirely possible that we're seeing some version of this effect in the U.S.-India comparison; maybe, for example, 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. That difference would be interesting in itself, but alas there is no survey question for honesty."
Re: Amazing survey...Pak one of the most tolerant, india one of the least tolerant!
i think Pakistan is not as diverse as India because most Pakistanis are Muslims while in India we have Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Untouchables, Jains in large numbers in almost all the major cities. it's just what i think.
