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.

 

[unit321]

• 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.

I will vouch for this... South Koreans born and raised in Korea are racists. Korean-Americans raised in the US are different.

Even my grandma, who I love dearly, was like using the Korean equivalent of n****r while she was visiting here .

 

[the next guy]

I will vouch for this... South Koreans born and raised in Korea are racists. Korean-Americans raised in the US are different.

Even my grandma, who I love dearly, was like using the Korean equivalent of n****r while she was visiting here .

It makes me sad. I though seoul was cool.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

wow a map I can agree with. I keep hearing about Koreans not being tolerant but I never see it, a lot of the cacs here in China however go on about korea, I have a feeling koreans dont like cacs because of the war, and the other asians for obv reasons, but as a black man I cant say Ive ever had issues. They always seem pretty inquisitive toward me, korean chicks be on a brotha . I dunno. maybe its me, maybe im just staying in safe zones, but I DO hear it A LOT, so I guess it's true, just weird I never see it .

Good to see Brazil (and the rest of latin america) finally getting it's recognition tho.

I'm going to Hong Kong on the 15th for a visa run, I'll report back. I have a feeling the reason they're in the red, is because they're not tolerant of MAINLAND chinese, not other folks.

My aunt does business in India, she's never reported a problem, then again she's a pretty big business person, and money does command respect.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

why they aint report Russia tho. :uhhuh:

 

[the next guy]

why they aint report Russia tho. :uhhuh:

russia is on the map. 15.5 -19 percent bracket.

 

[Marvel]

So Spain is not racist

 

[MeachTheMonster]

So Spain is not racist

That's what I was thinking. My wife and I went on a cruise and the wealthy Spanish people were by far the most rude. I thought it had to do with race, but maybe not

 

[Lakers Offseason]

:rashad: South Africa is not racist?

 

[unit321]

...I have a feeling koreans dont like cacs because of the war, and the other asians for obv reasons, but as a black man I cant say Ive ever had issues...

No, the Korean War was between North and South Korea. Before the war, they were racists. They think they are the superior race. They don't even like other Asian races, especially if your nationality is darker skinned. Yeah, it's like that. Not cool.

Not everyone is like that though. Just like in the South, not every white person is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

So, they don't hate you like a Klan member. They aren't going to lynch you or think about that. But, they don't want to be your neighbor. Stuff like monitoring you in the mini-mart the whole time you are there because they think you are going to shoplift. Garbage like that.

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

I love the subtle clues of making the non racist end of the scale blue and the racist end of the scale red.

Clever work.

Not surprised US is one of the least racist, I think people who live in the stats don't understand just how racist other parts of the world are.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

russia is on the map. 15.5 -19 percent bracket.

oh ok my bad, it looked grey on my screen.


how come they aint do west/central africa. bet they'd be in navy blue and some.

dont want those 'savages' to look more friendly do they.

 

[the next guy]

oh ok my bad, it looked grey on my screen.


how come they aint do west/central africa. bet they'd be in navy blue and some.

dont want those 'savages' to look more friendly do they.

Proabaly


Arab africa i red in some parts but so is nigeria and parts of southern africa. disappointed.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

:rashad: South Africa is not racist?

their are more black south africans than white south africans so those are probably the ones that raised the number.

am I blind or is nigeria in red? that's odd. esp considering they were in the top 5 places welcoming foreign investors, they're currently shipping LOADS of chinese teachers and engineers there, welcoming them with open arms since theyre obv there to improve the country. weird.

 

[Blackking]

Indian's are wilin.