Sondaj: Cine sunt persoanele „cel mai puțin apreciate” din Marea Britanie?

Sondaj: Cine sunt persoanele „cel mai puțin apreciate” din Marea Britanie?
Sondaj: Cine sunt persoanele „cel mai puțin apreciate” din Marea Britanie?
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Gypsies and Irish Travellers have been named “the least liked” people in the UK, with the Muslim community holding second place in the list of most unpopular communities.

University of Birmingham researchers teamed up with YouGov to conduct a poll to determine “what British people think about Islam, Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities.”

The initial purpose of the research was to “help shed light on the extent and nature of Islamophobia in the UK.”

According to the final results of the survey, Gypsies and Irish Travellers have been named “the least liked” people in the UK, with the Muslim community holding second place in the list of most unpopular communities.

The poll revealed that 25.9% of the 1,667 respondents “feel negative” towards Muslims, with 9.9% feeling “very negative.”

Only Gypsies and Irish Travellers are viewed more negatively by the British public, with 44.6% of people viewing them in a negative light, the report says.

Meanwhile, 8.5% viewed Jewish people negatively, while 6.4% said the same about black people – and 8.4% said they viewed white people negatively.

The researchers concluded that such a negative attitude from the British public towards Gypsies and Irish Travellers could be explained not only through discrimination, but also because there is “less public sanction against openly acknowledging one’s dislike.”

Islamophobia was found to come in “two distinct varieties, racial and religious.”

“While we agree with recent definitions of the term that Islamophobia is a form of racism that targets Muslims, we also demonstrate that it manifests as a distinctively anti-religious prejudice,” the report said.

According to the report’s author, Dr. Stephen Jones, social taboos could significantly affect the answers.

“What’s interesting is you can see there is, for example, discrimination against black African Caribbean people in the UK, but in surveys people do not express that hostility in the way that they do towards Muslims, in the way that they do towards Gypsies and Irish Travellers,” he said.

Dr. Jones said there was a sense that certain kinds of hostility are more “publicly acceptable,” admitting the reasons for this are complex: “it’s down to our media representation, to our political leadership, to various different historical and cultural factors.”

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Harry Johnson a fost editorul de sarcini pentru eTurboNews de mai mult de 20 de ani. Locuiește în Honolulu, Hawaii și este originar din Europa. Îi place să scrie și să acopere știrile.

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