A report published today reaffirms what the evidence has long shown: Britain is among the least racist countries in the world. Using data from the latest wave of the World Values Survey, the researchers demonstrate that Britons are more tolerant of immigrants and ethnic minorities than their counterparts in practically all other countries.
Respondents in numerous countries were given a list of various groups of people and asked: “Could you please mention any that you would not like to have as neighbours?” The charts below show the percentage who mentioned “immigrants/foreign workers” and “people of a different race”, respectively.
As you can see, only 5% of Britons said they wouldn’t like to have immigrants as neighbours, and only 2% said the same about people of a different race. The percentages were much higher in some European countries: almost one in five Italians said they wouldn’t like to have immigrants as neighbours, and almost a quarter of Greeks said the same about people of a different race.
These findings are not new, but it’s useful to have them reaffirmed.
In 2015, the Eurobarometer Survey asked people across Europe to say “how comfortable you would feel if one of your children was in a relationship with a person from each of the following groups”. The groups included black people, Asians, Muslims and Jews. Overall, Britons were among the most tolerant of inter-ethnic relationships – along with Swedes and Luxembourgers.
Regardless of how you operationalise ‘tolerance’, Britons come out as extremely tolerant, even compared to other Western populations.
Of course, social desirability bias could be playing a role here. It’s possible that Britons are more likely to give the ‘correct’ answer than people elsewhere. One reason to suspect that isn’t what’s happening is that far-right parties have never had much success in Britain (although this is partly down to first past the post).
Unfortunately, the message that Britons are extremely tolerant people hasn’t gotten through to the left-wing commentariat or the leaders of many important institutions. Since the early 2010s, there’s been a dramatic rise in mentions of ‘racism’ in the media. And in just the last few years, almost every major institution has been labelled ‘institutionally racist’.
As you can see in the figure above, media mentions of ‘racism’ began skyrocketing just as survey-based measures of racism were hitting historic lows. The less racism there is, the more the media talks about it.
No one’s pretending there’s zero racism in Britain. But all things considered, it’s one of the best countries in the world to be an ethnic minority.
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Yeah, it’s a nice, logical story and conclusion, but there are so many external factors and unkowns that make such an effort and study pretty useless.
Even without economists dismal track record at forecasting anything correctly for much shorter time periods.
And then, we have the robots replacing most of them anyway, and possibly much fewer of them still around anyway, thanks to the Covid NPIs and PIs and those in response to the many upcoming plandemics and climate change ones.
More ridiculous modelling.
My father left school at 14 to start an apprenticeship. At 21 he started two years National Service. In his forties he obtained a post graduate qualification in Management. There were many of his generation who did similar.
He is less formally educated than me but undoubtedly brighter. His handwriting is beautiful. His mechanical skills were exceptional but now unavailable through loss of sight.
I suggest that the disruption to education would be remedied by concentrating on the three R’s, a proper five day week and stripping out ALL the woke BS. Oh and a strong emphasis on teaching Imperial British history and politics.
A problem created via a model is not a problem as we on here know only too well.
A proper emphasis on crafts and arts (not the modern vacuous kind) would also go a long way. Kids aren’t given enough imaginative play and without that they don’t develop an imagination. Too little is invested in allowing genuine culture. But then I guess culture is “racist” by definition.
But think of all that woke history they won’t be learning. How will they manage? An extra month of dead white male bashing is the least we can do. Haven’t the children suffered enough already?
Au contraire
After the black death the wages of artisans rocketed
When the jab bodies pile up this winter I’ll be charging a £1,000 an hour to put your bin bags out
If you book and pay me now it could be a good hedge against inflation
My prices are not likely to stay that low for long
This is meaningless. Necessity is the mother of invention, not curriculum.
We should be under no illusions
The Pig Dictator is just as dangerous as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and all the other tyrants that have left their imprint on humanity
Good interview with Reiner Fuellmich by James Delingpole:
https://rumble.com/vhg4jb-dr-reiner-fuellmich-in-da-house.html
Apparently there’s going to be significant legal progress “in the next 2 or 3 weeks”. Also good on governmental liability (from about 46 minutes).
I am somewhat confused by the surprise being exhibited by many on this speculation concerning the release of the virus from a China laboratory. This has been postulated since the beginning of this nightmare.
It seems to me that there are 3 and only 3 possible scenarios that explain the mass coordinated hysteria by Western Governments.
The first is a vast global conspiracy orchestrated by the WEF and UN to enslave mankind with all the ‘minor’ players like MPs, SAGE members, lab technicians etc. in each country being convinced that they will be on the gravy train when all is done. Such a conspiracy is so unlikely as to be absurd. Conspiracies of 6 or more rarely succeed, let alone one that would require 10s of thousands to participate.
The second is that Western Governments were informed by their ‘security’ services that this ‘novel’ virus was the result of ‘gain of function’ research in China to create a weaponised cold virus. (The source was probably as reliable as the Iraqi taxi driver who convinced the West of Saddam’s WMDs but such dubious provenance would not have hindered their flight to the basement.)
Governments panicked, assuming that this new virus would be easily transmitted like a cold but as deadly as Ebola. Had that been the case they might have been justified in their fear, however, it was obvious within days that they were not, but being the venal, self-serving pond-life that they are they were not prepared to apologise with a public “mea culpa”, instead they continued to destroy jobs, businesses, economies, futures and lives in an attempt to avoid blame for being gutless and inept. After all, their panic clearly undermined the ego and self image of fat, selfish, narcissists like Johnson and the power narcotic of ‘small-man-syndrome’ suffers like Wancock seeking revenge for having his head shoved down the toilet during every PE lesson.
The self serving, mass advertising campaign (>£350 million in the UK) designed to convince the sheeple that this is not a flu-like illness with a similar fatality rate but that it is as deadly as the weaponised virus of their early nightmares, has persisted for more than a year, directly causing more collateral deaths than the virus itself.
This second scenario is almost as absurd as the first. It would require such heartless, selfish, criminal disregard by politicians for the welfare of their populations that it beggars belief. Surely no one would deliberately destroy millions of lives merely to avoid opprobrium of inept decision making? Other than of course; Blair, Brown & Campbell, who happily killed hundreds of thousands pursuing an illegal war justified by deliberate lies told the Parliament and the people of the UK. But now, surely no one would be so evil?
Then there is the third and last possible scenario that is by far the most reasonable, sensible and probable. It fits all the facts and is now being endorsed by the US Government with their lates pronouncements on the subject.
Aliens have arrived and have sprayed the atmosphere with delirium gas causing global, irrational psychosis …