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Matt,
Actually I was surprised that the percentages are so high. “50,4% of the Europeans somewhat or strongly agree that “there are too many immigrants” in their country. 24.5% supposes that “Jews have too much influence in [country]“. 54.4% of the Europeans believe that “the Islam is a religion of intolerance.” Nearly one third (31,3%) of the Europeans somewhat or strongly agree that “there is a natural hierarchy between black and white people”. “ Would you have expected these high figures? I didn’t expect the result of the Swiss referendum either.
I too noticed that quite a lot of people express their prejudice more freely than before that referendum. We are going to hear a lot from that side from now on, I think. Every day a new proposal what to ban next, probably.