Czechs most like Slovaks, least Romanies-poll - Prague Daily Monitor
Prague, Jan 8 (CTK) - Czechs consider themselves the most likeable of all ethnic groups living in the Czech Republic, according to a poll by the CVVM centre carried out last December and released today.

Out of foreigners, Czech most like Slovaks and they also like Poles and Germans very much, while they harbour the least sympathy to Romanies and people from the Balkan countries are not very popular among Czechs, according to the poll.

Almost all respondents - 96.6 percent - described Czechs as very likeable people and 91.4 percent similarly assessed Slovaks, followed by Poles - 73.4 percent and Germans - 59 percent

Did we just see a poll on this a month ago? But this time we have some interesting numbers:

Only 9.4 percent of respondents said they liked Romanies very much while 76.1 percent said they did not like them.

Sad but not surprising.

A distinctly negative assessment was given by respondents to Balkan countries´ nationals (45.7 percent) and foreigners from the former Soviet Union (45.1 percent).

This is probably mostly a result of the long enmity towards the Soviet Union after 1968.

Almost half of respondents - 44 percent - expressed their sympathy towards Jews, while 22.7 percent of Czechs assess them negatively.

It would interesting to see these numbers broken down in more detail. Czech anti-semitism is a strange beast with prominent historical and literary figures in both camps. Today, I would imagine, most anti-Semitism is imported.

"It is only respondents over 60 who often assess Germans negatively," CVVM says.

That again, is not surprising, although, I suspect that there would also be a fair bit of regional variation with the border regions tending toward the negative.

Most people - 58.9 percent - believe that foreigners should adapt themselves to the local culture as quickly as possible, while 5.6 percent of Czechs hold the opposite view.

Again, no surprises here but it should be pointed out that with the level of immigration at about 2.5% of the population, Czechs in general, probably don't have very good images of what such adaptation would look like and how to deal with it on a day-to-day basis.

Most people - 58.9 percent - believe that foreigners should adapt themselves to the local culture as quickly as possible, while 5.6 percent of Czechs hold the opposite view.