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The paper answers the question of how antisemitism, and anti-Roma and
anti-foreigner attitudes, have changed in Hungary over the last decade. The
basis of the analysis is the May 2002 TÁRKI survey on topics such as
xenophobia and immigration, the social distance from, and sympathy
towards, certain ethnic and national groups, anti-Roma feelings and
antisemitism.
A factor analysis on antisemitism allowed us to conclude that there were
three well-distinguished types of anti-Jewish feelings: political,
discriminatory and religious.
While the general level of political and discriminatory antisemitism has
neither risen, nor declined, the level of religious antisemitism has dropped
since 1994.
Openly discriminatory anti-Roma opinions became less frequent during
the last decade. Despite this, it is noticeable that attitudes towards the Roma
remain essentially negative and, in comparison with other ethnic groups, the
rejection of the Roma is at a very high level.
Over the past five years the proportion of the adult population
characterized by an openly xenophobic attitude has varied between 26 and
43 per cent. Xenophobia is most often exhibited by those who are older, less
educated and temporarily or permanently excluded from the labour market.
The open rejection of refugees is connected to a negative perception of the
social effects of immigration. Almost three-quarters of respondents saw a
link between immigration and the rise in crime, and more than half agreed
with the assertion that ‘immigrants take jobs away from people born in
Hungary’.
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