21 July 2010

CZECH REPUBLIC: Poll Shows Czechs Finicky About Tolerance.

PRAGUEMONITOR/    A recent Focus Agency poll shows that only about one-fifth of Czechs are willing to accept Romanies as Czech citizens. However, 43% would not let Romanies enter the Czech Republic or they would expel them from the country. But Czechs are more accommodating to Poles and Germans. Five and 6% of Czechs can imagine a Pole or a German as their life partners, respectively. Sixty percent don't mind Poles as friends, neighbors and colleagues. One-fifth would accept them only as visitors to the Czech Republic.