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| ADL World Survey: Hating the Jew You've Never Met |
| 2014-05-17 |
| [IsraelTimes] Yet the study shines not in the details, but in its sweeping international perspective. In interviewing over 53,000 people in 93 languages across 102 countries and regions, the survey pieces together a global picture of the web of stereotypes and hatreds through which a significant swath of humanity views the Jews. It enables us to go beyond the narrow confines of each nation's politics and prejudices and think more deeply about the phenomenon and the essential question that lies at its root: Why do they hate us? The question is put into sharp relief by the finding that fully 27% of people who have never met a Jew nevertheless harbor strong prejudices against him. Or, indeed, that a huge majority, 77%, of those who hate Jews have never met one. Even more starkly, the survey found an inverse relationship between the number of Jews in a country and the spread of anti-Semitic attitudes there. As a general rule, the fewer the Jews in a particular country, the more numerous the anti-Semites. This should not surprise us. We already understood that anti-Semitism is skyrocketing in precisely those parts of the world where Jews fled from or perished in the last century, primarily the Middle East and Eastern Europe. But by giving numbers to these beliefs, the study allows us to think more carefully about the sources of the phenomenon. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Speaking of which .. it's been many many decades since I heard a Polish joke. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-05-17 18:31 |
| #7 Excellent observation TW. Ill will toward the Jew has been around for quite a long while. Americans on the other hand, are but a microscopic flyspeck on the challah cover of time. Perhaps we are some sort of homogenized cosmic experiment. My plan is to be nice to Jews.... just in case. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-17 16:24 |
| #6 I always though Jews had big noses So do lots of people of Mediterranean stock. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-05-17 15:47 |
| #5 I thought the article said something very positive about Americans and how they define themselves as inclusive rather than exclusive, Besoeker. The study revealed that the ways that different societies define Jews as different and therefore awful ties to the problems the particular society has, and they therefore externalize that problem onto the Jews... especially if there aren't any Jews around to contradict it by being visibly other-than-defined in real life. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-17 15:17 |
| #4 Ahhhh NICE! A polite way of saying all non-Jewish Americans are bloody, duck calling headcases and closet anti-semitics Haven't you ever wondered, though, about why all those duck-calling headcases have the heavy beards and the frizzy hair? Maybe they're hiding something? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-17 11:46 |
| #3 Ahhhh NICE! A polite way of saying all non-Jewish Americans are bloody, duck calling headcases and closet anti-semitics. Perhaps it's not that at all. Perhaps American's have just had a bloody snoot full of the cult of victimization. But what do I knowm, I'm the least of all "remarkable." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-17 03:02 |
| #2 Not any Tuvans around here but I don't hold much against them except that damn noise they make, and the yurts, I can't stand a yurt, drive down the property values you see. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-17 01:10 |
| #1 Without comparative data vis-a-vis other ethnic/religious groups, it's a meaningless survey. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2014-05-17 00:24 |