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Czech Health Minister plans changes to attract doctors, nurses ... the best relation to Slovaks, the poll has shown. Asked who they would consider acceptable as their neighbours, most of the respondents named Slovaks, Westerners and Jews. Almost one quarter of them said living next to Romanies would be unpleasant to them, three in ten said such situation would be difficult to cope with and 36 percent called it absolutely unacceptable. Only 12 percent said they saw no problem in living next to Romanies. Ninety-two percent of those polled had nothing against the idea of Slovaks being their neighbours. Almost four-fifths see no problem in living next to Britons, three-quarters said they would have no problem with the French or Americans, two-thirds said the same about Germans and Jews. About a half of the respondents said they would not mind Kazakh or Volhynian Czechs as their neighbours, while one-third said living next to these people would be unpleasant to them. A total of 85 percent of respondents said it would be unpleasant to them, would hardly cope with it or would consider it unacceptable if they lived next to Afghans or Chechens. Eight in ten Czechs would mind being the neighbours of Arabs.
Three-quarters would mind Ukrainians, the Chinese and Vietnamese as neighbours, the poll showed. "The differences ensue from the [different] geographical and cultural closeness of Czechs to members of various nations and ethnic groups, and also from the historical as well as quite recent experience the Czechs have with them," STEM analysts said. They said the Czechs widely view Ukrainians, Russians and Vietnamese as a cheap workforce and obscure peddlers forming their own closed communities. As far as Arabs, Chechens and Afghans are concerned, many Czechs link fears of terrorism with them, STEM found out. A half of those polled said they believed Czechs approach foreigners without prejudices, while the other half said they doubt this. The number of foreigners in the 10-million Czech Republic has been increasing. A total of 402,320 legally lived in the country at the end of March.
(Ceske Noviny)
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