Poll finds kiwis have the most positive attitude towards refugees in the world [not The Guardian's headline]
Poll finds kiwis have the most positive attitude towards refugees in the world [not The Guardian's headline]
Survey comes as government rhetoric on immigrants gets increasingly toxic, adopting far-right slogans
"An international survey of almost 22,000 adults across 29 countries found British people had the third-most enthusiastic outlook towards refugees, just behind Spain and New Zealand."
Edit: Just found the actual report by Ipsos. We are #1, not #2. Fixed the title.
Edit 2: We're also the most likely to agree that refugees make a positive contribution to our country (70%). And here's the breakdown on the central question:
You wouldn't be able to tell based on our quotas, which are some of the lowest per capita in the world.
I mean, this pretty much explains it doesn't it. The higher per capita countries are more likely to want to slow down refugee intake, and the lowest ones like us a more likely to be happy to increase the number we take.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/29/nz-mulls-harsher-law-against-refugee-boat-arrivals-despite-no-refugee-boats-ever-having-arrived - we're trying to be more dickish. Seriously, we're doing a shit job of it.
The reason kiwis are scoring so high is due to our burning desire to go up to foreigners and ask them “so what do you think of New Zealand?”.
Naivety comes a distant second behind our obsession with finding out how we’re doing on the ‘world stage’.
We’d be asking it before the refugees were out of the harbour as we gave them their cup of Milo.
I feel like this is going to be dependent on how refugees come.
If you live next to a war torn country, you will get flooded with refugees. The countries a bit further away will still take a lot. But if you're a log way away, have an application process and proper support for the number of refugees you take (which you can easily limit to a manageable amount), then I feel people will probably be more accepting.
Edit: Just found the actual report by Ipsos. We are #1, not #2. Fixed the title.
Are you sure? I only skimmed it but if you look at the list of countries, no matter how you rank it (they seem to be ranking by the number of people who picked the middle option, which seems a little odd to me) then Great Britain doesn't end up in 3rd place like the article claims. They also use "Great Britain" while the article used "UK".
I feel like this is going to be dependent on how refugees come.
I was going to say this. It's easy to be #1 when we have almost no refugees entering illegally.
Are you sure?
We're the highest for "Let stay, and allow more", and for that plus "Let stay, but not allow any more". Any way you look at it, we're number one. They say that somewhere in the text too.
No idea how UK is in #3, but it must be that report The Guardian is referring to because of the date and surveyor.