Religious, Cultural and Racial Superiority
The
majority
of
the
people
and
the
majority
of
66
nations
surveyed
by
Gallup
International
Association
believe
that
there
is
no religious,
cultural
or
racial
superiority.
Nevertheless,
in
significant
number
of
countries
the
public
opinion
on
that
issue
is
divided.
In 10
countries,
there
is
a
majority
which
believes
that
there
is
religious,
cultural
and
racial
superiority
altogether.
The
key
purpose
of
the
survey
question
is
not
measure
racism
on
its
own,
neither
the
filings
of
cultural
and
religious
superiority.
The main
interest
is
to
reflect
on
the
internal
national
balances.
It
is
evident
that
all
those
countries
which
feel
stable
and
not threatened
show
low
levels
of
religious,
cultural
or
racial
superiority.
And
vice
versa.
The
main
factors
which
stimulate
massively
spread
feelings
of
superiority
in
those
three
fields
most
probably
are:
- sharp internal conflicts and problems
- sharp external instability and expectation of outside intervention
- deep transformation of the society leading to mass feelings of insecurity
Kancho Stoychev, President of Gallup International Association:
“Overall the global tolerance towards racial, religious and cultural differences is a dominating norm. Exceptions from this norm are occurring in countries, nations or regions with serious internal or external conflicts. The countries in which we register a seriously split public opinion on the issues (divided countries), this is most probably an indicator of deep transformational processes in their societies going on.”
Methodology
The End of Year Survey is an annual tradition initiated by and designed under the chairmanship of Dr. George Gallup in 1977. It is conducted every year since then. This year it was carried out by the Gallup International Association in 69 countries around the world.
A total of 66541 people were interviewed globally. In each country a representative sample of around 1000 men and women was interviewed either face to face (25 countries; n=29211), via telephone (13 countries; n=10754), online (25 countries; n=23947) or through mixed methods (3 countries; n=2629). The field work was conducted during October – December 2016. The margin of error for the survey is between +/-3-5% at 95% confidence level.
