In March 2009 CVVM used some questions focused on public tolerance to some groups of people. Czechs were shown a list of 14 groups of people and they had to say, whether they would not want these people as their neighbours. Negative attitude to neighbourhood of four groups was expressed by Czech people. These groups consist of drug addicts, 85 % of Czech would not want them to be their neighbours. Four fifths of Czech citizens (79 %) would not like to live close to people with criminal past and 78 % of Czechs would not want alcoholics in their neighbourhood.
People (53 %) also expressed their negative attitude to living close to mentally ill people, on the other side the negative attitude was not too convincing.
In connection with tolerance this survey also dealt with question how is the Czech society tolerant to individual groups of people. Czechs think that Czech public is mainly intolerant to people with criminal past (61 %), drug addicts (59 %).
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