At the end of May and the beginning of June 2025, the Centre for Public Opinion Research of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences conducted a probabilistic panel Our Society as part of its regular survey on the attitude of Czech society towards national groups. The survey targeted a total of 14 nationalities living on the territory of the Czech Republic and included Czechs themselves, who serve as a reference group.
If we examine the Czech citizens' sympathy for individual national groups living in the Czech Republic, the highest sympathy is shown by Czech citizens for the Czechs themselves (76% consider them to be very or rather sympathetic), also for Slovaks (70%), and by a greater distance also for Vietnamese (52%) and Poles (48%).
The Czech public has an undecided attitude towards a significant part of the national groups surveyed, with the middle answers "neither likeable nor unsympathetic" prevailing, which applies to Germans, Jews, Hungarians, Bulgarians or Chinese. However, the second most common attitude towards the listed groups is more often positive than negative.
In the case of Ukrainians and Romanians, an undecided middle evaluation also prevails, but the second largest group is made up of people who perceive them rather negatively in the Czech Republic.
The lowest number of Czech citizens expressed their sympathy towards Russians, Arabs and Roma residents. More than half of the respondents expressed antipathy towards all three groups. The strongly expressed antipathy towards the Russians in this survey surpassed even the long-standing strong antipathy towards the Roma, who are now in second place.
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- Download the full press release here: ov250721.pdf
- All reports from this survey: 25-05_2
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