10% of Dutch admit being racist: poll

According to Nederlands Dagblad (this source is in Dutch, so unless you speak Dutch, I'm afraid it's of no use), which is defined as a Christian and involved newspaper, there seems to be a core of racists, who give themselves a 7 or higher on a racism scale from 1 -10. They consider the Dutch to be more intelligent than immigrants, they have no problem with discrimination and if people need to get fired because of a reorganisation, they think the immigrants have to go first. 'Public people' (is that proper English?) such as MPs, should be allowed to refer to groups of immigrants with racist stereotypes, and it should be allowed to insult the prophet Mohamed in whatever way.

Around this core of die-hard racists, there's a larger group of 17% who admits to being racist once in a while. They think immigrants are lazy, intolerant (!) and criminal.

Men turned out to be more racist than women. Most 'die-hard racists' are young, between 14 - 25, only have basic education, are sensible to status and conservative in their norms and values, or, on the other hand, don't care for norms and values at all, just wanting a comfortable life.

It seems the degree of racism didn't vary a lot between cities and rural areas.

The questions themselves aren't mentioned in the article. Apparently 1020 Dutch people were participating in the survey.

But wait ... you speak Dutch, don't you? All the better, now you can check for yourself and don't have to rely on my translation.

I suppose they asked questions to both people from the city and the country side. Otherwise they couldn't have concluded there wasn't a difference in the degree of racism between cities and rural areas, right?

This source mentiones one question ...

Aaargh, spelling error ! Damn you Irma !

Polls are a little bit like statistics, don't you agree?