BELGRADE, Nov 30 (Hina) - Two researches, one from February 2002 and one from August this year, indicate that interethnic distrust is on the rise in Serbia and that the highest degree of distance has been demonstrated towards
Albanians, followed by Bosniaks and Croats, while there is more trust towards the Roma and Hungarians, Belgrade's Politika wrote on Friday.
BELGRADE, Nov 30 (Hina) - Two researches, one from February 2002 and
one from August this year, indicate that interethnic distrust is on
the rise in Serbia and that the highest degree of distance has been
demonstrated towards Albanians, followed by Bosniaks and Croats,
while there is more trust towards the Roma and Hungarians,
Belgrade's Politika wrote on Friday. #L#
In February 2002 each of the five minorities bar the Roma rated
better by one-fifth than last August, according to the researches
conducted by Serbia-Montenegro's Ministry for Human and Minority
Rights.
Researchers have concluded that this year there were no
generational differences in opinion as opposed to last year, when
the younger demographic was a little milder in its assessments, and
that one can speak that the young are getting more radical in their
views of ethnic minorities.
A psychology professor from Novi Sad, Miklos Biro, told Politika
that officials were once again becoming intolerant in their
statements and that citizens had turned back to their previous
convictions. "I'm afraid that there was no break with nationalism
in Serbia in 2000 as there was with totalitarianism".
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