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Survey Finds Jews
Have Less Prejudice
New York (JTA) — Jews are
less likely than other non-
black Americans to hold an-
ti-black views, according to a
poll commissioned by the
Anti-Defamation League.
In contrast to whites,
Asians and Latinos, Jews re-
ject virtually all of the tradi-
tional negative stereotypes
associated with blacks, the
survey found.
By the survey's calcula-
tions, 29 percent of non-
black Americans fall into
the category of being "most
prejudiced" against blacks.
Twenty-six percent fall
into the middle category,
and 45 percent merit inclu-
sion in the "least pre-
judiced" category.
Jews, in comparison, are
relatively free from pre-
judice.
Seventeen percent of Jews
are among the "most pre-
judiced" Americans, a simi-
lar 23 percent are in the mid-
level category, and a
majority — 60 percent — are
among the least prejudiced
Americans.
The telephone poll of 1,600
Americans was conducted
over several evenings in Oc-
tober and November 1992,
by the Boston- based survey-
ing firm of Marttila & Kiley.
The margin of error is
plus-or-minus four percen-
tage points.
The study was commis-
sioned by ADL to be a com-
panion to the national poll
on public attitudes toward
American Jews that it con-
ducted in May 1992.
Both surveys revealed a
high correlation between
negative attitudes toward
specific minority groups,
such as blacks and Jews, and
a general intolerance of all
racial, ethnic, cultural and
social diversity.
And, as the anti-Semitism
poll revealed, those Ameri-
cans who hold the most
negative attitudes toward
Jews are also among the
most likely to harbor
negative feelings toward
blacks, immigrants, illegal
aliens, homosexuals and
women.
According to the new
survey, Jews are also more
likely than the public at
large to be sensitive to dis-
crimination against blacks.
For example, 63 percent of
Jews surveyed reject the no-
tion that blacks receive the
same pay as whites for the
same work, while just 40
percent of non-black Ameri-
cans rejected the idea.
Another illustration is the
finding that while a majority
of non-black Americans —
58 percent — say that the
judicial system generally
treats blacks as fairly as
whites of the same income
and educational level, just
36 percent of Jews agreed.
More than half of all Jews
— 53 percent — believe that
a black person is more likely
to receive the death penalty
than a white would for corn-
mitting the same crime. Just
one-third of respondents
from the non-black popula-
tion — 34 percent —believes
this to be true.
Jews are also more likely
than non-black Americans to
believe that a lack of good
schools for black Americans
limits their opportunities in
the long run.
More than three out of four
Jews — 77 percent, com-
pared with 59 percent of non-
blacks — say that public
schools in predominantly
black areas are inferior to
schools in mainly white
areas.
The survey found that for
the first time in four
decades, young non-black
adults are more prejudiced
than their older counter-
parts.
The most prejudiced views
are held by non-black
Americans under age 30 and
over age 50. The least pre-
judiced Americans are 30-49,
the survey found.
Younger people may be
more bigoted because "they
lack some of the experiences
that the baby boomers have
had, they don't have the
memory and consciousness"
of the struggles endured dur-
ing the heyday of the civil
rights era, said Abraham
Foxman, national director of
the Anti-Defamation
League.
"The older generation
assumes that the experi-
ences and feelings they have
would pass through the
genes. But they don't, and
we have to make up for it
through teaching about it,"
said Mr. Foxman.
He also described what he
called the "self-imposed
segregation" of blacks on
college campuses and affir-
mative action, "which may
have been perceived as
quotas," as contributing to
the bigoted views of young
Americans.