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The Turks Hate Absolutely Everyone
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 6, 2014 @ 9:00 am In The Point | 13 Comments
But then again 73 percent of Turks also hate Russia. 70 percent of them hate NATO despite being part of it. 66 percent of them hate the EU despite wanting to be in it.
68 percent of them hate China. Why? 65 percent of them hate Brazil? What did Brazil do to them besides being non-Muslim?
It figures that a Sunni Muslim xenophobic country would really hate Israel and Iran.
The current Islamist government with its control of the media and constant propaganda can be blamed for some of this, but the best favorable the US ever had in Turkey was 30 percent.
None of the countries on the list even get a favorable rating. Saudi Arabia comes closest and by closest I mean that 56 percent of Turks hate it and 26 percent like it.
These are strangely xenophobic numbers even by Muslim standards. You get the feeling that if you made up a country, Turks would still rate it negatively.
For example, 65 percent of Brazil ranks the US favorably. Last year they ranked China as high as 65 percent. This year China tumbled to 44 percent.
Even China has a 50 percent favorable view of the US. It clocks in Russia at 66 percent and Brazil at 43 percent. Even the Russians like China and Brazil, and used to like the US before the recent war.
Even a nasty place like Pakistan will rate China favorably, even if it also hates everyone, including Brazil.
The Turks are somewhat unique in just randomly hating everyone.
Still Muslim countries tend to cluster around the bottom of country ratings, which means they seem to randomly give other countries negative ratings which is an indicator of high levels of xenophobia.
Some of Brazil’s regional neighbors rate it poorly, but overall the most negative ratings come from Turkey, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, the PLO Authority, Malaysia and Tunisia.
When it comes to irrational hatred of other countries, Islam is still the winner.
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