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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Xenophobia is common everywhere. According to one study posted in the Washington Post, Albania, France, Austria, Moldova, and Bulgaria are the least tolerant places in Europe, but they were still in line or better than many other places in the world. Russia, Serbia, Hungary, and Romania were the next least tolerant. Other countries considered "Eastern Europe", like Poland, Ukraine, Czechia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Estonia were right along the median.

The most tolerant places were the UK, Sweden, and Norway. Some "Eastern European" countries like Croatia, Bosnia, and Latvia actually scored pretty well for racial tolerance. I don't think you can make broad statements about Eastern Europe in general.

The issue of letting migrants enter a country is far more complicated than race. Most Eastern European countries are also the poorest in Europe and have the lowest economic means to handle a migrant crisis.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ant-countries/

In Europe, a large part of the anti-immigration movement is about race. We are very lucky in Canada, as far as race relations go. We have massive and fundamental problems surrounding the way indigenous people are treated, but as a nation of largely immigrants, we're generally extremely tolerant of immigrants. The same attitudes simply don't exist in other places. Most countries in Europe have full on neo-nazi parties running for and even winning seats in their governments, which would be totally unheard of here. What we consider "right-wing" here, would be relatively centrist by European standards. We have zero exposure to true far right parties, which have significant support across Europe.