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Originally Posted by Arcana XV  Far be it from me to try and defend Volker and his extremist views, but I'm questioning the validity of the findings in this article. I want to know who exactly the people they surveyed are. |
I prefer the term "radical views".
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The surveys took the form of representative telephone interviews. The number of interviewees amounted to 1,004 (Germany), 1,115 (Israel) and 500 (U.S.) Thus a total of 2519 people were interviewed for this survey. The interviews were conducted
between 12 January and 26 January 2007.
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If it's done by Emnid and Bertelsmann Stiftung, I think, it is done in a high quality way. My favorite TV station, n-tv, did a lot of cooperation with Emnid, however, I think, they are working more with Allensbach meanwhile.
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Originally Posted by Arcana XV |
Don't expect the ADL to ask Jewish people in the US on their views about Afro-Americans or people with a different skin color in general. You can't do this, this would only put things in the right perspective.
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Originally Posted by Arcana XV Seeing as Germany is also a nation with a rather high percentage of immigrants, the numbers stated in Rosenthal and Salzborn's article really don't mean much without more information. Did they only survey ethnic Germans or did they also include Germans of foreign origin? |
I think, 1,004 persons is representative for Germany. They did not say views held by ethnic Germans, but views held in Germany. So they are three big ethnic groups in Germany, these are German, Turkish and Russian people. There are smaller groups with people from Poland and the Balkans, Denmark, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Vietnam, Iran and Arabia and Africa and China and Japan.