Volume 4 No 2 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

396 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 4:387TABLE 4WHICH TRAITS DO YOU BELIEVE BEST CHARACTERIZE THE . . .?Ethnic/Religious minority First three choices Positive/NegativeRomanians Diligent 3.8HospitableNiceRoma Thieving 0.3DirtyLazyHungarians Diligent 2.5CivilizedUnitedArabs Religious 1.5UnitedEntrepreneurialChinese Diligent 5.7EntrepreneurialIntelligentAfricans Uncivilized 0.9DirtyReligious 24Jews 25 Entrepreneurial 3.8ReligiousIntelligentJehovah’s Witnesses Religious 1.6UnitedSuperstitiousIn the 2008 Gallup poll, Jews score considerably higher than Hungariansin the positive/negative balance, thus reconfirming the findings of the2001 poll conducted by Metro Media Transylvania. 26 But do such findingsfully depict reality? As András Kovács has demonstrated for the case ofHungary, a not insignificant part of “the Devil” might hide in the “Don’tknow/No answer” returns; in other words, the more sensitive and the moreat stake the respondents perceive the issues to be, the more often they might24. On par with “Superstitious,” “Neglectful,” and “Nice.”25. The most frequently picked negative traits: “Egoists (10%),” “Conceited(6%),” and “Superstitious (5%).”26. Kivu, “Comentarii pe marginea Barometrului Relaţiilor Interetnice,” 49.The score for other ethnicities in the 2001 survey was Romanians 2.18, Germans2.03, and Roma minus 1.83. The score for “Attitudes toward others,” whichreferred to perceptions of ethnicities other than the respondent’s own, was 1.97.