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Originally Posted by Husker
No the subject of the studies is "on populism and the public state of globalisation, including national samples in twenty-three countries spanning the world.". In this case we were looking at a specific question, 'Do the benefits of immigration outweigh the costs'. I've pointed out where you've gone wrong and others have also done the same.
You seem to believe that the key-message of this article is that Britan has slightly more citizens who believe in the benefits of migration than other countries, which is supposed to be a success of some sort.
Unfortunately I have bad news for you: That's also completly ridiculous for the very same reason. Britan has a higher percentage of citizens with migration background than many other european countries. If you allow these people to vote on the survey you automatically get higher if not the highest numbers.
Take all the current migrants that got UK-citizenship and add the 2nd generation children from Figure 1 in the following report who are old enough to vote.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...dandwales/2015
If you do that you should get around 25%.
Fact is: They had people voting in that survey who directly benefit from migration. Even funnier is that the number of pro-voters correlates exactly with the number of british citizens with migration background. According to this study it is possible that 100% of british citizen without migration background are against migration. It would be extreme, but it's possible. Don't tell this to anyone!
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The decent thing to do is to refer to them in the manner they themselves prefer.
Sorry, but decency is not part of my repertoire.