“An international survey of almost 22,000 adults across 29 countries found British people had the third-most enthusiastic outlook towards refugees, just behind Spain and New Zealand.”
Edit: Just found the actual report by Ipsos. We are #1, not #2. Fixed the title.
Edit 2: We’re also the most likely to agree that refugees make a positive contribution to our country (70%). And here’s the breakdown on the central question:
The reason kiwis are scoring so high is due to our burning desire to go up to foreigners and ask them “so what do you think of New Zealand?”.
Naivety comes a distant second behind our obsession with finding out how we’re doing on the ‘world stage’.
We’d be asking it before the refugees were out of the harbour as we gave them their cup of Milo.
You wouldn’t be able to tell based on our quotas, which are some of the lowest per capita in the world.
I mean, this pretty much explains it doesn’t it. The higher per capita countries are more likely to want to slow down refugee intake, and the lowest ones like us a more likely to be happy to increase the number we take.
