In Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan there was a comparably large margin accepting that we British are racially tolerant. Britain is now a classless society' Young people were quite clear that the UK has not become a classless society. Only in Nigeria and Pakistan was there net agreement that the statement was accurate. Elsewhere voices disagreeing ran 55 percentage points ahead of voices agreeing. But young people also rejected the view that women in the UK suffer from discrimination, though there were local variations.
British people are very welcoming towards foreigners'.
The survey showed that the stereotype of the reserved Britisher holds good around the world. Only in Nigeria and Bangladesh, countries that tended to take a generally favourable view of the UK, was there clear acceptance that we British welcome foreign visitors. The belief that British people are welcoming to foreigners was most vigorously rejected in Kenya, Greece and Spain, where 60-67 per cent of people said that they disagreed. A high level of net disagreement was also recorded in Japan and Korea. Worryingly the survey found no difference in perception between young people who had visited the UK and those who hadn't.