Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 02.14.2006

Poll: Ethnic tolerance down in Lithuania

(JTA) -- Thirty-one percent of Lithuanians don’t want Jewish neighbors, a new poll found. That figure was up from 18 percent in 1990, the Baltic Times reported. According to the survey, carried out by a Lithuanian market research company, 20 percent of respondents did not want people of other nationalities as their neighbors, up from 9 percent in 1990.