The 20 most tolerant countries

Luxembourg
Canada
New Zealand
Iceland
Ireland
Uruguay
Netherlands
Finland
Belgium
Portugal
Norway
Australia
Denmark
Sweden
United Kingdom
Spain
Malta
Switzerland
Costa Rica
Slovenia



The 20 least tolerant countries

Afghanistan
Sudan
Yemen
Egypt
Iran
Libya
Mauritania
The Central African Republic
Russia
Democratic Republic of Congo
Iraq
China
Chad
Algeria
Swaziland
Belarus
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan
Comoros
Tajikistan

yupiiiiii, Portugal is tolerant... and happy

That list isn't totally correct if I see what happens in the Netherlands these days...trust me when I say not so tolerant as it seems.

Denmark is also getting much less tollerant than it used to be . Things seen from street level it is a question if it should not be in the bottom of the list .

Folks , world is now changing very fast
World is now tolerant just with rich and ignorant with poor
It s same for every country , globalization is one law , what happen to your place , happen to my place to

Marcel-R6 all Scandinavian countries dont know what is the meaning of intolerance few things going wrong people think its very bad but in 1/4 of the world people have never seen what is good life so they make it worse mindset has become that way,politicians take advantage and play with peoples sentiments,anyway we are not in any list nither tolerant or least tolerant so how does one define something in between

Netherlands is not just a pretty picture of tulips and Denmarks The Little Mermaid got extra pollished the day the picture was taken . You might not believe it , but the real picture seen from street level is much less pretty .

Australia is very intolerant of disabled people, especially those whose disability is not completely obvious.

In December I met my 82-year-old father at his local RSL club for their $8 lunch (we do that every couple of months). After I left the club to catch the 3 buses, ferry & train home a young man abused me when he saw me holding my pensioner discount card, demanding to know if I had ever worked or paid tax. When I told him I had paid taxes for 20 years before I got too ill to work, he called me a lazy bludger and walked off.

The incident has been so traumatising that I no longer want to catch public transport, as it was the 3rd time I have been abused in the past 5 years for being a disabled person. I haven't been to see my father since then, because I get scared someone will hit me for not having a job.

Arvind9 wrote: Marcel-R6 all Scandinavian countries dont know what is the meaning of intolerance few things going wrong people think its very bad but in 1/4 of the world people have never seen what is good life so they make it worse mindset has become that way,politicians take advantage and play with peoples sentiments,anyway we are not in any list nither tolerant or least tolerant so how does one define something in between

Nothing personal Arvind but you honestly have no clue how and what is going on in most of Europe these days.
But your entitled to your opinion

I guess the one thing that really hurt me most over the past few years was when my nation's government started classifying Australian citizens as being "lifters or leaners". I know some other countries describe their citizens as "workers or shirkers".

Over the past 15 years I went, through illness, from being a lifter (paying taxes) to being a leaner (requiring assistance). And what a humiliating, demoralising experience it has been. From being a well-liked manager of 30 staff to being ignored & treated as unworthy of any courtesy or respect. I haven't changed (personality-wise), but attitudes towards me have changed a great deal.

That, to me, is intolerance - refusing to accept the validity of people who do not meet your own high standards of what a person should be.

If the UK is in the top twenty, the rest of you must be actual nazis.

We were pretty tolerant - or at least, forced intolerance underground - until last year. After the Brexit vote, we have overt fascism, groups of overt fascists marching the streets, and record levels of hate crime.

I'm not surprised Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands are in the top twenty, but I'd echo the sentiment that they're worse than they were - they did have further to fall that most places though, so hanging on to the top twenty seems feasible.

Iceland is the only one that seems about right, to be honest.

I suspect these figures are five to ten years old.

Marcel-R6 wrote:

Arvind9 wrote: Marcel-R6 all Scandinavian countries dont know what is the meaning of intolerance few things going wrong people think its very bad but in 1/4 of the world people have never seen what is good life so they make it worse mindset has become that way,politicians take advantage and play with peoples sentiments,anyway we are not in any list nither tolerant or least tolerant so how does one define something in between

Nothing personal Arvind but you honestly have no clue how and what is going on in most of Europe these days.
But your entitled to your opinion

I know what you are taking about its happening even in our country it takes time for people to realise what is going wrong

yep we all got our opinions its people's tolerance that over rules everything, people make a country,a country itself has no say but the people who dwell in it make the rules particularly the government ,its policies are not liked by everyone hence you will find high and low tolerance levels in people,then other countries will judge that country by by its stringent or not so stringent laws/agendas and all the other crap that is legislated or will be.

at the end of the day i personally believe the government only benefits the minority and the majority of the poor souls have no say but to grin and bear it.

pindokhan123 wrote: at the end of the day i personally believe the government only benefits the minority and the majority of the poor souls have no say but to grin and bear it.

No, we have a choice. We're just too busy eating curry and chips, and drinking tea to do anything about it.

I will reclaim the Danelaw one day, and bring an end to the tyranny of central government,

go bouldrake go,,,,,,,,,,,i will be supporting you all the way! its true us Brits are too busy indulging ourselves and oblivious to what is going on around us,at the moment the brexit hasn't hit us properly,its still early days but when the impact soon has its toll believe me,curry and chips will be the last thing on our mind

Oh no . If you think Danish laws and society is much better than your own you are wrong . We should follow England out of the Union and border back up . That would end some of the free movement of cheap workers into our country and get a lot more of our longterm unemployed in jobs . Racists is also growing in numbers due to they see foreign workers taking the jobs they applied for . Nothing personal on the imigrants , but we do have more unemployed than we used to . To those who dont know Danelaw , Danelaw was a pize of England that once was ruled by Denmark .

since i was born my mum has been using LURPAK the original danish butter,so yes something good does come out of Denmark

hyldig wrote: Oh no . If you think Danish laws and society is much better than your own you are wrong . We should follow England out of the Union and border back up . That would end some of the free movement of cheap workers into our country and get a lot more of our longterm unemployed in jobs . Racists is also growing in numbers due to they see foreign workers taking the jobs they applied for . Nothing personal on the imigrants , but we do have more unemployed than we used to . To those who dont know Danelaw , Danelaw was a pize of England that once was ruled by Denmark .

It wasn't ruled by Denmark, it was ruled by Danes. There's a difference. While we did have a king - and I come from the capital, so the Ragnarssons would have been my king - the communities within the Danelaw were largely autonomous. Autonomous communities with allegiances to other groups is a much preferable state to a central government who may have never even visited your community.

bouldrake,im going to say something but plz dont take it personally ok............i was just looking at the no of likes you have given since 2010 and its a gob stopping,jaw-breaking a massive 10 likes

is it coz you are a stingy git or you dont like peoples post or cant be bothered?

now dont go taking this the wrong way ok

If a post is worth a like, it's generally worth a comment, so it gets a comment instead.

Likes are reserved for the very few posts that deserve a comment, but when I can't think of anything to add.