{"id":515398,"date":"2026-02-06T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=515398"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:33:12","slug":"46-of-poles-declare-dislike-toward-belarusians-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/46-of-poles-declare-dislike-toward-belarusians-poll-finds","title":{"rendered":"46% of Poles Declare Dislike Toward Belarusians, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Public Opinion Research Center (CBOS) has published a report on Poles\u2019 attitudes toward other nations and ethnic groups. According to a survey conducted in 2026, 46 percent of respondents expressed a negative attitude toward Belarusians.<\/p>\n<p>A similar level of dislike was recorded toward Roma people. Poles expressed the most negative attitudes toward Russians, with 74 percent of respondents reporting antipathy.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Italians top the ranking of the most liked nations: 58 percent of respondents expressed a positive attitude toward them, while only 7 percent reported dislike. High levels of sympathy were also recorded toward Czechs (55 percent), Slovaks (52 percent), Britons (49 percent), and Americans (47 percent). More than two-fifths of respondents expressed sympathy toward Croats (45 percent), Swedes, French, and Dutch (44 percent each), as well as Lithuanians (43 percent) and Hungarians (41 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Sociologists note that for the third consecutive year, Poles\u2019 attitudes have worsened toward nations for which sympathy had risen markedly immediately after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine\u2014above all toward Americans, Britons, and Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted by CBOS, a specialized sociological center that has been carrying out surveys representative of Polish society on key socio-political and economic issues since 1982. Since the early 1990s, the center has conducted regular monthly surveys, with results publicly available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s Public Opinion Research Center (CBOS) has published a report on Poles\u2019 attitudes toward other nations and ethnic groups. According to a survey conducted in 2026, 46 percent of respondents expressed a negative attitude toward Belarusians. A similar level of dislike was recorded toward Roma people. Poles expressed the most negative attitudes toward Russians, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":515397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6985b55e4fd1e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"46% of Poles Declare Dislike Toward Belarusians, Poll Finds"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}