ABSTRACT
Education was taken to mean the highest completed level of education attained by the respondent. The highest level of education was treated as an ordinal-level variable and was classified into seven categories. For people with an educational level no higher or lower than intermediate secondary school, the level of agreement with blatant negative attitudes is relatively low. The educational status of the respondent appears to have a significant effect on perceived threat, authoritarianism and political intolerance. In the Netherlands, most research on negative attitudes towards ethnic minorities has concentrated on the more blatant forms, which, contrary to in the United States, have not declined but have remained stable. Problematisation means that ethnic minorities are considered the ones who have problems or cause them for the ethnic majority. Opposition to affirmative action is also relatively widespread, with more than half of the respondents opposed to affirmative action.
