5. Italy
White population: around 60.5 million
Since CIA Factbook doesn’t give information on the percent of ethnic groups living in Italy, we used another source to determine the number of whites in the country. There are around 1.3 million non-white people living in Italy, among which Chinese represent the largest group.
Racism in Italy has had a long history that started with Benito Mussolini alliance with Hitler and anti-Semitic ideology. Today, it is still pretty much alive and present even in places where one would expect to find zero tolerance for racist outbursts. In 2013, Cécile Kyenge, first black minister in Italian government, experience series of verbal and physical attacks – bananas were thrown at her, she was compared to an orangutan, and one councilor said she should be raped. Italians express equal intolerance towards Romas, whose population is around 150.00 in Italy. Discrimination in EU 2012 showed that besides Cyprus, Italy is the only member state where an absolute majority of respondents disagree that society could benefit from better integration of the Roma. At the same time, a little less than half of the respondents, 48 percent of them would feel uncomfortable if their children had Roma schoolmates. Finally, the prevalence of racial intolerance is confirmed by data on World and European value survey, on which 11.8 and 15.6 respondents retrospectively said they wouldn’t like to have a neighbor of a different race.
