Vietnamese expats celebrate their traditional New Year festival in the Czech Republic (Photo: VNA)Prague (VNA) – Czechscontinue to prefer Slovaks the most of all ethnic groups and their perceptionof the Vietnamese improved in the past year, according to a CVVM poll.
The Czech News Agency (CTK) cited the results of the CVVM poll as reporting that 37 percentof the correspondents said they like the Vietnamese. The liking of theVietnamese grew as compared to the previous poll and they are perceived themost positively since 2013, when the CVVM agency first enquired about it.
Up to 80 percent of Czechs like Slovaks,followed by the Polish, with one half of Czechs being fond of them.
Concerning another five groups, the share of therespondents who like them prevail over those who do not, including the Greeks(38 percent), Jews (30 percent), Germans (34 percent), Hungarians (30 percent)and Bulgarians (25 percent).
According to recent data of the CzechStatistical office (CSU), there were 493,400 foreigners living in the CzechRepublic with 10.5 million inhabitants at the end of 2016, of whom there were110,000 Ukrainians, 107,251 Slovaks and 58,025 Vietnamese.
The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in thecountry, with estimated 245,800 people contributing to almost 2.3 percent ofthe country's population.
In 2013, the European country recognised the Vietnamese community asone of its ethnic groups. Czech President Miloš Zeman said the Vietnamesecommunity have been integrating well into Czech society.-VNA
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