Attitudes Scotland should strive to change

HOW prejudiced is modern Scotland? The latest annual Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, funded by the Scottish Government, was published yesterday. It is encouraging to see that two thirds of us think Scotland should do everything it can to combat racial and other forms of prejudice, though it would have been better if that figure had been nearer 100 per cent.

In the 2003 survey, 38 per cent said that Scotland would lose its identity if more Muslims came to live here; by 2006 this had increased to 50 per cent. There has also been a four-point increase in the proportion of people who say they would be unhap...