Rising Numbers of Americans Say Jews and Muslims Face a Lot of Discrimination
40% of U.S. adults say there’s a lot of discrimination against Jews in society, and 44% say there’s a lot of discrimination against Muslims.
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40% of U.S. adults say there’s a lot of discrimination against Jews in society, and 44% say there’s a lot of discrimination against Muslims.
About half of Asian adults who have heard of affirmative action (53%) say it is a good thing, 19% say it is a bad thing, and 27% say they don’t know whether it is good or bad. However, about three-quarters of all Asian adults (76%) say race or ethnicity should not factor into college admissions decisions.
Most Asian Americans say violence against them is increasing, and most also worry at least some of the time about being threatened or attacked.
More than nine-in-ten Americans (93%) say high school grades should be at least a minor factor in admissions decisions.
57% of Black adults say marijuana should be legal for medical and recreational use by adults; 28% say it should be legal for medical use only.
In 2018-19, 79% of White elementary and secondary public school students went to schools where at least half of their peers were also White.
Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a “model minority.”
Black men are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.
While views of and experiences with police vary substantially across demographic groups, there is support for a number of police reforms.
Currently, 55% of U.S. adults express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, unchanged from a year ago.
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