Posted on 10/04/2021 12:19:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Afrobarometer survey by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) has found that even though the majority of Ghanaians are tolerant of ethnicities other than theirs, “fewer than one in 10 (7%) are tolerant toward people in same-sex relationships”.
This means some 93% of Ghanaians are not tolerant of same-sex-oriented people.
“Ghanaians, generally, tend to express more nationalistic than ethnic sentiments, and most think they are more united as a people than divided”, the report concluded, adding: “Although discrimination is not an uncommon occurrence, Ghanaians express high levels of tolerance toward foreigners and citizens from different ethnic groups or religious faiths, though they are highly intolerant toward people in same-sex relationships."
Read the key findings below:
▪ For nine out of 10 Ghanaians (91%), their national identity is at least as strong as their ethnic identity; very few say they feel “more ethnic” (6%) or “only ethnic” (3%).
▪ About three-quarters (73%) of citizens believe there is more that unites Ghanaians as a single people than divides them.
▪ About one in four Ghanaians (25%) say the government treats members of their ethnic group unfairly, a significant improvement compared to 2008 (49%).
▪ About one in five say other Ghanaians treated them unfairly based on their ethnicity (20%) or their religion (18%) during the year preceding the survey. Almost twice as many (35%) say they suffered discrimination based on their economic status.
▪ Overwhelming majorities of Ghanaians express tolerant attitudes toward people of different ethnicities (92%), different religions (91%), different political affiliations (90%), and different nationalities (74%). But fewer than one in 10 (7%) are tolerant toward people in same-sex relationships.
Ghanaian Identity
In general, when asked whether they identify more strongly with their national or their ethnic identities, the largest share of Ghanaians say they identify equally with both (56% in 2019), followed by the group who identify as “only Ghanaian” (29%) (Figure 1).
Overall, nine out of 10 citizens (91%) identify at least as strongly as “Ghanaian” as they do as members of their ethnic group; fewer than one in 10 say they feel “more ethnic” (6%) or “only ethnic” (3%).
These responses have been fairly consistent over time, although surveys in 2012 and 2014 detected a growing identification with the nation that has since retreated.
Identification as “only Ghanaian” varies widely by region1: While almost half of residents in Bono (45%) and Western North (44%) say they feel “only Ghanaian,” the same is true of fewer than one in 10 respondents in Northern (2%), Upper West (3%), and North East (3%) regions.
Poor respondents are less likely to identify as “only Ghanaian” (19% among those experiencing high lived poverty vs. 38% of the economically best-off respondents), as are those with no formal education (20%) compared to their better-educated counterparts (28%-34%).
Are Ghanaians tolerant enough? At least nine out of 10 Ghanaians express tolerant attitudes toward people of different ethnicities (92%), different religions (91%), and different political affiliations (90%), saying they would like it or would not care if they had these people as neighbours.
Three-fourths (74%) indicate the same tolerance toward immigrants or foreign workers. But fewer than one in 10 (7%) say they wouldn’t mind living next door to someone in a same-sex relationship. The 93% who say they would “somewhat dislike” or “strongly dislike” having homosexual neighbours place Ghana near the top in terms of intolerance across 23 African countries surveyed between late 2019 and early 2021, well above the 80% average.
Intolerance toward people in same-sex relationships is pervasive across age groups, religious affiliations, and urban as well as rural locations. Citizens with no formal education are slightly less likely to express intolerance (88%) than their more educated counterparts (91%- 95%).
"People in same-sex relationships" is not the same as "same-sex-oriented people."
"People in opposite-sex relationships" is not the same as "opposite-sex-oriented people."
I suspect it’s about the same here.
I think it’s wouldn’t be too hard to believe 7% may think
experimentation was okay.
It seems to me the dedicated to one on one same sex
relationships is still around 2-3%.
Congratulations! That very brief headline somehow manages to be "homophobic," "xenophobic," "sexist," and "racist!"
P.S. My pronouns are ze, zou, zy, zey and zem. So please leave ze alone and get out of zy face, you homophobic, xenophobic, racist, sexist!
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Africa is becoming the world’s last bastion of true Christianity.
Do not be surprised if God’s grace shifts to that suffering continent.
“It seems to me the dedicated to one on one same sex
relationships is still around 2-3%.”
About right but plenty of people on the down low of occasional randon encounters especially married men. My wife had a gay male employee at one time. He said lot of married men would contact him.
Lot of women like to experiment as well but still consider themselves straight
Africans may yet save humanity from itself.
Who can blame them? They were born that way!
You mean, they’ve tried it and didn’t like it, or they are just reflexively grossed out by the idea and would never think of trying it?
That extra 5% covers a lot of people.
I also think that some young kids experiment around a bit,
but that doesn’t express homosexuality to me. It represents
curiosity.
I say that because they go on to only want someone of the
opposite sex in their life long-term.
Please be careful of what some homosexual people say. Oh
I have been contacted by a lot of married men. Some
perhaps, but I’m not thinking married men are all of a
sudden realizing they want a guy instead.
They dated women exclusively. They like women. They
chose one to marry and perhaps have a family with.
Let’s say he was contacted by 35 people. That seems like
a lot, but in the overall scheme of things, it’s nothing.
I doubt he was contacted by even that many.
There is also a desire by homosexuals to depict a society
where far more people are homosexuals than the actual
numbers reveal.
Guess Rue Paul better steer clear.
Don’t eat the Poo Poo.
If you have a d!ck
You are not a chick.
That is still true in Ghana.
Well, it is true everywhere. But the people of Ghana still say it.
Where is the Captain Obvious cartoon when we need it?
Same is true here, but we are overrun with cowards, caving to the PC thought police.
“93% of Ghanaians Can’t Stand Same-Sex Relationships – Afrobarometer Survey”
I suspect a similar survey would be around 50/50.
But what if a survey was done when people didn’t have to worry about answering the question the ‘wrong’ way? Probably not 93% against, but 75% might be what they really think.
True story: the Methodists went to Africa and converted a bunch of Christians.
Now leftist Methodists are angry because these same Africans show up to national convention every two years and help the otherwise-outnumbered conservatives vote down gay ministers.
God Bless them.
I say that, because it is only in certain Western countries is the "same-sex relationship" a "woke" thing, being looked upon as "normal". The entire rest of the world considers it abnormal and an abomination.
To that, I read an article a few weeks ago about Jamaica wanting the homosexual flag taken down at the US embassy in Kingston. They just don't play that nonsense there, but the American liberal dumbasses who believe everyone thinks like them decided to fly that flag.
It seems to me the dedicated to one on one same sex
relationships is still around 2-3%.
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It’s at least 10 times that much, according to television shows and adverts.
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