Abstract
Abstract Numerous indicators in South African society suggest the existence of attitudes of prejudice towards immigrants, especially non-Protestanis and those coming from countries other than White South Africa's traditional countries of origin. It would appear that the Afrikaans- and English-speaking communities differ in the social distance expressed towards immigrants. This paper deals with a survey in Pretoria to determine the social distance expressed towards Britishers, Germans, Greeks, Italians, the Dutch and the Portugese, by a number of adult White South African citizens. A modified Bogardus social distance test was used to determine the attitudes of 1.020 respondents who were found to be representative of the population in respect of sex, language, religious affiliation, marital status and age composition. Contrary to the hypothesis it was found that the Afrikaans-speaking sample was not Closer in social distance to the Dutch and Germans than were the English-speaking respondents. The hypothesis...
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