International Journal of Intercultural Relations 30 (2006) 799–810 Cultural values and attitudes toward immigrants and multiculturalism: The case of the Eurobarometer survey on racism and xenophobia $ Chan-Hoong Leong , Colleen Ward Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Received 10 June 2006; received in revised form 3 July 2006; accepted 4 July 2006 Abstract The current paper uses archival data to examine variations in Schwartz’s and Hofstede’s cultural value orientations and their relationship to attitudes toward immigration and multiculturalism reported in the Eurobarometer Survey [Attitudes towards minority groups in the European Union: a special analysis of the Eurobarometer 2000 opinion poll on behalf of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. Eurobarometer Opinion Poll. Retrieved September 1, 2003, from /http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htmS] on racism and xenophobia. The results demonstrated that mastery, masculinity, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and collectivism were associated with weaker support for policies that promote social co-existence. Masculinity and mastery were also linked to more pessimistic attitudes towards multiculturalism, and increased harmony was correlated with less desire for cultural assimilation. The results largely converge with research undertaken at the individual-level of analysis, and the data suggest four clusters of cultural values related to immigration attitudes: humanitarianism-egalitarianism, conservation, collectivism, and instrumentality. r 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Values; Attitudes; Immigrants; Multiculturalism; Eurobarometer ARTICLE IN PRESS www.elsevier.com/locate/ijintrel 0147-1767/$ - see front matter r 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2006.07.001 $ The research is part of the doctoral thesis of the first author and was supervised by the second author. Corresponding author. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117570. Tel.: +65 6516 7780; fax: +65 6779 1428. E-mail address: arilch@nus.edu.sg (C.-H. Leong).