Eastern Europe welcomes some refugees, not others. Is it only racism?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Polish goodwill toward Ukrainians has been increasing since the fall of communism, with a spike in positivity coming in the last two to three years.
44% : That year saw more than 1.3 million people arrive in Europe seeking asylum, primarily from Syria's civil war, but also from turmoil in Afghanistan and Iraq.
36% : He is referring to a tense standoff last year when Middle Eastern asylum-seekers were trapped in a freezing buffer zone between Poland and Belarus, which exploited the migrants to put pressure on the European Union.

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