YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

General trends in young people’s values and attitudes  73 6. More than 40% of young people do not think of their sexuality as completely heterosexual, while almost 5% are completely homo- sexually oriented. Most young homosexuals (51%) report feeling victimized by discrimination based on their sexual orientation. 7. Even though social distance felt towards all the selected social groups has shrunk in the past two years, it remains high in the case of the Roma and refugees. Only 7% of young people in Slove- nia report feeling uneasy about a Western European family mov- ing into their neighbourhood, while 56% report the same about refugees moving in. 8. Since 2014, young people are more and more of the opinion that immigration from abroad has a negative influence on life in Slo- venia. Nevertheless, today they agree much less than 10 years ago that employers should prioritize offering jobs to Slovenes instead of immigrants. 9. A whopping 70% of young people think that there is too much hate speech in Slovenia. More than 80% say they encounter hate speech on the internet more frequently than once a month. Left-leaning young people (especially the far-left) report a higher presence of hate speech than political centrists and right-leaning (especially far-right) ones. 10. From the beginning of the 21st century, young Slovenians have been rapidly moving away from the Catholic Church. In 2020, only 44% identified with Catholicism. At the same time, the share of weekly churchgoers has doubled since 2013, which indicates a process of youth polarization in the sphere of religiosity.