American media spills a lot of ink on polls that tell us which nations hate America, which ones tolerate America and which ones really like us. But much less is known about how Americans feel about our brothers and sisters abroad when we even deign to think about them. Gallup has a new poll that does just that, with some surprising results.
So, without further ado, America's most hated nations: Number five, the Palestinian Authority. Number four, Syria. Number three, Pakistan. Number two, North Korea. And the nation Americans feel least favorable about is Iran. So, who do we love? In fifth place, France. Then Japan, then Germany. Those last two show that Americans can really get over the past. Great Britain gets second place, and we don't have the luxury to travel very far to find our bosom buddy.
Canada is number one. It looks like we have entirely gotten over the War of 1812. Does anybody even remember what it was about? Hint: if it had gone the other way, there would be no Canada today.
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People hate the abuse of power. People love the proper use of power, like using it to lift people out of poverty.
Seconded.
I support that too.
I find these findings a bit superficial. What is it that Americans specifically like or dislike?
usa its game over china is the new world power your should pack up and throw your self off the bridge.
China is overrated.
What does overrated even mean in this context? It's about production and results, and China's been blowing the field away for a while now. Of course, they do it with miserable wages and the ability of the government to effectively seize any land they want to turn it over to business...in short, the Koch Brothers' dream, but China's been forging new relationships in countries where the U.S. has been lagging, and can outproduce us practically at will.
China is growing but the USA still has time as a superpower. Its not as clear cut as you are making it.
China will starve their citizens and treat them as puppets in the end time
Seriously? China the new world power? China has 1,344,130,000 people and 1,344,129,500 of them live is complete poverty. Fix yourself before you go stomping around the globe beating your creepy little chests wagging your tiny little thingies at the world.
Seriously? Obviously you don't travel much because if you did you'd see more than 500 Chinese citizens with money to travel. There is absolutely a growing middle class, unlike in certain other countries.
where did you get the numbers? Ilievd there for 40 years. I am still going back almost every year. Your figure are from Qing Danasty, 100yrs ago. US has 16 trillions debt, every American has $50000. If every household has 4 people then they owe $200,000.
Exactly! Right on!
Your comment is obviously biased. Also, it 's really ridiculous and absurd, actually, China is a growing and developing country as you know, and I know most Chinese people can not lead an extremely comfortable lives as people in western countries do. And there is a lack of human right in China, it does.
But so what? Rome was not built in one day. I do not know and do not care which country are you from, and where you got those ridiculous data, I can tell you, one day, Chinese people can also enjoy their citizenships in China by the effort made by my generation.
China is superpower? haha, go to China, dear! Its the people that make a nation strong, and China has slaves not people!
And you, quite obviously, have no idea what you are talking about.
Clueless !
It is not appreciated people are treated as slaves
Cheap talk from an uninformed person.
Suzie,
You are living in hallucination. Get out to see the real world when you are sober.
China has civil rights problems and a wealth gap that makes the US look socialist, they do not have innovator businesses, i.e. they make $ money by undercutting each other. The Chinese only care about making the next buck and don't care about their fellow Chinese as people. For example look at the baby formula spiked with melamine to up N content. When I visit I cook my own food b/c you can't trust the restaraunts.
China will never overcome the US. CN will have a civil war in the next 20 years.
Only war mongers like you are praying for that... While the US breaks down by the seams, deserving so with people like you!
Hello Troll, here you will find actual worthwhile facts that matter. Your worthless opinion is of course, your legal right...but still worthless. http://www.gallup.com/poll/161372/egypt-favorable-rating-slips-two-decade-low.aspx#2
Only Chinese people always underestimate the Chinese people.
With the growing middle class in China, it will be very difficult for the government to continue to control the people the way it does.
I am most surprised about U.K. when you consider that there is a communication gap in between
the world don't like us because we got to much of greed and ignorance respect is love and we all are human that is why Obama is there to explain the world that is why 9/11 was done million reason but the most important is that GOD IS THE WOMAN and Obama mama is everybody mama and rest of the world don't have a plate of food and here some much money and nobody care about the world we leave in same planet Earth we all go back to the earth and if we human we supposed to be humanitarian GOD bless who invented GOD until we all go over the cliff ,,hope SOON..
Americans are the most charitable people in the world, giving billions a year to the rest of the world.
Americans are generous, but not even close to the most generous, esp. when you consider the US counts military aid (like $3 billion a year to Israel) as 'aid'. The only reason the total dollar amount is the most, is because of the high population of the US. Look at this chart and the PER PERSON figure, Gary... the US isn't even in the top 10.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0930884.html
That's not true. EU people are the most charitable people in the world. You must to learn little more at school.
Hey fool you call it goods to kill hundreds of innocent people because you fools got no guts
Yes, they give to escape taxes, and steal other countries to make you rich. Fair enough!
I agree!!!! I always tell people, the most generous country in in the face of the earth is the US. i am so lucky living here.... GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
You need a psychiatrist. Remedial reading and writing might help also.
Needs to sober up too.
There isn't enough room to adequately describe how big of a FAIL that post was on so many levels.
You're an idiot!
I hope you find the drug rehab center that you clearly need so desperately
what the hell? do you even know what your talking about, where are you from? where ever it is go back there.
About the War of 1812:
We forgive you for starting it and invading our country.
And it appears as though you forgive us for burning the White House and winning.
What's a small war between friends, eh?
We were just trying to...er... give Canada back to the French! Maybe you could come repeat the treatment on the White House?
We would, but it's been a bad winter, Montcalm, maybe next year
Never mind the whitehouse – but we'd be happy to take care of the Kardashians for you (nice little island up above the arctic circle – NO tv cameras – NO reporters)
Couldn't you find someplace even more remote for the Kardashians? No place is too far away!
Maybe Montcalm, had the French won the French and Indian War(1754-1763) over the British, things may well have been better all the way around!
You "adults" are acting immature. Why are you even commenting on past wars like 1812 and the relationship between America and Great Britain? These countries are allies, and if they couldn't get past conflicts then the U.K. would not be part of NATO, nor would've the U.S. been able to help European forces in either world war and emerge a world power because they still carried mistrust of their former enemy. Now, on to your illogical slander of these countries suggested. YOU RETARDS. This is only a survey of the American population's opinion! OF COURSE you and these idiotic tag-alongs have different opinions! There is no reason, however, to make stupid arguments about which country is better or which government is destined to fall. Oh, and that doesn't mean that you can make racial, political, or economical slurs about that country's population either.
I am an American. And I'm not proud of it. We disgrace every country who calls us friend. To all the Canadians and British and Muslims and any other people of other countries, I APOLIGIZE. Our country, to put literally, is an arrogant, obese, and sleazy salesman who double-crosses and tries to uphold its own written laws by deciding when and where to enforce them. I also believe that the other half of this country is like minded and would also apologize on the behalf of these moronic comments. I wish that people were less blinded. As for the American relationship with other countries. I could care less. I'm just waiting for the U.S. to make another mistake that causes death. I really am sorry.
hey fool shut up,
not you walkin mouth, but you da fool above him
I love the Sarcasm, beats the dumb comments on this troll blog.
After all the harm that we Americans did to Iran, why should we hate that country? It should be the other way around! In 1953, through the use of the cursed C.I.A., we overthrew the populist leader Mosadegh and put in the hated and horrific Shah Reza Pahlavi in his place and set up the infamous SAVAK used in state terrorism and now, we're trying to starve that country into submission. Enough is enough!
Stop claiming you're a marine. If you were, you're a traitor. If you weren't, you're a liar.
Before calling someone a liar, check the historical facts! CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected leader. Why? He nationalised Irans oil. That upset the USA and UK. The goverment that followed was horrible. The Savak were pretty much like the Gestapo in Nazi Germany. All these events led to the Iranian Revolution and we all know how that turned out. If the US never interferred with Irans politics in the 50's, we might have had a different Iran today.
Poor Yakobi, he still believe that patriotism is a good thing. He never got that fact that patriotism is just a word to control people to do whatever the gov, ask you to do.
let him say whatever his views are....after all america is a free speech country! why you are calling him liar or traitor? you treating him like he is living in a communist or some tinpot dictator's country. let him speah his mind, please!
You are wrong ! ... Mossadeq was not ... democratically ... elected to anything ! .... he was appointed and then dismissed by the SHAH ... according to the laws of the country .
Try Iran history 101 @ your nearest community college !
Hey you sheep loving piece of feces, get back in your cave and only come out when you hear the drone.
as an Iranian i was shocked when read this CNN text!!!
Why American hate Iranian?
did we any bad thing to American?
did we start any war to America?
did we bomb o explode or killed any American like Pakistan or Saudi Arabia or ...?
just wanna know why you hate us?
you really don't know what your country doing with us?!!you know many Innocent Iranian people every year killing by old airplanes, because of the sanction that we can not buy airplane equipments even for airliner
Understand that in the US, there is a difference between disliking a country and disliking a people. I know Iranians that live here in the US and they have absolutely no problem with anybody. The truth is that Iran wants nukes and is building them as we speak. That is the only reason Iran is disliked.
there is no surprise....iran is most hated country in america because pro-israeli lobby group (e,g., AIPAC) control media and politicians. they want to make sure that american people are getting daily dose hatred of iran. Israel doesn't want iran to have nukes (me too but not for the same reason) because she is afraid of shifting of power in the middle-east......and doesn't want to be challenged by another nuclear power in the region for her aggressive behaviour.
Would be nice to have a link to the gallup poll CNN...that's kind of mandatory when you're referencing them in an article.
BTW – here it is: http://www.gallup.com/poll/161159/americans-least-favorable-toward-iran.aspx
Thanks, I get tired of these teasers for his show...
Sure, bringing up the poll starts the discussion – but what's the point of calling yourself a "global analyst" if you don't do any analyzing?
Thanks for the link! Seriously pathetic that the poll is not linked to in this article.
Interesting how the countries that Americans hate are all countries that have never done anything to America. In fact, Iranians, Palestinians, and Pakistanis have many more reasons to hate America than the other way around.
Riiiight. Other than the taking hostage of our embassy staff, hiding bin Laden, starting the Korean War and global terrorism, those countries never did us any harm.
Read some history for a change.
What about you killing babies for oil?
What about you blowing up babies for your religion?
YOU should read some history: the 1953 CIA coup in Iran, the US sponsoring of a right-wing dictatorship in South Korea, US support for apartheid in Palestine, etc. And for Pakistan, drone attacks.
And as I said, apart from hostage-taking, Iran, North-Korea, Syria, and Pakistan have never done anything to America itself.
How about stealing other countries for resources?
You have got to be kidding me. I don't care what tragedies a country has endured, I cannot hold them in a favorable light if they dance in the streets when thousands of my fellow citizens are killed, or have mass demonstrations calling for the annihilation of the USA and Israel. You know who else endured harsh treatment at the hands of the United States and other European powers? Germany after World War I (Incredibly harsh fines and limitations, absolutely destroyed their economy). Were they excused for their actions in World War Two?
I'm not saying we're angels when in it comes to our foreign relations, but handing out excuses for terrorists is a form of cowardice I find disgusting.
This poll reads like a politician wrote it.
We like you guys too... mostly... /signed Canada
We like your beer, ice hockey, and girls. The rest you can keep.
Sorry but the girls here like guys with big weewee unlike yours which are just tiny.
The stupid things we post on the internet. We will be going to war pretty soon
And it will end up just being another Vietnam again.
Everything is Vietnam. Every conflict since Vietnam has been Vietnam, from Grenada to Panama to Libya. They're all Vietnams. Well, to a hyperbolic paranoid who thinks small.
Keep thinking big, you guys have started all kind of wars, but never been able to finish it.
its cuz we haven't let our armies play for keeps since ww2. its hard for ANY army to fight against a guerrilla army, but an army with one, sometime two, hand tied behind its back due to un regulations and the geneva convention while the enemy you face has none of those qualms is always in a tight spot
Canada did not win the War of 1812. No one did, really. It was more of a tie.
It was a war between the U.S. and the Empire of Great Britain. The U.S. was defending its sovereignty: over impressment and British guns being given to Native Americans.
sigh... 200 years and you're still not over it. Yes Brad, dear, it was a "tie". We understand.
it was a tie. nobody gained or lost any territory after the treaty, we finally got our army in gear and were pushing the british back and they were getting cuffed around by france, i believe, and wanted to free up the "full might of the british empire" so we called it off and everyone went home
That sounds kind of ironic coming from you. It seems like all you Canadians can do is remind everybody and his brother about how you "won" that stupid, miscellaneous war.
American, loves big guns, big boot, big fries, big burgers, big army, big jets. Americans have big heads,big a$$, small weewee,big feet,big mouth,big ideas,big debts,big thoughts. The bigger you think, the faster the downfall is.
If you're not an American, you live in a country that has risen out of abject poverty thanks to American big ideas.
You're welcome.
Ha ha ha, you're a big joke.
Big truth = big reality = big joke to big dummy.
I forgot to say, americans love big lies, big denying, big oil well, big massacre,big killing, big cowards.
As an American, I am absolutely tired of people from other countries presuming to tell me what America and Americans are like. The fact is, mot failing goverments use the US simply as a distraction from their own failing domestic crap holes they call a government. The ultimate truth is this, if your country was in the same position the US is in, as being the super power, you would do the same thing. People are people and if you think your country is better, then why are there so many of your people here. Because without knowing what country you are from, there are thousands of people from your country living here. Go ahead, insult them.
This is actually a really stupid article. I thought it was going to go into detail on why America views a country a certain way–not just a rattling off of names...
The article is fine. If you read even a little bit of news about these countries, it is clear why the public opinion is so low on these countries. This article is certainly not meant for people who are oblivious to basic and common knowledge about the current topics in the news. Fareed's articles assume that you at least have a minimum and basic level of background level information. Or, there is always the entertainment section for you to read if you do not understand his GPS articles.
This also shows that the love and hate for one another is mutual.The countries American hate most same countries hate american and vv. But in my opinion this hate and love is for the policies of there respective political regimes (US or otherwise) and not for the people to people.
I can't speak for the people who live in countries that don't have a free press or freedom of expression or live under a religious totalitarian government which poisons them with hateful lies, but I can say the American people do not hate the Iranian, Syrian or North Korean people. Actually, we feel very sorry for them and wish they could overthrow their brutal regimes. After all, we believe in freedom for all people.
The Pakistanis and Palestinians, however, are a different story. They've chosen terrorism as their path. No sympathy for them.
Ha ha ha, it amaze me to hear americans saying that they have freedom of speech, when every telephone lines, the internet and everything else is monitored. And any american citizen can be put in jail without criminal charge or trial. You call that a free country with freedom of expression? Ha ha ha, you guys are a big joke.
Here's what most Americans think of non-industrialized nations:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-04-21/
ARE there any non-industrialized nations anymore?
Hey Fareed, I hate to burst your bubble but the country I love the most, my new love is Afghanistan. Well, not their government, customs or culture to be precise but the country itself. I am a lover of landscapes, mountains and valleys and boy o boy, Afghanistan is one beautiful country. It used to be Switzerland until I saw the natural beauty of Afghanistan. Then again, I love all the countries of the world because they all have natural geological beauty. Unfortunatley, the customs and ways of life in some of those countries are another story though.
@Trailer trash - Afghanistan is cool now. Pakistan sux.
So arrogant, Canada is what America should aim to be. Too bad the war of 1812 wasn't the other way around... At least Canada is a peaceful country even with ALL the trouble the US brings it to! Fewer guns, universal health care, universal education.... And no tea GOPers!
And less nut case.
You Jews, are benefited more in Canada by murdering and keep attacking Christian-Ethiopians in Canada as well as in U.S.
Canada, which is less developed and funded(Americans investment place), never detected Jewish as dominant of Christian-Canada.
Just recently, the Canadian Federal Agent name Jeffrey(Jewish) got caught red-handed, when he was selling Canada's secrets to Russia.
Who will trust you(Jew)?
Only the fool trust you.
That's nothing compare ot US, how about your ex president Nixon and the Watergate scandal, that's just one of many scandals? What about everyone shooting everyone in a school everyday in US? How about many presidents having a white house liaison in the white house. Many Jews were parts of the staff. How about the Jews holding the strings for the US since so many years. You're just the puppets and being toyed around by Jews.
We need a poll to tell us that Americans are racists? Please. Every country we hate is dark skinned, every one we like is white.
Of the 20-30 nations we've bombed and invaded in the past 30 years, all are dark skinned (except Yugoslavia).
Americans=Racists. (Not all of em', just about half).
I would say 90%.
Canada and the United States have the longest border in the world, of course we like each other, we both love maple syrup, we are both meat and potato sort of people, we both understand how much our freedom cost and know how great it is to be born in free and democratic societies. The world just has to catch up. God Bless the U.S.A and God Bless Canada. Although I think he or she alredy has.
Peace
Unfortunately you are just one of the only 10% left in the US who appreciate Canada. Wished more Americans would make as much sense as you do.
Peace
Long may you run, my American brother, long may you run.
Most lovely, their is no any difference b/n U.S. and Canada, U.S.A.
During the most real time, the same Great-Britain Heroes, shade their bloods, faced hardships, starvations and wars, to fulfil their bright future dreams, the PROSPEROUS FREE SOCIETY OF NORTH-America, on the top of the World.
Having mentioned the above, of course, there were/are some Family matters, that escalated from one to the other. But, that has been solved Civilly, by the same Family members.
My dream is America to be a CHRISTIAN LAND.
Christians has no place to exercise our Religion and Faith, freely. We are being prosecuted and watched badly by others(strangers).
I also, have fear that America and Canada, America will be taken over by non-Christians. That will be the darkest time of America.
When I read the Oldest North-American English literatures, which is more straightforward, those Great-Britain heroes, who were/are the founders of these lands, they said,"If we will alive and being immortal, we will enjoy the fruits of our work".
"As you keep enjoying our hard work results, have thoughts less for us and more for America's future".
However, as I keep see it first-hand in my own young life, at present, some/more Americans(if they considered), are collaborated with America's enemies:-
1st, to destroyed the foundations of America and its Great History,
2nd, to dominated America by their own Cultures and Faiths and to seed/implement fear among Christians, not to live freely in America.
America, you brought them...to cut you from your roots, and to implant their bitter seeds.
WAKE-UP, before it is too late and cost US more. This is not fun.
Sadly not many Americans know that Americans and Canadian come from the same Irish, European north American Natives people blood. Almost no Americans are aware that Louisiana were populated by Canadians from New-Brunswick Canada that were deported by the British into Louisiana. Not many Americans know that a large percentage of Americans today are coming from Canadian and American ancestors, people married each other across the border back then.
Canada rocks!!
You're right! It does
Canada is King! we rock eh?! i hate that eh stuff lol
On the other hand, 196 countries were asked which country they dislike the most. America scored on top of the list, followed by India.
I kissed my way up to VP at a health insurance company. Now I take over $600,000 of your health care dollars for NO VALUE ADDED to your health care. And that’s just me. Now think about how many other VPs, Directors, Managers, etc. are at my company alone. Now multiply that by thousands of others at hundreds of other health insurance companies. From 10 to 25% of your health care dollars go towards administration that adds NO VALUE to your health care. But my company’s PAC dollars will continue to fool you little people into thinking that a single payer system will be bad. Little people like you are so easy to fool. Little people also don’t realize that a single payer system is the ONLY system that would allow little people (as an entire country) to negotiate better health care prices. Little people don’t realize that the Medical Cartels already know that. And that is the reason why the Medical Cartels spend so much PAC money from the hospitals and doctors lobbying against a single payer system. Some little people say that a single payer system would cost you little people more. But if that were true, then wouldn’t the hospitals and doctors WANT that extra money? Yes they would. So why do the Medical Cartels lobby against a single payer system? It’s because the Medical Cartels know it would allow little people to negotiate better health care prices. And that’s what the Medical Cartels are afraid of. Period.
But us big wigs at insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmacy companies don’t ever need to worry about health care no matter what it costs. We get our health care paid for one way or another by you little people. And we get the little people that work at our companies to contribute to our PACs. And us big wigs say it’s to protect the little peoples’ jobs. But in reality it would be in the little peoples’ best interest to NOT contribute to the PAC. Again, little people are so easy to be fooled. I won’t ever have to worry about losing my job with so many little people being brain washed by the Medical Cartels’ PAC money. Not only that, the Medical Cartels’ PAC money is used to elect so many republicans that will never allow a single payer system. Republicans have always fought against any meaningful health care reform. But that’s what our Medical Cartels’ PACs pay them for. Politicians can be bought so easily.
Pretty soon the only people that will be able to afford health care is us big wigs. And that’s the way it should be. We don’t want you little people using up the resources when we need them. And once again, I thank you little people for capping my SS tax at the $113,700 level. Now I only pay 1.2% SS tax and you little people pay 6.2%. Also, thank you for extending my tax breaks. I’m using the extra money on my vacation houses.
Is there any reason why Americans dislike these countries other than what is fed to them about these places by our media and news outlets?
In the UK, there is a growing feeling that the USA no longer values our friendship. If evidence was needed look no further than your presidents support for our citizens in the Falklands. If North Korea decide to pick a fight as it looks quite likely I for one don't feel that we should be drawn in. Friendship should be a two way street
Don't feel bad Philip, we in Canada have been feeling the same way for many years. And for the same reason as you do. Not sure Canada will be joining the Allies this time.
One thing is certain here and that is the American people will believe almost anything that the right-wing media tells them as long as it's politically correct. We Americans need to change out priorities and fast! We need to quit running Europe and the Middle East and mind our own business for a change!
Quigley, that was the most intelligent comments here today. Sadly it will take more than that to change the others to think the same way as we both do. There is nothing like people minding their own business, it's the best way to avoid creating ourselves enemies.
Allah, Mohammed and Qran also agree with you. All Islamists like banasy, chrissy, saywhat, bobcat in a hat, krm10007, quigley also agree with you completely. Of course there has to be unanimous agreement between the aliases of the same person.
I totally agree with you and ThinkBig, Quigley. That bozo above posting as Allah(or is that Phunnie boy?) is just another lame brained Tea Partier who can't think their way out of a wet paper bag!
Iran and North Korea are already a part of the "Axis of Evil". Now Pakistan has joined the "axis of evil club". Nobody can blame Pakistan for lack of trying - Pakistanis sheltered Osama, sheltered KSM, shoot girls who want to go to school, kill minorities, burn down christian houses, kill minority in the name of blasphemy law, kidnapped Weinstein, and beheaded Daniel Pearl. Pakistanis have so many accomplishments to justify being on that list.
And your point is?
The point is that both the current and previous administrations have only used carrot with Pakistan and not enough stick like they did with Iran and North Korea. Low public opinion of Pakistan prevents justifying so much aid to Pakistan. Both public opinion and Pakistan's behavior justifies implementing strict sanctions against Pakistan, just like those against Iran and North Korea.
;-( Can't we all just get along...... WHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
It's quite funny actually how we have bought into hating exactly the same countries our goverment wants us to hate.
People in America would never like to be told by the government whom to like. However, it is hard for an American to like a country which harbors terrorists and shoots girls going to school.
Our governments have more sophisticated way of influencing our opinion towards things! So don't believe everything you hear from politicians and media.
not so true. our media and congress (though our media) tell us every second who are our enemies and who should we love or hate! How would you know good or bad if you didn't hear from media or never went to those countries you love and hate. And yeah, don't bother to tell me that every american have seen
/visited every country on the planet earth. Somebody has to tell us so its our media brain-washed who receive billions of dollars from their sonsors, i.e., big corporations, lobbyists and interest groups. These same groups pay to your congress and tell them to tell us their likes and dislikes. So its not as simple as you think!!!
because our politicians have pretty sophisticated way of brain-washing american publics mind! lobbysts/AIPAC, media bankroll these politicians/policy makers to tell you who should you like or dislike? And you think that its your own brain letting you decide!!! We believe what media/politicians tell us and we don't have any other way to find out ourselves. We think and believe that these politicians/media always tell us truth but far from it........just think about invasion of iraq....do you remember what these politicians told us about iraq having WMD? There were none and they all knew it was not true butthey fool us!
Best friends of USA = UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand
"YOU should read some history"
Hitting yourself with the book doesn't count as reading it.
"the 1953 CIA coup in Iran,"
Yes we other threw a communist on request from the british after made a move to steal their property, installed a "dictator" who's "regime" had the best record of protecting women's rights in the muslim world, communist and islamists provocateurs were the only ones having a tantrum, if they could do so in public, the average iranian would tell you las vegas of the middle east was better day than the current failed state run by greasy mullah morons.
the US sponsoring of a right-wing dictatorship in South Korea," Hahahah, are you serious? I don't even know where to begin, so let me ask you this: which korea is an economic powerhouse with human rights that currently up to par if not better than whats found in most western nations, and which korea is insular, starving live action role play or Orwell's 1984? Hows that for some validation of US foireng policy, need I go on
" US support for apartheid in Palestine, etc."
Who will set the Muslim to rule over the Jew? Allah... Until the Jew hides behind the rock and the tree. But the rock and tree will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, a Jew hides behind me, come and kill him.' Except for the Gharqad tree, which is the tree of the Jews. We believe in this Hadith. We are convinced also that this Hadith heralds the spread of Islam and its rule over all the land... Oh Allah, accept our martyrs in the highest heavens... Oh Allah, show the Jews a black day... Oh Allah, annihilate the Jews and their supporters... Oh Allah, raise the flag of Jihad across the land... Oh Allah, forgive our sins
A popular Palestinian proverb.
"And for Pakistan, drone attacks."
a nation which provided sanctuary and assistance to the taliban, and as matter of fact largely invented the taliban, LONG before the first drone took to the skies. Excuse me if I cannot summon any tears for them.
"And as I said, apart from hostage-taking, Iran, North-Korea, Syria, and Pakistan have never done anything to America itself."
So your objectively wrong and won't admit it.
Reg: But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, viniculture, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
PFJ Member: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace? SHUT UP!
are you a python character?
And Syria cried out, where are you fellow Arabs, and Palestine laughed
Did Canada participate in WWII....oh ya I remember they chose to storm the empty beach at Normandy ( Canada couldn't control Panama City Beach Fl during spring break) so threatening not to participate during the next world war will not keep many of us up at night. Keep riding the coat tails of the US, we are used to it. Your do however produce dam good syrup. Good night Canada!
Troll alert !!!!!!!!!
dats right fool
I'm Canadian. So it's nice to be # 1 in anything. But I don't know where Australia is in this list. I would have thought it would be in the top three at least, maybe even # 1.
From Maine I would agree. Canada is our best friend. Lot of history here in Maine and Quebec and also New Brunswick.
Canada is a great friend and neighbor for America. They certainly give the US less to worry about than our southern neighbor.
Canada also defended the entire Atlantic coast and shipping lines to Britian for a large part of WWII while the America fleet was busy in the pacific. They protected the entire Eastern coast of Canada and the US from German U boat attacks.
They have bled and died beisde American soldiers, in many wars. Including WWII, the Korean War, and Afghanistan.
They also contibute great numbers of soldiers to UN peacekeeping missions around the world.
They have given America a remarkable number of great Actors, Comedians, and Musicians, to enjoy, considering their population is much smaller.
Canadians are a people any American can be proud to call friend, Eh!
A great number? A few and we appreciate the gesture, there are certainly worse countries to live next too.
Indeed man! I'm American, and i have no reason to dislike Canada. I have many friends and family who live there. I'm also Native American, so that probably goes without saying huh? LOL
America yours is a very small populated country and you are going to fall demographically and geographically so think outside America the world is very very big so your opinion doesn't matter
The right question is: which are US-friendly nations, and which not. USA cannot afford to ask, "who do Americans like and dislike", because wrong, non-productive South Korea collaboration, brough USA big failures, not only in international markets, but also in USA.
Products or services sold in US soil coming from socialist and communist monopolies. Are they really better and cheaper in USA? Is it happening the same in the IT businesses?
In Mexico food and medicine do not pay VAT, and because it is produce in Mexico, it would not cost more in USA, but the surprise it is that the prices in USA surpass several times the most expensive price for the same product in a VIP store located in Mexico, and the quality is not even better that the worse store in Mexico. Some of the Mexican brands are not even located in the States; they are not selling directly they are using small intermediaries for their product distribution in the States, most of them located in San Antonio, TX. It is time to produce in the States the Mexican food we use to import because it is so expensive and it is not the same quality and price that you can find in any market in Mexico.
In IT, it seems that we live in India instead of USA. The Indian origin monopolies have closed almost all the doors for Americans, they control the IT industry, we import consultant hours On Site or Offshore, also there is a great need to have more American working hours in IT. We use to surpass in productivity any country in the world and today there is no need to compete because the IT agreements are done at the level of the owners or shareholders instead of expertise IT directors or managers. Also the prices are not lower; they are charging American IT prices per consultant but with long term projects. The true is that USA should apply Made in America is this economic sector as a national strategy.
So Americans are happy to hate the nations they are told to hate and are ready to love those they believe they can manipulate.
But what about Israel? Did not you receive the instructions?
i don't know...
Americans know little about other countries. They simply make their choices, based on what the media publishes, which is not a very intelligent way to make those choices.
My choices would be based on personal experiences, more than on news coverage, from having been there, for likes, and how dangerous they are to visit, for dislikes. There are only a limited number of countries, I would consider safe to travel in, these days.
If you are interested in what Americans think and want actual detail, not just highlights, the GallUp poll results may be found here. http://www.gallup.com/poll/161372/egypt-favorable-rating-slips-two-decade-low.aspx#2 Hopefully this will dissuade the trolling and Internet tough guy acts that appear rampant above.
what about mexico?
Canada is number one!? Who gives a sh!t about Canada? Canadian's are morons. The country has nothing to offer but Mountie's and penny pinching tubs of lard. I'm not even sure why Canada has a military. Who would want to invade that desolate wasteland? And France at number 5 is really pushing it. The French are coward's and their entire culture screams, "I'm gay." American's are extremely obese, lazy, arrogant, selfish @ssholes that think they're better than everyone else. I love and respect the USA military but the US populous I could do without. Who would want to be apart of a culture that believes getting fat off fast food and drinking beer is how to live life? Try a freaking salad or God forbid you try a piece of fruit! I know I'll get a lot of hate from this comment but before you reply just know that I can't really care less. Any comment from someone I don't know is worth to me about as much as a bag of dog sh!t so do with that what you will.
Actually you're a pile of dog sh!t... And a part of why America is hated soo much. Reread your own comment, fool. Such ignorance and hate... Too bad it's incurable, just like America's debt crisis, war monger etc... I could go on.
From a residence of Canada, the peaceful neighbor that get drag into your country's sh!t too MUCH!
we like countries we ressurected after WWII and subsequently fueled our economic boom. We dislike nations that have done nothing but give us trouble since then.
I am very surprise there was no Israel and that is why I have lost faith in modern surveys. I don't think it is accurate enough.
Interesting how the poll results show the basic reasons why there is very little progress in this society in comparison to central European countries. Sad, sad, sad.
I'm wondering how America feels about Russia? lol
America is a great country and its people, on average, are loving and caring.....American way of life and culture is loved and followed throughout the world. But unfortunately, American politics is very dirty and biased towards certain nations for very little or no good reason. American politics is heavily influenced by big corporations who lobby and donate millions of dollars to individuals and two political parties. Also, groups like AIPAC and neoconservative think tanks have too much influence on American domestic and foreign policies, especially in the Middle-Eastern affairs. As long groups like these have imbalanced/biased influence in the American politics, there will be very little love for America in many parts of the world (if we care about their love and affection!).