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I heard people interviewed on American public radio yesterday about this who were either from Pew directly or some other org who read the report carefully  and analyzed it - anyway they said almost everyone has a bad opinion of Americans right now... including Americans... He said the polling discovered that 70 some percent of Americans find Americans rude, greedy and with 'somewhat of a violent streak'. Well as they say in rural America... "A skunk smells his own hole first..."

The host of the show said "Hmmmmm looks like we have an image problem..." When I heard that I about got in touch with my personal 'violent streak'... and wanted to tear the radio out of the car and toss it at someone... preferably at a certain radio host... unfortunately he was a couple thousand km away.

This problem is a lot more than just about 'image' or what others think...

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." - Peter Steiner

by dryfly (jjwhodat at hotmail dot com) on Fri Jun 24th, 2005 at 07:03:53 AM EST
Actually, check out, the 70% of Americans who believe "Greedy" characterises Americans was the highest of all countries polled!

And, guess which was the only country where only a minority agreed Americans are greedy?
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If you used counter-intuition, you got it right: it was France!

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Sun Jun 26th, 2005 at 07:29:18 AM EST
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