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What the British think of us
Topic Started: Jul 3 2006, 04:46 PM (290 Views)
British_Pharaoh
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luvkm15,Jul 3 2006
11:45 PM
Tribesman23,Jul 3 2006
06:12 PM
kyyankgrrl,Jul 3 2006
09:46 PM
Britons tire of cruel, vulgar US: poll

LONDON (AFP) - People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll.

The United States is no longer a symbol of hope to Britain and the British no longer have confidence in their transatlantic cousins to lead global affairs, according to the poll published in The Daily Telegraph.

The YouGov poll found that 77 percent of respondents disagreed with the statement that the US is "a beacon of hope for the world".

As Americans prepared to celebrate the 230th anniversary of their independence on Tuesday, the poll found that only 12 percent of Britons trust them to act wisely on the global stage. This is half the number who had faith in the Vietnam-scarred White House of 1975.

A massive 83 percent of those questioned said that the United States doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks.

With much of the worst criticism aimed at the US adminstration, the poll showed that 70 percent of Britons like Americans a lot or a little.

US President George W. Bush fared significantly worse, with just one percent rating him a "great leader" against 77 percent who deemed him a "pretty poor" or "terrible" leader.

More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an imperial power seeking world domination. And 81 per cent of those who took a view said President George W Bush hypocritically championed democracy as a cover for the pursuit of American self-interests.

US policy in Iraq was similarly derided, with only 24 percent saying they felt that the US military action there was helping to bring democracy to the country.

A spokesman for the American embassy said that the poll's findings were contradicted by its own surveys.

"We question the judgment of anyone who asserts the world would be a better place with Saddam still terrorizing his own nation and threatening people well beyond Iraq's borders," the paper quoted the unnamed spokesman as saying.

"With respect to the poll's assertions about American society, we bear some of the blame for not successfully communicating America's extraordinary dynamism.

"But frankly, so do you (the British press)."

In answer to other questions, a majority of the Britons questions described Americans as uncaring, divided by class, awash in violent crime, vulgar, preoccupied with money, ignorant of the outside world, racially divided, uncultured and in the most overwhelming result (90 percent of respondents) dominated by big business.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060703/od_af...HNlYwNtZW5ld3M-

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Gotta admit, I pretty much agree with the British on this.

we never should have let you take over from us.

You didn't really have a choice

yeah we did

for some reason decades after WW2 Britain started to lose its identity. Handing back independence to India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma and many other colonies which were doing better under our rule than they are today. Most Indians emigrate over to Britain nowadays anyway.

Must have been a proud time to live in Britain during the 300 years of the greatest empire the world has known, now we just have the commonwealth and Northern Ireland
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I dont follow stereotypes like that, i dont have a problem with the american people, i will meet people i like and people i dont, like any other nation. However i hate it when americans especially say we speak funny, as its our language developed by us, so if anyone is speaking funny then it is you guys.

Also i do hate the Bush Administration, and i think if you did that survery again it might come back as about 90% think he is an incompetent bafoon. unlike what many people think you do need an friend on the worlds stage and you are quickly running out of them, we could be the next ones to go.

And like i have said on many occasions i dislike the media's attitude to the coalition forces (Not just british) if something bad happens its always coalition but if anything good happens then its the American forces in Iraq <_< that annoys the hell out of me

It was actual national Canada day in London the other day :)

An interesting poll in Britain would be, who do dislike more?

Americans?
French?
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2BCano,Jul 4 2006
06:41 AM
And like i have said on many occasions i dislike the media's attitude to the coalition forces (Not just british) if something bad happens its always coalition but if anything good happens then its the American forces in Iraq <_< that annoys the hell out of me

Really? I thought the British media was very anti-America. (Kind of like the American media....)

Tribesman23,Jul 4 2006
03:18 AM
cos we've been there many times

Yeah, but the world is different now.
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Element,Jul 4 2006
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Really? I thought the British media was very anti-America. (Kind of like the American media....)


Yeah, but the world is different now.

If it is Anti-American i have never seen it, :wacko:
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2BCano,Jul 4 2006
09:41 AM

An interesting poll in Britain would be, who do dislike more?

Americans?
French?

I bet it would come out 50-50
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Umm dunno prob French would nick it about 65-35
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If it was hate France or England, it would be 100-0 France. (For me anyway...)

I just hate France....
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Element,Jul 4 2006
10:26 PM
I just hate France....

Why? Because they refused to blindly follow the U.S. into war? You hate another country because they do what is in their best interests?
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I hate France through tradition, we have had countless Wars with them, and every time there is a war agaisnt a common enemy they are the first to wave the White Flag!!!!!

Although i do appreciate there Wine lol
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I have to confess....I like a lot of British movies, but I don't always catch what they're saying the first time I watch them....y'all are right, the Brits do speak quickly, and it doesn't help when they throw in British slang.

It's kinda funny.....one of the biggest American movies of all time, set in the South, Gone With The Wind....2 of the stars were British (Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard)!!! :lol:
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