The world still thinks Americans are "coolest": poll Reuters Tue, Sep 6, 2011 ..LONDON (Reuters) - They may be witnessing their global superpower influence decline in the face of challenges from other emerging players on the world stage, but Americans have been voted the world's "coolest nationality" in an international poll. Social networking site Badoo.com (http://www.badoo.com) asked 30,000 people across 15 countries to name the coolest nationality and also found that the Spanish were considered the coolest Europeans, Brazilians the coolest Latin Americans and Belgians the globe's least cool nationality. "We hear a lot in the media about anti-Americanism," says Lloyd Price, Badoo's Director of Marketing. "But we sometimes forget how many people across the world consider Americans seriously cool." Of course, not all Americans are cool far from it. Some like Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp and Quentin Tarantino are way cooler than others. Americans, however, are the dudes who invented cool and who still embody it in many fields from music to movies and TV to technology. "America," says Price, "boasts the world's coolest leader, Obama; the coolest rappers, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg; and the coolest man in technology, Steve Jobs of Apple, the man who even made geeks cool." Brazilians are ranked the second coolest nationality in the Badoo poll and the coolest Latin Americans, ahead of Mexicans and Argentinians. The Spanish, in third place, are the coolest Europeans. The French are voted cooler than the British, and Canadians cooler than the Belgians. This may come as a relief for Canadians, who are sometimes viewed as chronically uncool. Or, as Michael Ignatieff, the Canadian politician, once put it: "Paris, Texas stands as a metaphor for broken dreams; Paris, Saskatchewan just sounds ridiculous." THE 10 COOLEST NATIONALITIES - FIVE LEAST COOLEST 1. Americans - 1. Belgians 2. Brazilians - 2. Poles 3. Spanish - 3. Turks 4. Italians - 4. Canadians 5. French - 5. Germans 6. British 7. Dutch 8. Mexicans 9. Argentinians 10. Russians .. http://news.yahoo.com/world-still-thinks-americans-coolest-poll-120048216.html We faired really badly.... Even the Russians beat us...
American's know freedom of mind. In a sense, a place where the best of mankinds capabilities flourish within. i was born here and can see why i make the choices i do; internally people are good and at their best when empathy combines with personal responsibility. It proved to me that all are equally capable of both ends of the spectrum of 'good and bad'.
Anericans make me supsicious, spanish and french made me see you shouldnt do polls with teenagers. lol russia in top 10.
- Aaaah ! If true I'm extremely pleased to hear it. . It just goes to show that most people in the world are NOT as mean minded + unforgiving , as most americans. Perhaps most people , in the known world , also felt like that at "the fall of the Roman Empire ". WOT ? Hooray for Hollywood . Gawd Bless and keep America - Fek their cities , I'd like to see Grand Canyon / Monument Valley /Yosemite + other Nat. Parks again some time. btw - Liebe I noticed GERMANS are NOT rated , and not so COOL , are they ? Nor are white South Africans which you claim being connected with. - HAHAHAHA.
No you haven't. Badoo... is Latin America, Spain, Italy and France, isn't it? What does the rest of the world think?
Bishadi , I agree many people ARE INDEED good + trusting , which makes them vulnerable to accepting/believing what their political leaders/the ruling elite / those in power , , tell them. ..
It makes sense actually. Our movies and TV shows dominate the planet. You can go anywhere in the world, cut on the TV, and see dubbed American TV. And how are foreigners represented in American television? Strange and odd. So if you are a German watching a dubbed "Simon & Simon" or something like that, and they meet a German on the show, he will be portrayed as a weird foreigner. If you grow up watching that sort of TV your whole life, no surprise you would see Americans as cooler than your own nationality.
America excels in many categories. .....just not always the ones you want. I love my iPhone, iPad and now a 27 inch iMac. All designed in California. I'm building an American light aircraft. Almost all of my flying gear is American. Half my firearms are American. ..and I live in Levi's.
Do we need to go that far back? What did people think of the English when the English empire fell? If they were cool at the time, why are they considered so uncool today? Maybe us Americans can avoid the same pitfall.
