Europe influence seen as positive

[dArKeR]

The survey found that, on average, 58% of people want Europe to play a bigger role than the US in world affairs.

France emerged as the single country with the best reputation abroad.

The survey was carried out by polling group GlobeScan and the University of Maryland with some questions provided by the BBC World Service.

Of the 23,518 people polled, 47% said the US had a negative effect on the world, with US neighbours and allied countries being among its biggest critics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4413913.stm

[mopinko]

1. US neighbours and allied countries being among its biggest critics.

this is why i am hoping for a latin american pope. i know jp chased all the liberation theology jesuits out. but the hope, just the hope, of a burr under the saddle on our southern border, like jp in poland, well, it just warms my heart. (note- i am a devout atheist myself. but i like to hope that if religion is good for anything at all, it might be good for peace.)

[Flagg]

2. "France emerged as the single country with the best reputation abroad."

The Freepers are gonna go nuts over that one.

[BulletproofLandshark]

3. They might

except most freeps don't have the intellectual curiosity to go to a foreign news website.

[dArKeR]

4. Most Americans don't have the curiosity to go to a foreign country.

Unfortunately only some 5% of American's have a passport. I'd guess about 2% never have used them or got them thinking they needn't them for Mexico or Canada. I'd guess 2% went to a foreign "tourist" area for total less than a week. I'd guess .005% Americans have been in a foreign country over 3 weeks.

I really don't understand this. I thought Americans are supposed to be great adventurers? We certainly have the money to travel.

I'm sure that the Limbutt, O'Reilly, Hanity... type of ignorance in America would be erased if every American had to spend 2 months overseas. I think this should be a mandatory program.

[Megahurtz]

7. This is exactly why

this Administration wants to keep it's citizens here.
Keep 'em stupid.:dunce:

[54anickel]

6. France quietly laying the ground work?

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/rkirby040405.html

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Who would have figured? Who still remembers? I mean, what is it about the French that they are able to sniff these things out anyway? Perhaps I'm simply predisposed to the top-down philosophy of analysis while the Swiss are more inclined to pursue a bottom up approach? Who knows? After dusting off my trusty economics history book, I realize that it was France redeeming their dollars for gold, at the then official price of $35 per ounce, at the direction of Charles de Gaulle - that knocked the world off the gold standard collapsing the Bretton Woods System just over 30 years ago during the Nixon administration? All of this got me thinking. Is this a case of, Oops!...I Did It Again or would this encore sophomoric performance be better described as foreshadow; as in do it to me - Baby One More Time?

[Frederik]

5. "55% of US citizens

felt greater European influence would be a bad thing".

Because the Europeans conspire with Saddam and Kim Jung-Il to encourage promiscuous and homosexual behaviour and Christ-hatin' atheism among America's young.

[sonicx]

8. What's with the Philippines?

Countries where people regarded the US most favourably were the Philippines, South Africa, India, Poland and South Korea.