countries viewed most postitively / negatively

[luke]

the bbc has done a poll of 21 countries to see who is viewed most positively / most negatively out of the 16 countries they asked about ...

countries viewed most negatively;

iran 55%
pakistan 53
israel 51
north korea 48
united states 43
russia 42
china 40

and those viewed most positively;

germany 61%
united kingdom 58
canada 57
japan 56
european union 51
france 51
brazil 44

i'm most surprised where the united kingdom is!?

full poll details http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/06_02_09bbcworldservicepoll.pdf

countries polled Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama), Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Turkey, UK and USA

the poll only asked about china, france, united states, eu, japan, israel, north korea, canada, uk, russia, india, iran, brazil, pakistan, germany and south africa - be interesting to see a proper world wide one.

[mickyv]

And this was pre the Israeli mass murder in Gaza; Israel would probably would be at No.1 now.