AUChizad 0 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Liggidy Lizink Mar 05, 2007 07:44 PM Canada has most positive image worldwide: Survey Associated press LONDON – Israel, Iran and the United States were the countries with the most negative image in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations. Canada and Japan came out best in the poll, released Tuesday. The survey for the British Broadcasting Corp.'s World Service asked more than 28,000 people to rate 12 countries – Britain, Canada, China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Russia, the United States and Venezuela – as having a positive or negative influence on the world. Israel was viewed negatively by 56 per cent of respondents and positively by 17 per cent; for Iran, the figures were 54 per cent and 18 per cent. The United States had the third-highest negative ranking, with 51 per cent citing it as a bad influence and 30 per cent as a good one. Next was North Korea, which was viewed negatively by 48 per cent and positively by 19 per cent. Canada had the most positive rating in the survey, with 54 per cent viewing it positively and 14 per cent negatively. It was followed by Japan and France. Respondents were also asked their views of the 27-member European Union; 53 per cent saw it as positive and 19 per cent as negative. Britain, China and India were viewed more positively than negatively, while Russia had more negative than positive responses. Opinion on Venezuela was evenly split. "It appears that people around the world tend to look negatively on countries whose profile is marked by the pursuit of military power," said Steven Kull, director of the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes, which conducted the research along with pollster GlobeScan. "Countries that relate to the world primarily through soft power, like France and Japan and the EU in general, tend to be viewed positively," he added. Pollsters questioned about 1,000 people in 27 different countries, including the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Mexico and Australia; as well as four predominantly Muslim countries: Egypt, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia; and two countries with large Muslim populations: Lebanon and Nigeria. The respondents were interviewed in person and over the phone from November to mid-January. The margin of error ranges from 3.1 per cent to 4.9 per cent, depending on the country. Glass half full: We're ahead of Israel and Iran. Glass have empty: we're behind friggin Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela (which is less suprising). Discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Liger 0 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Who gives a rat's ass? I care what the world's opinion is of us about as much as I care what Susan Sarandon's opinion is on foreign policy and global warming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFTiger 282 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Been there. I like it here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexbo 104 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 What really matters is that people are lining up by the thousands at US Embassies all over the world for an opportunity at a visa to come to the US. When people are lining up at the borders to get out, then I will be worried about how the US is doing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,126 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Until folks stop dying to get in this country, I'll not beleive any poll that doesn't have us rated in the top 3 in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietfan 233 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 The best images belong to Canada (I didn't know they had an image), Japan (one of the most regimented, crowded, high stress, expensive cultures on earth IMO), and France ( I'm not the Francophobe many in this country are, but politics aside I still wouldn't put it near the top of my list)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger in Spain 0 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Vive la France! France bans citizen journalists from reporting violenceThe French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday on the night of March 3, 1991. The officers’ acquittal at the end on April 29, 1992 sparked riots in Los Angeles. If Holliday were to film a similar scene of violence in France today, he could end up in prison as a result of the new law, said Pascal Cohet, a spokesman for French online civil liberties group Odebi. And anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (US$98,537), potentially a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act. Senators and members of the National Assembly had asked the council to rule on the constitutionality of six articles of the Law relating to the prevention of delinquency. The articles dealt with information sharing by social workers, and reduced sentences for minors. The council recommended one minor change, to reconcile conflicting amendments voted in parliament. The law, proposed by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, is intended to clamp down on a wide range of public order offenses. During parliamentary debate of the law, government representatives said the offense of filming or distributing films of acts of violence targets the practice of “happy slapping,†in which a violent attack is filmed by an accomplice, typically with a camera phone, for the amusement of the attacker’s friends. The broad drafting of the law so as to criminalize the activities of citizen journalists unrelated to the perpetrators of violent acts is no accident, but rather a deliberate decision by the authorities, said Cohet. He is concerned that the law, and others still being debated, will lead to the creation of a parallel judicial system controlling the publication of information on the Internet. The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules. The journalists’ organization Reporters Without Borders, which campaigns for a free press, has warned that such a system could lead to excessive self censorship as organizations worried about losing their certification suppress certain stories. Mash here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,350 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 The best images belong to Canada (I didn't know they had an image), Japan (one of the most regimented, crowded, high stress, expensive cultures on earth IMO), and France ( I'm not the Francophobe many in this country are, but politics aside I still wouldn't put it near the top of my list)? I guess to be looked at in a good light, you have to do nothing to help with world order AND have the luxury of having the worlds largest superpower guarding your ass day and night so you DON'T have to do anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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