and they are US. . . Americans (particularly conservatives) love to denigrate the French as egotistic and rude. Well according to a marketing survey and analysis (Anholt-GMI Nation Brands Index) most of the world see America as arrogant, unfriendly, and uncultured.
The US ranked 11th in the Brands Index, which asks people around the world to rate 25 countries according to their cultural, political and investment potential and other criteria. Australia received the highest overall score, with respondents expressing “an almost universal admiration of its people, landscapes and living and working environment”, according to the report.
Of course the fact that most of the rest of the world is less likely to buy American products and, therefore, employee American workers doesn’t seem to bother us – after all we’re number 1 — errr — number 11, actually
