BBC poll: Germany most popular country in the world!

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unokitty

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Germany is the most positively viewed nation in the world in this year's annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service...

Who can doubt that there'll be a little more in the step of Chancellor Merkel because of what the poll reveals about attitudes to Germany?

After a year when she has been depicted offensively on placards in a Nazi uniform, in protests from Athens to Madrid, it turns out that many admire the country.

And in surprising places. In Spain, the recipient of a bailout with tight German strings attached, 68% said they felt Germany had "a mainly positive influence in the world".

In Britain, it was even higher at 78%. In France 81% - the poll indicates that four in every five French people look over the border with approval
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Und Wie Gehts!
Uno
 
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doubledeluxe

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Germany is awesome to visit. I can understand why they rank high. However politically I got a bad vibe from other Europeans regarding the power struggle in the EU.
 
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doubledeluxe

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The poll surveyed 25,000 people so probably a pretty broad demographic.

US numbers are dropping because of our spying.
 
Sulaco

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This poll is from 2012-2013. A lot has changed in the world since then.

I'd bet Russia and Israel's ratings have tumbled substantially.
 
Mai72

Mai72

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Where is Thailand, Vietnam and Laos? Thailand especially has a booming tourist sector. I'm also surprised to see South Korea on the list. It's freezing cold and xenophobia is a big problem there. Thailand is a very tropical country with a lot to do for tourist. You can visit the Buddhist temples, ride elephants, scuba dive and pet lions. What can you do in SK? Drink soju?
 
Newbian

Newbian

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Mai72 said:
Where is Thailand, Vietnam and Laos? Thailand especially has a booming tourist sector. I'm also surprised to see South Korea on the list. It's freezing cold and xenophobia is a big problem there. Thailand is a very tropical country with a lot to do for tourist. You can visit the Buddhist temples, ride elephants, scuba dive and pet lions. What can you do in SK? Drink soju?
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The boy traps prevented it from being on the list.
 
GTaudiophile

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Germans:

-Work hard, play hard.
-Understand work-life balance.
-Have more time and money for vacation than just about anyone on the planet.
-Produce more of their energy from renewable sources than just about anyone.
-Know what it means to educate and train people who can think, innovate, and manufacture something cool.
-Free public universities.
-The ratio of kids going to vocation vs. university track is about 70:30.
-No cultural stigmas against 'blue collar' manufacturing work.
-Support the arts like nobody else in the world.
-Understand bookkeeping and transparent finance like nobody else.
-High taxes = you get a lot back: healthcare, public transport, public facilities.
-A culturally-accepted 'generational treaty' or Generationenvertrag. It's known and understood that the young will take care of the elderly, the healthy will take care of the sick, the rich will take care of the poor, etc.
-Low government debts.
-Government surplus.
-Middle class is king.
-No fewer than 5 major political parties.
-Higher voter turnout for more political parties.
-Coalition government forced to compromise.
-Got their asses kicked twice = ingrained amount of global humility. Not much nationalism in Germany these days.
-Acknowledges and learns from their past mistakes.
-They hate the NSA because of their past.
-From philosophy to religion to science: the German language is the front door to western knowledge.
-The land of poets and thinkers.
-The land that has elevated mechanical engineering and manufacturing to an art form.
-A country with nine geographic neighbors = a culture with a multicultural mindset and tolerance; also highly multilingual.
-Culture has a love for nature and the outdoors.
-Culture has a love for all things organic and natural.
-Socially liberal towards alcohol, nudity and sex.
-The most beautiful women on the planet.
-Increasingly diverse population.
-The coolest, hippest, smartest city on the planet: Berlin.
-Second-to-none spa culture.
-Amazing Christmas markets.
-Bavaria is paradise.
-Make the best cars in the world.
-Make the best beer in the world.
-The best Fussball players in the world.
-Oktoberfest.
 
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theeedude

theeedude

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Yep, Germans have figured out how to make a large federal country work well. Maybe we should learn some lessons from them.
 
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Genx87

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I guess all that fanfare about Obama fixing our world image after Bush went up in smoke. I suppose using drones to kill people and spying on the rest of the world can hurt our image.
 
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fskimospy

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GTaudiophile said:
Social market economy within a federalist system.
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And one that's way way more socialist than ours is. They make the Democrats look like free marketeers.

German taxes as a percentage of GDP are around 40% as compared to about 27% for the US. Talk about a bunch of commies.
 
GTaudiophile

GTaudiophile

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eskimospy said:
And one that's way way more socialist than ours is. They make the Democrats look like free marketeers.

German taxes as a percentage of GDP are around 40% as compared to about 27% for the US. Talk about a bunch of commies.
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If you could promise me Germany, then go ahead and tax me 40%. But in the USA, taxes go up, and the money goes........somewhere.....to someone.....
 
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