Italians the Best????

[Ptolemy]

This is a portion of a post from over at Skadi......a forum were I cannot post ;D.......by a person with the screen name of 'Gesta Bellica', who conveyed this info:

"I've found that Reader's Digest number with the Global Survey about Europe.
They asked many questions to a sample of 3.841 European citizens in 19 European country, here are the results that i've found in the newspaper:"

"Who are the Europeans that you actually like the most?
Italy 16%
Spain 12%
France 10%
UK 7%
Germany - Greece - Holland 6%
Denmark - Finland - Ireland - Sweden 4%
Switzerland - Austria - Belgium - Norway - Czech republic 3%
Portugal 2%
Poland - Russia - Slovachia - Hungary 1%"

"And which ones u dislike the most?
Germany 22%
Russia -France 12%
(bottom) Sweden - Finland 1%"

"Where you can find the best food in Europe?
Italy 40%
France 23%
Greece 9%"

"Who are the sexiest Europeans?
Italians 34%
Spaniards 15%
Frenchmen 14%
Swedes 9%
Finns 4%
Greeks 3%
Germans - Britishmen - Norwegians - Dutch- Russians 2%
Austrians - Danes - Irish - Poles - Portugueses - Czechs - Slovaks-Hungarians - Swiss 1%
Belgians 0%"

"Who are the most miseducated?
Germans 27%
Frenchmen 14%
Britishmen 12%
(bottom) Norwegian - Swiss 1%"

"In which country would u like to live?
Italy 16%
Spain 15%
France 11%
(bottom) Poland - Slovachia 0%"

"If u weren't born in your country which other nationality u would choose?
Italy 13%
Spain 11%
France 10%
Switzerland - Uk 9%"

for further references go to Skadi forum (but I don't recommend or endorse that scuss-ball forum):

www.skadi.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13924&page=3&pp=20

[buddyrydell]

Hey, I could agree with this .

[recluse]

I thought it was funny that Swedes and Finns were neither very likeable nor very unlikeable.

[One Humanity]

Personally I like more than one country, but if I'd had the choice, I would like to be an Ancient Greek (hopefully not a slave).

There were more things that you could make out with philosophy that had not been described by someone else already and the relationships were easier.

My second choice: being an Irish musician.

[asdf]

Why are Germans disliked so?

[izabet]

Being Canadian and having met many tourists, Germans tend to be very guarded and not at all friendly. They seem to be judging all the time...making snide comments about what people are wearing, eating, etc. I find the Dutch quite a bit warmer than Germans. The Swiss are no better than the Germans though.

Italians, particularly those from the North, seem very outgoing and have a wonderful goofiness about them. I almost got "kidnapped" by one in Cuba (he tried to coax me on to the wrong bus.)

Moroccans are wonderful, (even though they are not European.) Very sweet and tons of fun. (Montreal attracts a lot of Moroccan tourists.)

[pconroy]

It would be interesting to compare this to the number of tourists received by a country, and the number of tourists from a country that visit elsewhere.

Fo instance most people have not visited Slovakia and probably being a small, poor country, many Slovakians have not visited elsewhere - therefore I would expect that they would show up low on the scale, and bingo they do.

Some of the countries most visited in Europe are Spain and Italy, and yes they appear high on the list.

I wonder how things would be if these figures were corrected as above?

[Narcissus]

Seizure said:

Why are Germans disliked so?

Probably a holdover from that whole Lebensraum thing.