The world still thinks Americans are "coolest"

[garbon]

http://news.yahoo.com/world-still-thinks-americans-coolest-poll-120048216.html

They may be witnessing their global superpower influence decline in the face of challenges from other emerging players on the world stage, but Americans have been voted the world's "coolest nationality" in an international poll.

Social networking site Badoo.com (www.badoo.com) asked 30,000 people across 15 countries to name the coolest nationality and also found that the Spanish were considered the coolest Europeans, Brazilians the coolest Latin Americans and Belgians the globe's least cool nationality.

"We hear a lot in the media about anti-Americanism," says Lloyd Price, Badoo's Director of Marketing. "But we sometimes forget how many people across the world consider Americans seriously cool."

Of course, not all Americans are cool far from it. Some like Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp and Quentin Tarantino are way cooler than others.

Americans, however, are the dudes who invented cool and who still embody it in many fields from music to movies and TV to technology.

"America," says Price, "boasts the world's coolest leader, Obama; the coolest rappers, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg; and the coolest man in technology, Steve Jobs of Apple, the man who even made geeks cool."

Brazilians are ranked the second coolest nationality in the Badoo poll and the coolest Latin Americans, ahead of Mexicans and Argentinians. The Spanish, in third place, are the coolest Europeans.

The French are voted cooler than the British, and Canadians cooler than the Belgians. This may come as a relief for Canadians, who are sometimes viewed as chronically uncool.

Or, as Michael Ignatieff, the Canadian politician, once put it: "Paris, Texas stands as a metaphor for broken dreams; Paris, Saskatchewan just sounds ridiculous."

THE 10 COOLEST NATIONALITIES

1. Americans
2. Brazilians
3. Spanish
4. Italians
5. French
6. British
7. Dutch
8. Mexicans
9. Argentinians
10. Russians

FIVE LEAST COOLEST NATIONALITIES

1. Belgians
2. Poles
3. Turks
4. Canadians
5. Germans

[Valmy]

Flems and Walloons are equally lame.

[11B4V]

http://news.yahoo.com/world-still-thinks-americans-coolest-poll-120048216.html

Americans, however, are the dudes who invented cool and who still embody it in many fields from music to movies and TV to technology.

Dont forget it.

[Valmy]

What is it that makes Spain so cool though?

[11B4V]

Poles and Canadians got non-coolest category.

[garbon]

What is it that makes Spain so cool though?

Partying late into the morning is pretty cool.

[11B4V]

What is it that makes Spain so cool though?

Partying late into the morning is pretty cool.

Topless beaches.....?

[Malthus]

Russians are cool? I suppose high levels of criminality and alcoholism, and a longing for Stalin to return, are pretty "cool". 

I'm perfectly happy living in an "uncool" nation. 

[Valmy]

I'm perfectly happy living in an "uncool" nation. 

That just says it all right there.

[The Larch]

What is it that makes Spain so cool though?

As if you needed to ask. 

[Malthus]

I'm perfectly happy living in an "uncool" nation. 

That just says it all right there.

Enjoy your 50 cent dollars and President Bachmann. 

[Josquius]

'The world' is mad.

[The Brain]

Belief in Socialism and Intelligent Design makes people cool?

[Jacob]

Part of the reason Canadians are seen as being so uncool is that whenever Canadians start getting cool, they most likely move to the US and the world assumes they were American from the get go.

Which rather proves the point that Canadians are not cool, I suppose....

[HVC]

Russians are cool? I suppose high levels of criminality and alcoholism, and a longing for Stalin to return, are pretty "cool". 

I'm perfectly happy living in an "uncool" nation. 

it's the chicks. Russian chicks are crazy.