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U.S. still the ‘coolest,’ Canada still lame: poll
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | LONDON — 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 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
Americans
Brazilians
Spanish
Italians
French
British
Dutch
Mexicans
Argentinians
Russians
FIVE LEAST COOLEST
Belgians
Poles
Turks
Canadians
Germans |
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| Intangible |
| I am so uncool |
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| Yohan |
| Yep. A poll from a sampling of 30,000 people from 15 countries is real indicative of how cool Canada is. (we're freaking freezing already!) |
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| CAKE |
| I'm uncool squared being a Polack in Canada LoL |
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| jester |
| Nothing wrong with being under the radar. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by CAKE
I'm uncool squared being a Polack in Canada LoL |
lol. same. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
Yep. A poll from a sampling of 30,000 people from 15 countries is real indicative of how cool Canada is. (we're freaking freezing already!) |
10 of the nationalities in order of sample representation:
Americans
Brazilians
Spanish
Italians
French
British
Dutch
Mexicans
Argentinians
Russians |
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| Sly_Guy |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
10 of the nationalities in order of sample representation:
Americans
Brazilians
Spanish
Italians
French
British
Dutch
Mexicans
Argentinians
Russians |
it's what we call a homer poll. Only pick your own. So clearly, it is a marvel of modern scientific study. |
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| PivotTechno |
Was thinking this looked like one of the "headlines" that pops up on the MSN site when I log out of hotmail.
(edit: National Post, not far off) |
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| Playa24_7 |
| Doing a study about being cool makes it uncool lol |
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| Silky Johnson |
| The only people who care about being "cool" are usually huge losers. |
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