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The What The World Thinks of America program was interesting last night. The America the program concentrates on is Corporate and Govermental America. Although the samples asked in each country were rather small to be considered truly representative, and the fact that nowhere near any country was included (which they acknowledged themselves as a weakness) there were still some interesting results. Even though there were countries that generally thought that the US was a good place very few polled people felt that it's recent actions had increased world safety and that it was one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Typically Israeli pollees voted in everything supporting the US and Jordani pollees voted in everything against the US. What I found interesting is that the American's polled tended to agree that they were arrogant. I wonder if, whereas in most countries arrogance is seen as a negative thing whether in America it is seen as either a positive or justified emotion.

Check the BBC webpage for the program.