Peru/Brazil/Mexico/Chile being so high is kinda surprising.
Poland and the Philippines make me wonder if there’s an emigration/brain drain effect going on.
Did they only call people who speak English in South America?
Don’t know about other South American countries, but Colombia (and Colombians) has always been very eager to lick the boot of the US. It’s no surprise it’s one of the only countries in the continent to never have had an openly left wing president or policies until Petro in 2020. Hating the US is something mostly leftists do, and because of the civil war, being a full-on leftist is a bad look for most Colombians.
There’s a Colombian comedian who says that Colombians hate being Colombian, and always aspire to be of some other nationality, but it varies which one by class: High-class Colombians aspire to be and act like they’re European, Middle class Colombians aspire to be American, and very poor Colombians aspire to be Mexican. It feels really true that a lot of people fall into the trap of wanting shit just because it’s from the US, and thinking anything that’s not popular there is therefore bad, like cars or phones.
Source missing from that post, but it’s from the Pew Research Center.
I couldn’t find any justification for their picking those countries (maybe they’re the only countries that let the Pew Research Center establish any presence). And their methodology seems to suffer similar biases these kinds of wide opinion polls typically do (e.g. if you don’t answer the phone or agree to talk to weird strangers you’re not counted), which typically skew towards older conservatives who are sitting at home. Sample sizes also leave a lot to be desired.
Not to say this data is entirely inaccurate, but as with like 90% of these studies, they leave so much statistically uncertain that it’s borderline meaningless.
Luna oi! (Vietnamese youtuber) did a video on a ““statistic”” by the Pew Research Center saying something like “95% of Vietnamese like capitalism!”
obviously misinformation, but she went ahead and translated the original Vietnamese question in English as something like “do you think the Doi Moi reforms were beneficial to Vietnam?”. which like jfc of course they were lol
If it’s the YouTuber I’m thinking of her content is great.
yea especially the documentaries she dubs to english
I remember once reading that Jordan’s approval rate of the USA in 2003 was 1%
Also “Four of five Palestinians disapproved of American leadership, by far the worst perception of the United States globally”
We’re based, westerners aren’t
Based Tunisia.
I asked my friends if I was a cool dude and the majority said I was
Rare outcome, most friend groups would be like “nah dude you’re the worst get lost” and then you’d all laugh and chug another beer or whatever it is neurotypical people do when they hang out
I believe the NTs are hanging out at a pastel pink coloured restaurant with very rounded edges drinking malt milkshakes, smoking Lucky Strike asbestos filter cigarettes and listening to radio plays with your chums.
The bad boy of the group wears a black leather jacket.
Before we rumble with another crew, we practice our song and dance number with snapping fingers. As a NT, I can confirm this is what we do when you guys aren’t looking.
We knock back brewskis and talk about woodworking and Cindy Crawford
Lol they picked Israel, Turkey, and Tunisia as their representative sample of the middle east. First, one of these things is not like the others. Second, I can only imagine how fucking funny it would look if they actually had a representative sample of Arabic/Islamic countries.
I wonder how it would look like if say, Iraq and Syria were on that list
Oh look the sub that tries to greenwash the realities of climate change so they can have brunch isn’t in tune with reality
The sub name itself is pathetic. It’s pathetic enough being a r*dditor. But it’s extra pathetic to join a sub called “Optimists unite!” as if you’re part of some superhero team. I can only assume their sole form of media consumption is Marvel movies and Marvel mobile games.
The sub is the equivalent of a child hiding under a blanket so the monster doesn’t get you.
Except the monsters are real and aren’t deterred by blankets, it just hasn’t reached you yet.
Its worse than the council in mass effect denying the reapers exist despite seeing saren in the flesh attack the citadel. It will hit the global south horribly and they’ll still be in their bubble of “heres how investor’s can still win”
lol using the 35 country median of 31% negative because the average is 35% negative
I can understand using median. Strips away outliers.
This is a percentage scale, there aren’t gonna be outliers.
But what’s the justification for stripping outliers?
hate the us too much
They’re just using the preferable data. They’d use the average if it was better.
It makes sense in cases where a single billionaire throws out the average income in an area, not, say, to disregard a country of people who were invaded by the US or it’s proxy for a chart on “global” opinions.
Outlires? like those whacky pesky australians lol, you can account for outlires without resorting to this lazy, cheap cherry picking. Gotta delude yourself to remain optimistic I guess.
Barely breaking 50% on your self selected popularity data
It is me, Tunisia
Australians are 60/40? That’s hard to believe lmao
We are a US puppet state that constantly tanks our economy to please our American overlords. Some people pick up on that, despite the constant right wing propaganda shoveled down our throats.
Others hate the US because like most Anglo countries, we compare our how hideously incompetent government and cruel, callous society to them. It’s a societal get out of self improvement free card. “We might not be perfect, but at least we aren’t as bad as America!”
Can that be a thing whenever chuds in politics propose anything remotely fashy? In any non-US Anglo country, just call them ‘Americans’.
Some TERF is running their mouth in the UK about how trans people are bad? Just exclaim “what are we a bunch of yanks?” instantly destroyed.
Sadly, it’s usually used in the opposite way, the TERF will go “at least we’re not as bad as the yanks” to justify their own shitty behaviour.
If they hate the americans so much then they shouldn’t have outsourced their foreign policy to them
Aussies are mad that Americans are more racist than they are.
I mean there’s that, but also it’s well known to Australians that their government has sold them out to be a client state of the US. On trade, allowing American military bases on the continent, and more.
Nah there’s a lot of hatred for the US in all the other anglophone nations.
yeah but it’s not rooted in some principled stand, it’s because we’re the funhouse mirror that lets other genocidal settler colonies (or the genocidal mothership herself) off the hook for as long as we’re around. “oh no, the mean americans are making me do a genocide again, oh no”
death to america by all means but let’s not pretend most of the australians marking “disapprove” didn’t do so because the nasty seppos with the school shootings make them feel better about their own settler violence
We generally don’t like Americans as a group, but will bend over backwards to say how our individual yankee mate from uni is actually a decent person if you get used to them. It’s more from a sense of cultural inadequacy than actually having any cogent objections to the American empire (for the average person it’s posited that America may be a big bully but they’re our big bully against the inscrutable *rientals)
A lot of Australians “patriots” oppose the yankification of Australia
the number #1 freest bestest richest most democratic amazing melting pot country is cherry-picked to be “generally favorable” at best… how telling
The only americans who deserve to feel optimism are the ones eagerly anticipating its downfall.
