[billbears]

The French have been voted the world's most unfriendly nation by a landslide in a new British poll published. They were also voted the most boring and most ungenerous. A decisive 46 percent of the 6,000 people surveyed by travellers' website Where Are You Now (WAYN) said the French were the most unfriendly nation people on the planet, British newspapers reported.

Ummm, what else were they going to say? How long have the French and British been at each other's throats off and on? This poll has nothing to do with the French and more with the historical disdain in Great Britain for France. I imagine if you did the same poll in _____(fill in the blank), the poll would return the nation who is considered a historical adversary. The same could be said if you broke the UK down by regions and that to the poll. I'd bet money opposing regions would show up in the poll as well.

[NZerFromHK]

I agree, this is why I don't completely trust any Anglo opinions of the French. They have their own beefs with the nation across the Channel such that their own judgements are not entirely neutral. The British have their own arrogance and biases that I find pelicular.

But biased as they may, a large part of British assessments areproven to be true.