How 33 countries view each other

[RockyX]

A major BBC World Service poll exploring how people in 33 countries view various countries found not a single country where a majority has a positive view of Iran’s role in the world (with the exception of Iranians themselves).

Views of Iran are lower than the US, although the US continues to get low marks, as does Russia. Views of China, France, and Russia are down sharply compared to a similar BBC World Service poll conducted at the end of 2004.

Japan is the country most widely viewed as having a positive influence, and Europe as a whole gets the most positive ratings of all.

The poll of 39,435 people was conducted for the BBC World Service by the international polling firm GlobeScan together with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland. The 33-nation fieldwork was coordinated by GlobeScan and completed between October 2005 and January 2006.

GlobeScan President Doug Miller remarks, “In the court of public opinion, Iran is judged a mainly negative player in the world. Russia and the US continue to languish at the lower end of the league table. Europe on the other hand continues to be seen as a mainly positive player. It will be interesting to see what impact the next year of drama over the Iranian nuclear programme has on these ratings.”

Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes comments: “It appears that world public opinion does not look kindly on governments engaging in suspicious nuclear activities as is the case of Iran, becoming more authoritarian as in the case of China and Russia, frustrating the needs of their immigrants as in the case of France, or occupying another country without international approval as in the case of the US. On the other hand countries and regions that engage the world primarily through soft forms of power such as the case of Japan and Europe tend to get good marks.”

Read country wise details. BBC Poll: Attitudes towards Countries

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India


India




Though India’s global profile has grown significantly over the last year, it fails to elicit strong feelings. On average 35 percent give it a positive rating, 25 percent give it a negative rating and 41 percent do not answer one way or another. Many more countries (22) give it a net positive rating than a negative rating (6), but nearly all of these are plurality positions (20 positive, 5 negative).

The exceptions are two Muslim countries with positive views: Iran (71% positive) and Afghanistan (59% positive). The only country with widespread negative views is the Philippines (57% negative). Notably, India’s small neighbor Sri Lanka has a mere 4 percent reporting negative views and a robust 49 percent expressing a positive one.

Europeans are divided about India. At the positive end of the spectrum is Great Britain (49% positive, 30% negative) and Russia (47% positive, 10% negative), while at the other end are France and Finland—both being 27 percent positive and 44 percent negative.

The US leans slightly positively (39% positive, 35% negative).

Interestingly, Indians themselves are the most tepid or modest in their self-estimates. While in most countries a large majority give their country a positive rating, among Indians only 47 percent give India a positive rating, but only 10 percent give it a negative rating.

 

[AmberDutt]

Pakistan did not figure in this?

 

[RockyX]

Latest 2010-2011 survey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/160410bbcwspoll.pdf

 

[Rafi]

Pakistan did not figure in this?

LoL Nuff said.

 

[hawx]

and i thought france is a friendly country ? Australia has better positive view for indians though they are the one to beat them regularly ?



Fake poll right out of the a$$ ?

 

[Dalai Lama]

I think this has been posted before.

Though India’s global profile has grown significantly over the last year, it fails to elicit strong feelings. On average 35 percent give it a positive rating, 25 percent give it a negative rating and 41 percent do not answer one way or another.

That's fine, keep a low profile for an another few Years.

Many more countries (22) give it a net positive rating than a negative rating (6), but nearly all of these are plurality positions (20 positive, 5 negative).

The exceptions are two Muslim countries with positive views: Iran (71% positive) and Afghanistan (59% positive). The only country with widespread negative views is the Philippines (57% negative).

That's good.

Notably, India’s small neighbor Sri Lanka has a mere 4 percent reporting negative views and a robust 49 percent expressing a positive one.

"Notably" indeed! Being here makes you think India and Sri Lanka are at war.

 

[Dalai Lama]

BTW, what have we done to the Philippines? Lol.

 

[cloud_9]

Why do we have 25+ and 24- views about Iran.Any reasons countrymen ?

 

[Dalai Lama]

Why do we have 25+ and 24- views about Iran.Any reasons countrymen ?

I don't know... India does get Western news channels. Those who don't follow international politics would fall for it.

 

[Pfpilot]

Its an interesting case study on the involvement of nations in global politics. France, US, and Russia, who are actively involved in international affairs, increasingly elicit negative opinions; while Japan, which has been very passive since WWII,, is seen in a positive light. That's the catch 22 of global politics; if you have the slightest of opinion on an issue, you are automatically disliked by the offended party. That's why the US can never win.

 

[Mech]

Okay , here you go..PAKISTAN

 

[American Pakistani]

Okay , here you go..PAKISTAN

Doesn't seems true. Almost every Turkish, Egyptian, Chinese & Indonesian i've met have very +ive views on Pakistan.

 

[longbrained]

Who cares what colonialists, fascists and slaves think. The most important thing is to remember that BBC is a government funded channel famous for its propaganda both during the war and peace. MI 5/6 has special offices in BBC and they embed targeted propaganda this way. Note that they have given the highest marks to themselves and their friends, who all are colonialists living off the loot and theft they have accumulated over the past 500 years. If that is not bias I do not know what is.

It is good Iran keep what it is doing and remain sovereign rather than becoming a slave and be viewed positively by Nazi, xenophobic Germans, colonialist British and slave trading French in addition to their slaves in their colonies. Subjugation is not an option. So dear Iranian brothers, notice that they have not asked about Iran in Pakistan because they know Iran's popularity will be off charts. They have carefully chosen and manipulated the results to put pressure on Iranian public.

This is the question they have supposedly asked from respondents:

"Please tell me if you think each of the following countries are having a mainly positive or mainly negative influence in the world"

Notice the irony. Iran a country that has not been engaged in offensive warfare, invading another nation for the past 250 year since the battle of Karnal is supposedly is a destabilizing force. Either the respondents are have neurological defects or they were water boarded to give correct answers. Lets compare the facts now.

Lets just examine the case of US closely as a representative example. And we are not going to dig 250 years to compare it with Iran rather we go easy on US and only compare it for the past 65 years. Since the educated readers on PDF already know history of Britain, Germany, France and such it would be pointless for me to put all the "stablizations" these fascist countries have undertaken in the past 250 years.

United States:

List of American wars in past 65 years:
Korean War (1950-53)
Vietnam War (1956-75)
Lebanese Civil War (1958)
Bay of Pigs (1961)
Dominican Republic Civil War (1965-66)
Cambodian Civil War (1970-73)
Evacuation of Saigon (1975)
Mayaguez Rescue (1975)
Lebanon Evacuation (1976)
Lebanese Civil War (1975-90)
Zaire (1978)
Sinai Peninsula Peacekeeping-MFO (1979- )
Desert One (1980)
Gulf of Sidra (1981)
El Salvador Assistance (1981-90)
PLO Evacualtion of Lebanon (1982)
Lebanon Peacekeeping (1982-84)
Nicaraguan Civil War (1983-90)
Grenada Invasion (1983)
Lebanon Hostage Rescue (1984)
Egyptian Air Intercept-Achile Lauro (1985)
Panama Invasion (1989)
Gulf of Sidra (Line of Death) (1986)
Lybian Raid (1986)
Operation Blastfurnace-Bolivia (1986)
Operation Earnest Will (Tanker War)(1987-88)
Panama (1988)
Lybia (1989)
Bolivia, Peru, Colombia Counterdrug (1989)
Philippines (1989)
Operation Just Cause-Panama (1989-90)
Operation Sharp Edge-Liberia Evacuation (1990)
Desert Shield/Desert Storm (1990-91)
Operation Eastern Exit-Somalia (1990)
Operation Sea Angel - Bangladesh (1991)
Operation Quick Lift - Zaire Evacuation (1991)
Operation Southern Watch (1991 - 1994)
Operation Desert Falcon (1991-2003 )
Operation GITMO - Haitian Refugees (1991-94)
Operation Provide Hope (1992)
Sierra Leone Evacuation (1992)
Operation Restore Hope - Somalia (1992-93)
Former Yugoslavia - Operation Provide Promise - Opns Maritime Monitor/Guard - Operation Sharp Guard - Operation Deny Flight (1992 - 1995)
Operation Provide Transition - Angola (1992)
Operation Provide Relief - Somalia, Kenya (1992)
Operation Able Sentry - Macedonia (1993 - 1999)
Haiti - Support Democracy - Restore Deomcracy - Uphold Democracy (1993 - 1995)
Republic of Korea Nuke Plant Security (1994)
Operation Vigilant Warrior -Kuwait (1994)
Military Observation Mission in Ecuador and Peru (MOMEP)
Operation Safe Border (1995-98)
Intervention Force (IFOR) NATO in Bosnia Operation Joint Endeavor (1995-96)
Stabilization Force (SFOR) NATO in Bosnia Operation Joint Guard (1996-98)
Former Yugoslavia- Operation Deliberate Guard - Operation Determined Guard (1996-98)
Operation Desert Focus - Saudi Arabia (1996-97)
Operation Desert Strike -Iraq (1996)
Operation Pacific Haven - Evacuation of 6000 Kurds to Guam (1996)
Evacuation of Central African Republic (1996)
Evacuation of Liberia (1996-97)
Operation Northern Watch (1997-2003)
Operation Assured Lift - Liberia (1997)
Evacuation of Albania (1997)
Intrinsic Action I, II, III - Kuwait (1998)
Determined falcon (1998)
Stabilization Force (SFOR) - Bosnia-Operation Joint Forge (1998- )
Former Yugoslavia - Operation Deliberate Forge - Operation Determined Forge (1998)
Evacuation of Eritria (1998)
Evacuation of Guinea-Bissau (1998)
Kosovo Observers (1998)
Evacuation of The Congo (1998)
Operation Resolute Response (Embassy Bombing assistance, Tanzania and Kenya) (1998)
Tomahawk missile strikes against Sudan and Afghanistan (1998)
Operation Eagle Eye - Serbia (1998)
Hurricane disaster relief in Central America (1998-99)
Operation Desert Fox -Iraq (1998)
Operation Noble Anvil - Serbia and Kosovo (1999)
Operation Shining Hope - Kosovo (1999)
Operation Joint Guardian - Kosovo Force-KFOR (1999- )
Venezuela (2000)
U.S. Support Group East Timor (2000)
Determined Response USS Cole bombing (2000)
Desert Spring - Kuwait - (formerly Intrinsic Action)(2000)
Desert Falcon II (2001)
Desert Focus II (2001)
Noble Eagle (2001-2002)
Enduring Freedom (2001- )
OEF - Philippines (2002- )
Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003- )
Evacuation of Liberia (2003)
OEF - Georgia (2004- )
OEF - Trans-Sahara (2004- )
OEF - Horn of Africa (2004- )
Aztec Silence - African Coast (2005- )
Libya (2011)

The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war
situation, for wanton destruction, for no military objectives, whose
targets and victims are civilian populations, or what we now call
"collateral damage."




China (1945-46)
Korea & China (1950-53)
Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69)
Indonesia (1958)
Cuba (1959-61)
Congo (1964)
Peru (1965)
Laos (1964-70)
Vietnam (1961-1973)
Cambodia (1969-70)
Grenada (1983)
Lebanon (1983-84)
Libya (1986)
El Salvador (1980s)
Nicaragua (1980s)
Iran (1987)
Panama (1989)
Iraq (1991-2000)
Kuwait (1991)
Somalia (1993)
Bosnia (1994-95)
Sudan (1998)
Afghanistan (1998)
Pakistan (1998)
Yugoslavia (1999)
Bulgaria (1999)
Macedonia (1999)

US Political and Military Interventions since 1945
The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since
1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in
political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting
opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests),
undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth.
It has done so in nations such as

China (1945-51)
South Africa (1960s-1980s)

France (1947)
Bolivia (1964-75)

Marshall Islands (1946-58)
Australia (1972-75)

Italy (1947-1975)
Iraq (1972-75)

Greece (1947-49)
Portugal (1974-76)

Philippines (1945-53)
East Timor (1975-99)

Korea (1945-53)
Ecuador (1975)

Albania (1949-53)
Argentina (1976)

Eastern Europe (1948-56)
Pakistan (1977)

Germany (1950s)
Angola (1975-1980s)

Iran (1953)
Jamaica (1976)

Guatemala (1953-1990s)
Honduras (1980s)

Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71)
Nicaragua (1980s)

Middle East (1956-58)
Philippines (1970s-90s)

Indonesia (1957-58)
Seychelles (1979-81)

Haiti (1959)
South Yemen (1979-84)

Western Europe (1950s-1960s)
South Korea (1980)

Guyana (1953-64)
Chad (1981-82)

Iraq (1958-63)
Grenada (1979-83)

Vietnam (1945-53)
Suriname (1982-84)

Cambodia (1955-73)
Libya (1981-89)

Laos (1957-73)
Fiji (1987)

Thailand (1965-73)
Panama (1989)

Ecuador (1960-63)
Afghanistan (1979-92)

Congo (1960-65, 1977-78)
El Salvador (1980-92)

Algeria (1960s)
Haiti (1987-94)

Brazil (1961-64)
Bulgaria (1990-91)

Peru (1965)
Albania (1991-92)

Dominican Republic (1963-65)
Somalia (1993)

Cuba (1959-present)
Iraq (1990s)

Indonesia (1965)
Peru (1990-present)

Ghana (1966)
Mexico (1990-present)

Uruguay (1969-72)
Colombia (1990-present)

Chile (1964-73)
Yugoslavia (1995-99)

Greece (1967-74)


US Perversions of Foreign Elections

The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign
elections, and sometimes engineered sham "demonstration" elections to ward
off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere
of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in
power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such
practices have occurred in nations such as:

Philippines (1950s)
Italy (1948-1970s)
Lebanon (1950s)
Indonesia (1955)
Vietnam (1955)
Guyana (1953-64)
Japan (1958-1970s)
Nepal (1959)
Laos (1960)
Brazil (1962)
Dominican Republic (1962)
Guatemala (1963)
Bolivia (1966)
Chile (1964-70)
Portugal (1974-75)
Australia (1974-75)
Jamaica (1976)
El Salvador (1984)
Panama (1984, 89)
Nicaragua (1984, 90)
Haiti (1987, 88)
Bulgaria (1990-91)
Albania (1991-92)
Russia (1996)
Mongolia (1996)
Bosnia (1998)


Sampling of Deaths >From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt
Dictators (using the most conservative estimates)
Nicaragua
30,000 dead

Brazil
100,000 dead

Korea
4 million dead

Guatemala
200,000 dead

Honduras
20,000 dead

El Salvador
63,000 dead

Argentina
40,000 dead

Bolivia
10,000 dead

Uruguay
10,000 dead

Ecuador
10,000 dead

Peru
10,000 dead

Iraq
1.3 million dead

Iran
30,000 dead

Sudan
8-10,000 dead

Colombia
50,000 dead

Panama
5,000 dead

Japan
140,000 dead

Afghanistan
10,000 dead

Somalia
5000 dead

Philippines
150,000 dead

Haiti
100,000 dead

Dominican Republic
10,000 dead

Libya
500 dead

Macedonia
1000 dead

South Africa
10,000 dead

Pakistan
10,000 dead

Palestine
40,000 dead

Indonesia
1 million dead

East Timor
1/3-1/2 of total population

Greece
10,000 dead

Laos
600,000 dead

Cambodia
1 million dead

Angola
300,000 dead

Grenada
500 dead

Congo
2 million dead

Egypt
10,000 dead

Vietnam
1.5 million dead

Chile
50,000 dead


US Versus World at the United Nations
The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives
at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions
and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not
supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of "no" votes, the US
was the "sole" nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually
vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time.
Here's a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987:

US Is the Sole "No" Vote on Resolutions or Treaties
For aid to underdeveloped nations
For the promotion of developing nation exports
For UN promotion of human rights
For protecting developing nations in trade agreements
For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations
For development as a human right
Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa
For cooperative models in developing nations
For right of nations to economic system of their choice
Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times)
Versus Namibian apartheid
For economic/standard of living rights as human rights
Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times)
Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa
For world charter to protect ecology
For anti-apartheid convention
For anti-apartheid convention in international sports
For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times)
For prevention of arms race in outer space
For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times)
For international law to protect economic rights
For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa
Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction
Versus naval arms race
For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues
For UN response mechanism for natural disasters
For the Right to Food
For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination
For UN study on military development
For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries
For Industrial Development Decade in Africa
For interdependence of economic and political rights
For improved UN response to human rights abuses
For protection of rights of migrant workers
For protection against products harmful to health and the environment
For a Convention on the Rights of the Child
For training journalists in the developing world
For international cooperation on third world debt
For a UN Conference on Trade & Development

US Is 1 of Only 2 "No" Votes on Resolutions or Treaties
For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times)
Versus foreign intervention into other nations
For a UN Conference on Women
Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times)
For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states
For a Middle East nuclear free zone
Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times)
For a new world international economic order
For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa
For the Law of the Sea Treaty
For economic assistance to Palestinians
For UN measures against fascist activities and groups
For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development
For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic
For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US.
**For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism
(including its underlying causes)
For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua

US Is 1 of Only 3 "No" Votes on Resolutions and Treaties
Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times)
Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times)
Versus return of refugees to Israel
For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times)
For an embargo on apartheid South Africa
For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times)
For the independence of colonial nations
For the UN Decade for Women
Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories
For a Middle East Peace Conference
For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times)

In addition, the US has:
Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN
Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives
Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights
initiatives
Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty
Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming
Refused to back the World Health Organization's ban on infant formula abuses
Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention
Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines
Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban
Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on
Political &
Civil Rights (30 years after its creation)
Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights
Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development &
Environmental Protection
Opposed to a Palestinian state and membership of Palestinians to UNICEF (UN branch primarily working for children)
Most number of Vetoes in UN mostly in support of Israel


A partial list of nations in which the U.S. destroyed democracy
in order to create slaves for ultra-wealthy businessmen:
1. China - 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid?
2. Italy - 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style
3. Greece - 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy
to client state
4. The Philippines - 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony
5. Korea - 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
6. Albania - 1949-1953: The proper English spy
7. Eastern Europe - 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
8. Germany - 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
9. Iran - 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings
10. Guatemala - 1953-1954: While the world watched
11. Costa Rica - Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally - Part 1
12. Syria - 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
13. Middle East - 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine
claims another backyard for America
14. Indonesia - 1957-1958: War and pornography
15. Western Europe - 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within
fronts within fronts
16. British Guiana - 1953-1964: The CIA's international
labor mafia
17. Soviet Union - Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes
to book publishing
18. Italy - 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's
orphans and techno-fascism
19. Vietnam - 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
20. Cambodia - 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the
high-wire of neutralism
21. Laos - 1957-1973: L'Armée Clandestine
22. Haiti - 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
23. Guatemala - 1960: One good coup deserves another
24. France/Algeria - 1960s: L'état, c'est la CIA
25. Ecuador - 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks
26. The Congo - 1960-1964: The assassination of
Patrice Lumumba
27. Brazil - 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous
new world of death squads
28. Peru - 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
29. Dominican Republic - 1960-1966: Saving democracy
from communism by getting rid of democracy
30. Cuba - 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution
31. Indonesia - 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno ...
and 500,000 others ...... East Timor - 1975: And
200,000 more
32. Ghana - 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
33. Uruguay - 1964-1970: Torture -- as American
as apple pie
34. Chile - 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on
your child's forehead
35. Greece - 1964-1974: "**** your Parliament and your
Constitution," said the President of the United States
36. Bolivia - 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in
the land of coup d'etat
37. Guatemala - 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized
"final solution"
38. Costa Rica - 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally -- Part 2
39. Iraq - 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused
with missionary work
40. Australia - 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
41. Angola - 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game
42. Zaire - 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage
made in heaven
43. Jamaica - 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum
44. Seychelles - 1979-1981: Yet another area of great
strategic importance
45. Grenada - 1979-1984: Lying -- one of the few
growth industries in Washington
46. Morocco - 1983: A video nasty
47. Suriname - 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
48. Libya - 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
49. Nicaragua - 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
50. Panama - 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
51. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists
what democracy is all about
52. Iraq - 1990-1991: Desert holocaust
53. Afghanistan - 1979-1992: America's Jihad
54. El Salvador - 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
55. Haiti - 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this
turbulent priest?

 

[Mech]

When you look at the file, Pakistanis generally maintain very low opinion towards most other countries except China . Kinda weird.

 

[Avisheik]

Okay , here you go..PAKISTAN

It doesnt help if the world media is against your country. U think $hitty bout others. Btw i thought india will have more positive views in pakistan. The result for the others simply shocked me