September 7, 2007
FRENCH “WORLD’S MOST UNFRIENDLY PEOPLE”
A recent poll carried out by an expatriate website reported that the French are regarded as the world’s least-friendly people. 46 per cent of the more than 6,000 people surveyed by WAYN.com put France at the top of the list of “unfriendly” nations. Several newspapers from the UK took great pleasure in reporting this result. As if that wasn’t enough bad news, the French were also voted the “most boring” and “least generous” people on earth by the website’s members. Taking second place in all three of the aforementioned categories were the Germans.
On the positive side, the WAYN.com poll placed the Italians at the top of the list for the “most cultured” nation and the country with the best cuisine. If Italians are the most cultured, the Americans are the least tasteful. The people of the USA were named “least stylish.” They were also cited for having the worst food on the planet.
Reflecting the Brits’ mixed feelings towards their favorite destination, a majority of them chose Spain as the place in which they would most like to live in, in spite of the fact that the Spaniards were close behind the French in the “unfriendly” and “least generous” seats. Britons did not make it in the top ten in any category, good or bad.
Many Frenchmen were stunned by the results. “I had no idea that the French would emerge as such an unfriendly country,” says French-born Jerome Touze, founder of WAYN.com. “I think our romantic moodiness is misunderstood and I will be sure to pass on the message to my family and friends back in France to be a bit more cheerful in future!”
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