LONDON (AFP) - 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.
The Germans have no to reason to celebrate the damning
verdict. They came second on all three counts.
WAYN's French founder, Jerome Touze, told the papers
he had been stunned by the thumping condemnation of
his compatriots and sought to blame it on Gallic
love-struck sulking.
"I had no idea that the French would emerge as such an
unfriendly country," he said.
"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 to
tourists in the future."
Italy was voted the world's most cultured nation with
the best cuisine, while the United States was named
the most unstylish with the worst food.
The British did not feature in the top 10 of any of
the categories.
"The British fit in nowhere -- good or bad. It appears
that we are so completely average that the voters did
not include us in any category," the tabloid Daily
Express commented.
"And to our shame, four percent of respondents -- all
British of course -- said they would only talk to
other Britons when they are abroad."
This unwillingness to talk to the locals appears to go
hand in hand with respondents' perceptions of
foreigners.
While most said Spain was the foreign country where
they would most like to live, they said the Spaniards
were nearly as unfriendly and ungenerous as the
French.
To add insult to injury, British newspaper The Daily
Telegraph put the boot in on Saturday by saying in an
editorial that the French stank.
"The French may like to think that Chanel No 5 is
their scent but we all know that garlic and stale
Gitanes are much more representative."
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