Social networking site Badoo.com asked 30,000 people across 15 countries to name the coolest nationality and also found that the Spanish were considered the coolest Europeans, Brazilians the coolest Latin Americans and Belgians the globe's least cool nationality.
"We hear a lot in the media about anti-Americanism," says Lloyd Price, Badoo's Director of Marketing. "But we sometimes forget how many people across the world consider Americans seriously cool."
Of course, not all Americans are cool far from it. Some like Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp and Quentin Tarantino are way cooler than others.
Americans, however, are the dudes who invented cool and who still embody it in many fields from music to movies and TV to technology.
"America," says Price, "boasts the world's coolest leader, Obama; the coolest rappers, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg; and the coolest man in technology, Steve Jobs of Apple, the man who even made geeks cool."
Brazilians are ranked the second coolest nationality in the Badoo poll and the coolest Latin Americans, ahead of Mexicans and Argentinians. The Spanish, in third place, are the coolest Europeans.
The French are voted cooler than the British, and Canadians cooler than the Belgians. This may come as a relief for Canadians, who are sometimes viewed as chronically uncool.
Or, as Michael Ignatieff, the Canadian politician, once put it: "Paris, Texas stands as a metaphor for broken dreams; Paris, Saskatchewan just sounds ridiculous."
THE 10 COOLEST NATIONALITIES FIVE LEAST COOLEST
1. Americans 1. Belgians
2. Brazilians 2. Poles
3. Spanish 3. Turks
4. Italians 4. Canadians
5. French 5. Germans
6. British
7. Dutch
8. Mexicans
9. Argentinians
10. Russians
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is bombing weddings and funerals cool
No country is better than the others. It is the people who make it good or bad. Let us all work to make our countries a happy, peaceful and desirable place to live.
@Arvind: That's a good one, Arvind. But on a serious note, coolest country is where you have peace of mind, where you can say something without fear of retribution, where you can raise your kids with decent values and integrity, where you have basic and fundamental human rights, and those rights include access to healthcare, education, livable job, and the right to die in dignity. There are many countries in the world who can be classified as "coolest." America, to a great extent has been the "coolest" but is inching on a downward slide unfortunately. Americans are beginning to slide on the same slope which they used to condemn other nations for, in the old days of Soviet era. In terms of human ideals America still has most alluring principles to live by: Freedom and Liberty.
and i used to thought that the coolest country is Antarctica :)
there should be pakistanis, indians and iranians also,,,,,,, according to me
Welcome to Americana dam right we're number at everything Oh God I love this country of America
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Tools for todays propaganda campaigns Again The Century of Self does a great job exploring how these tools are used by the propagandists to ‘manufacture consent’. Some of the tools ‘devises’ used are: - Polls, surveys, questionnaires - Town Hall or Community Meetings (on specific topics to get ‘public feedback’) - Focus groups - Voting records - Products purchased - Social networks like Facebook, etc. - Discussion forums on web sites
And just the other day I was telling someone how worried I was about my cool factor. What a relief.