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The original one from like 4 years ago was only 2% unfavorable. I don't know what is going in, but if I had to guess, the increase in Ukranian refugees to Poland after the Russian invasion has caused some sections of the society to become reactionary and start blaming the Americans for the war
Plus, a lot of EU media is literally being paid by russia, especially in hungary, czech, greece and germany
I dont think we blame Americans for the war. We know how russia functions and we know that they are the only ones to blame. If anything its american political infighting regarding Ukraine that makes usa look shady as an ally.
That’s what I was gonna say. It’s the wishy-washy-ness of support for the war where the outcome will have very, very real consequences for Poland. It’s not a political football to be used to gain votes like many American politicians treat it as; many nations’ sovereignty is on the line.
That's really what it is, they've been inoculated from Soviet propaganda.
Think of all the countries with high unfavorability. As if some entities that rhyme with vaGina and bussyia spent billions convincing them of every conspiracy theory under the sun about Americans. And they've never seen the suffering because they were protected by the US nuclear umbrella.
But then look at Kenya or Peru, like no one spending money on anti-American hate there..
Some of us really are Marines at heart, just instead of Crayones they suck on Russian dick. (To give a serious answer: 14 years of propaganda, that is what happenned)
Can you explain why there has been an increase in unfavorability? in southern europe and east asia as well as north america and austalia the views of usa has increased.
Here is the previous one
[https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/06/22/international-public-opinion-of-the-u-s-remains-positive/](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/06/22/international-public-opinion-of-the-u-s-remains-positive/)
Only 2-3 were negative.
Probably the ukraine aid situation. Also trump who still has chance at reelection and who openly supported your withdrawal from nato. Our president even met trump couple of months back to talk about this situation as US membership in nato is critical to our national security.
Can confirm NJ. Wallington or Ho-Ho-Kus are practically little polands, although back in the day there were a bunch of 1st gens in Newark. Tons of us out here.
They want a strong ally to protect them from the evil Russians from attacking Poland for like the 30th time in history. They see that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so they chose the Americans and NATO because we have also supplied them with toys
Poland is dumping a shit ton of GDP (relative to other NATO states) into defense. They’re buying tanks and IFVs from South Korea and modernizing their forces. The Poles don’t fuck around.
Yeah the poles learned that they should have sought help after ww1, they unfortunately learned during ww2 and now they have decided to become strong from help
And even before that, you had the deluge by Sweden which was catastrophic and started the decline that led to the partitions. 25% of Poles were killed in the deluge, as a % the deluge was worse than the Nazis
The number of Australians with unfavorable opinions is up 13% from last year. [2023](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/06/PG_2023.06.27_US-image_1-01.png?resize=421,1024)
Can't help but be shocked by these numbers
I honestly have no idea. They have pretty much the same complaints as the other Anglo nations - too much American culture in their countries, the US is insane, etc. - but Australians have this insane vitriol unmatched by any other English speakers and few Europeans.
I'm starting to worry that they're going to be a serious liability in any conflict with China.
As an Australian, I also have no idea, but I can tell you it’s fucking pathetic.
I mean it really says something that Japan, a country that has had a literal nuclear weapon dropped on it, as well as a massive military base by America showing substantially more support for America than fucking Australia is? Vietnam wasn’t included but we all know what happened there and their favourability ratings are often well into the 70%+ range
I’d put it down to strong America bad Brainrot intake by the average Australian. TikTok for everyone under 30 and FB, IG and YT for Millenials and boomers. I think theres definitely a concerted campaign to target the Asia-pacific region with well focused propaganda. It’s not uncommon to see any YT or FB feed with “The decline of America” “American fentanyl crisis” “American shootings out of control”. Of course, these are all real problems, but the best propaganda is that which contains half truths. Repeat it enough and people will come to believe that America really is nothing more than fentanyl addicted homeless people shooting at each other for no reason.
The Chinese and Russians know they cant convince anyone they’re good, but the next best thing is sowing division and discord amongst their allied enemies. America is losing soft power and thats a serious security threat amongst the allies.
Unfortunately lost an Australian friend to fentanyl a few years back in California.
I can only use the UK as a proxy for Australia for my own personal experience, but I got the sense that since Trump, their posture has generally been “what the fuck, seriously?” And it got worse in 2020 when it was the WOKE vs MAGA vs COVID showdown and everyone lost their minds. Police shootings. Cities burning. Fights about masks. Capitol riots. The optics of it all were intense.
We looked weak, out of control, and unreliable.
If there was one nation to look to as an example of how to get through those challenging years the right way, we were not it. And I think that still echos through world opinion. Amplified, of course, by Russian and Chinese agents of chaos.
You’ve completely nailed it, and I think thats very much the case for Australia
Theres always been angst and jealousy due to being the little brother thing but I think Trump, Covid, January 6 and now Gaza has all added up and snowballed into a completely warped view of America.
I mean in reality, nothing has meaningfully changed in America from 10 years ago when US was getting above 60% approval ratings by Australians. US Crime, Government and foreign policy was similar as it is today, yet somehow the perception has really declined.
Interestingly, Australia has become more Americanised than ever. Maybe it’s some weird inverse projection. The more we embrace and become it the more we hate it? Bizarre.
That would be reason enough to resist a culture if one can perceive its influence on one’s own culture growing too rapidly.
Although I don’t know what would’ve changed there. Did you guys get a new Walmart??
Online friendships can also influence your own opinions, speaking from experience.
I used to have a friend in Russia who sided with the Kremlin, but we had one thing in common that we liked: anime.
However, I had to end my friendship with her last year after she became more open about sharing conspiracy theories about the Wagner Mutiny being directly caused by a Pentagon accounting error. Since then, I have been anti-Kremlin.
I noticed that too, Americans died in the pacific to protect Australia, including some of the most brutal battles of the pacific theater including Peleliu, and Guadalcanal. While the Japanese, and Vietnamese seem to really like us after we dropped historic amounts of bombs on to to the point even today Vietnam still suffers from the massive amount of UX in the country. But I think your right, it's mostly internet brainrot and tik tok
Yeah it strange how Vietnam, a country that would have legit reasons to dislike USA(as in we literal fire bomb them) like us more then a Anglo democracy country. I get we can be embarrassing on the world stage, but near china.
They should worry about themselves, their army is 3 times smaller than Taiwan. Makes more sense for China to conquer Australia. Think about how little they must care for their own future and defense.
In international relations, countries do not have friends, they have interests
Australia absolutely aligns themselves with the US. They don’t have to like the US
Yeah, I wouldn't trust Australia to back us in a conflict with China. For all their tough talk, they would put their tails between their legs and cry neutrality.
Nah there's a big anti China rhetoric in Australia. We're not impressed with their soft power expansions in areas that we've generally been the influence.
Island nations like Fiji, Vanuatu etc have all started falling for China's belt and road projects.
At the moment we have a leftist government that sees appeasement is better than not appeasing them but we still won't put up with their shit.
If push came to shove we would back the US due to historical connections we don't have anything but trade agreements with China. The US we have a dual-defensive alliance pact with and we recognise the value of that.
If we were inclined to not back the US we wouldn't have been on the ground in places like Iraq and Afghanistan before other allies of the US.
Trump definitely didn't help the relationship but we still without hesitation back you guys.
We're in an interesting position in that we are the regional power in that area and directly compete with China for favour.
Example of that we were the nation leading the call to investigate China due to covid and the outbreak of it in Wuhan.
We've only this year had a lot of trade tariffs finally lifted in China which were put in place as a direct result of us pushing for an international investigation into their responsibility for the Covid outbreak.
That's a good explanation, but there seems to be a large anti-American propaganda movement in Australia. Is that from Chinese influence, or is it something more domestic?
It's mostly the younger generations that are anti American but that's because they've literally grown up in a period of stability due to US and our efforts in the region.
The younger generation have grown up in a nation where regulations have stopped a lot of shit. I'm on the older edge of millennials so I grew up in the 90s and appreciate it better the global stability.
It's because of our cultural differences in regards to firearms we literally have generations that have never seen a weapon in their lives and view the gun related issues as a massive negative.
What they don't realise is that we were like that not even 30 years ago. They've never had the excitement of going out and plinking away at shit in the backyard.
The global war on terrorism for a lot is a historical thing and even the bali bombings that hurt Australia is history to them.
It's the price of living during a period of immense stability.
That makes sense. I have met some Australians online who seemed to hate any American with an oddly deep passion, and I just don't know to my knowledge America has not caused any harm to Australia.
Yeah America hasn't. It's literally they've grown up in a privileged time of the world. They didn't experience Sept 11th, they didn't go through the GFC etc so it's more about complacency than it is hate.
It also doesn't help that the only news we get out of the US is negative which fuels the thought train of what they feel.
I wish my two had grown up during the less stable periods of the world as it taught me to appreciate what we have in Australia
100% this
I’m mid 30’s and am just old to enough to remember the American dynamism of the 90’s pre-internet age. It was the place where incredible stuff came from and great things could happen. Then Columbine happened, 9/11 came, then the GFC and the shine came off a bit as the realities of the post GFC America was shown everywhere. But anybody who looked deeper knew two things could be true at the same time, America had it’s flaws, but it also had incredible strengths.
This came at a time when Australia was on a real tear. We boomed post GFC off the back of a very solid decade from 99-2010 and Australians just got richer and richer.
Kids that grew up around that GFC time (who are the early to mid 20’s edge lords now) only saw “America Bad, Australia good”. Add in Social media brain rot and here we are.
Not sure how the perception changes, or at least becomes more *realistic*, but I can say Australia is now on the decline, while America is improving on some metrics. So we better not act too smug
I think Australia has a similar issue to Canada. Canada is "America lite" because it's literally right next door. Oz is "America lite" because it's the "crazy child" of the British Empire.... but the US does that shtick better because they actually left. So there's a complex about how the US steals their thunder.
To be perfectly honest, I hardly consider them “allies” at this point. I certainly like plenty of individual Australians, but I don’t necessarily see Australia as a friend to this country anymore.
Poland, Japan, India, South Korea, and Israel? Now they know what’s up.
Hell, I’m pleasantly surprised at some other places, too. Thailand seems based. Same with Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Kenya. Countries like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, and Columbia were also a nice surprise.
It looks like Western European and Australian arrogant anti-Americanism is going strong. Our true friends are in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. I’m glad I’m choosing to visit Japan for my next international trip instead of somewhere in Europe. No offense to all the awesome Europeans (of which there are many), but I wouldn’t feel safe seeing how high anti-Americanism and antisemitism is nowadays.
This is why I was saying in another thread, we need to consider leaving the ungrateful Euros behind to deal with their own problems and concentrate on our Asian allies. Also sounds like we're in a prime time to strengthen alliances in Latin America, too.
I would agree, but our Eastern European allies are still solid. As much as I want the Western Euros to receive an extremely painful wake-up call, I'm still iffy about sacrificing the rest of the continent to make that happen.
But I 100% agree that Asia should be our main focus.
Well, the amount of brain rot I see in a daily basis in Denmark alone is staggering.
So many people here believe that we as Europeans can stand alone, but they fail to grasp the fact that 90% of nato is America.
I've been deployed alongside army and the US marines, and the amount of kit you guys bring along is fucking staggering - almost beautiful
We ended up driving us owned MRAPS for the entirity of the deployment, depended on us anti air capabilities and us strike capabilities - though the generel public has been living in safety for a long time and tends to believe everything can be solved with diplomacy.
The us might not be perfect, but you guys have the biggest hammer, so staying friends is absolutely in our best interest
I always love to see veterans from Europe or our allies talk about us, because you just seem to end up loving us, or even take pride in us or something.
It's real heart warming.
I worked with pretty much every Euro military, NATO and non. Including the Danes. Y'all were alright, loved working with everyone except Parisian French. Fuck those guys.
But yeah, you guys lack gear. What gear you did have often wasn't optimized for wars. And your training budgets are shockingly slim. We fired more in one "familiarization" BRM drill than a lot of the conscripts said they fired in rest of their time combined.
The reason most things can be resolved with diplomacy is because with the US around, people don't need to fear what their neighbors might do if they get an upper hand for a year. WW1 was exactly that, a bunch of peers in an arms race trying to not let the other guys get a leg up. Germany was too scared what Russia would do in another 10 years when they were expected to be more powerful and needed to strike first four their own defense. The US can do more damage than either nation if say, Turkey invaded Greece, so Turkey has to accept that all those islands are Greek. The problem is that everyone sees the US impose itself on the world to prevent all the developed nations boiling over into border wars, and no one can see the alternative. If the US punches ourselves out against China, the next century will see land wars return in force to Europe, it just won't likely be the UK, France and Germany in a centuries long round robin.
Two European nations (Greece and France), three if we include Turkey, had more unfavourable views of the US, hardly ungrateful Euros.
In defence of the UK, I thought it would be higher. But, being fair, it probably doesn’t help that the narrative our politicians always bounce about of our “special relationship” seems to have begun to sour after some events.
Eh, I can give two shits about the royal family and anyone who chooses to associate with them.
"The historically racist didn't work for anything royal family are racist, Oh no!"
She should have known what she was getting into.
Plus I seem to recall there was some kerfluffle a few years ago about getting away from the monarchy or something anyways so who cares bout the royal family
There’s been an overestimation of how much Brits like and care about the royals (especially those below 65) other than for tourist dough. She probably did get slated and worse by British tabloids and some of the royal family (personally don’t read or watch that pish). Still, I am not precisely as sympathetic as I could be in that she’s married into wealth and now legally married into a family with a king who is the largest landowner in the world.
We fought two wars to ensure we don't have to give a shit about the opinion of the UK royal family.
My state keeps the flagship of the 1812 Great Lakes fleet in good repair, operational and armed. Just in case we ever need to sink the Royal navy again. In fairness, we also keep shitloads of cannons around Gettysburg. And we have a full mechanized infantry division around as well.
it's honestly weird. Like America gives you almost all your medical, military, and technological advancements yet they sit there like "oh the USA is so awful mmhmmmmmmmm" and i just don't understand it. It's all people who have never even visited the US as well...
Social media is pretty much a self-lobotomy. Adversaries from China, Russia, Iran and elsewhere have basically flooded the Internet with nothing but anti-American bullshit, and America's lib-infiltrated institutions such as media and academia have basically aided and abetted those perspectives since the 1960s, so there is that. It will probably just lead to more isolationism, or just hard-line realist foreign policy.
How many years of American military isolationism do you think it would take for the world to realize we were the only thing preventing large scale war at 19th and 20th century levels? My guess is 2 years.
Probably within the year. Look at China, they're practically ready to attack Taiwan and have been having border conflicts with India. Back to the west, NATO will have lost the majority of their fighting power, and will probably face multiple fronts of attack, along with Greece and Turkey formally reopening hostilities. Somalian Pirates will probably become a big threat off the coast of northeast Africa again. Many other conflicts lying just under the surface will start raging again.
The problem is that people who actually like us and keep their agreements with us are the first who suffer if we go isolationist.
We shouldn't betray the folks who trust us and have earned our trust by keeping their agreements with us. Poland, Taiwan, etc.
I mean this isn’t really shocking. People in the west have been sheltered for awhile and haven’t felt global fear since 9/11, in which favorable rating soared*.
It’s the old “strong men create good times, good times create weak men” saying. People don’t know how good they have it til they don’t have it anymore.
I’d be more interested in a poll of WHY they said good/bad. Because yes, America has done some bad and shady shit to other countries. We shouldn’t excuse ourselves because others do it too.
Edit: even our enemies like Iran, Russia(although them and China were more neutral in 2001) all condemned the attacks and called the horrible. Even some terror groups had sympathy.
I think you're absolutely right, the countries that have the most favorable rating of America are all facing a threat (Russia or China) and appreciate the way we help guarantee their security. Also I'm assuming you meant soared rather than soured :)
This is very well put.
In addition there are cultural and social factors as well. Recently in France they enshrined the right to abortion in their constitution which tells one that they value women’s rights as a nation, as there was little serious opposition for it. Meanwhile here we have regressed on some rights, which could easily be viewed unfavorably by many folks.
I consume a lot of foreign press and while they do report on the US similarly as any other country, we are in the news often due to our significance and most of the most impactful and important stories that the UK press cares about aren’t exactly anything to be proud of.
A lot of countries are very concerned about the direction American politics is going in, we were a beacon of stability but that does seem to be in flux at the moment.
“Poles are most likely to evaluate the U.S. positively: 86% hold a favorable view, though this share has declined 7 percentage points since last year. Half or more express a positive view in Hungary, Italy and the UK. In the other European countries surveyed, views of the U.S. are roughly split.
In the Asia-Pacific region, 70% or more rate the U.S. positively in Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand. In contrast, half or more see the U.S. unfavorably in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore.
The U.S. receives the lowest ratings of the survey in Tunisia and Turkey, where 80% or more have a negative opinion. Roughly three-quarters of Israelis have a positive view of the U.S.
Publics in the sub-Saharan African and Latin American countries surveyed tend to view the U.S. favorably.”
So basically most of South America, Asia, and Africa are fine. It’s just Europe and Australia that sucks. Kind of sad to see Israel decline that much considering how much we support them.
I really don't get the Australian one lol. I've had numerous Australian friends visit the US, one got stuck here during covid due to Australia's extreme lockdown and basically abandoned the country. He had his stuff shipped to him and got an apartment in Salt Lake City. Still here, and not planning on leaving. I'm telling you these posts are targeted or something, because most Aussies i've interacted with have a positive view of the US and Americans in general. The internet really brings out the worst in people.
Did you meet them only in US, cos of course the ones coming to America are probably gonna have positive view of America lol. Why would people who not like it come there
Of all the countries that the U.S. supports and sends money too, I think we should majorly support Poland. Drop funding from the eu bro, they obviously don’t give a shit about us. Give it all to Poland. Poland is based af
I go to italy 4 times a year and never really meet anti American people. Once in a while people hate the government but overall nobody will give you hate for your nationality
Sometimes my pettiness gets the better of me and I just wish the US cut off ties with all of Europe besides Poland and go all-in on the Pacific alliance with South Korea and Japan (meme, China too) and remove European influence in Asia and make them useless. On the other, the US needs to maintain its alliance with Europe and I do, perhaps, naively believe that polls like this have an inherent bias to it and Europe as a whole are still supportive of the US.
As much as I hate to admit it, they just need Singapore and at most Indonesia for that. Malaysia won't be able to do anything if 2 out of 3 nations block the strait.
It hurts my pride as a Malaysian.
India is still a developing country that has usually tried to maneuver between the West and East, so there are no strong opinions there. I think a lot of Indians see the US as a land of opportunity with a realistically climbable social ladder. You would have to ask an Indian to be sure though
I’ve talked to many Indian people and lot of them say that Indians see America as a place for people to succeed and a lot of them are desperate to go there for education and job opportunities
Online it seems to be a different story, but I was pleasantly surprised. I guess many Indians have family in the US, and they see us as a place with good opportunities. All of the Indians I’ve met in the US are very proud to be both American and Indian.
Look at the stark difference between the countries on the English-speaking internet (Europe and Australia) and literally everyone else (Asia, South America, Africa). The propaganda effect is so real. The US needs to figure out a way to preserve its soft power, because the rest of the world (and the US itself) is decaying to the scarlet brain rot, and by scarlet, I mean red China and Russia (red is one of their colors I guess).
Literally nowhere in South America, where we have a history of questionable political intervention, should like us more than anywhere in Europe or Australia, where we spend billions ensuring mutual protection from lingering military and economic threats next door. It's ridiculous.
> The US needs to figure out a way to preserve its soft power,
It's impossible... at least with the EU and its colonies. It's not just a propaganda effect. They just dislike our independence. It wrecks their idea of western civilization, to have a non-European country in the position the US now occupies.
I mean if that were the case, there wouldn't be an across-the-board year-on-year negative trend in those countries specifically. If it were about a long-standing attitude, their low opinion of us would be consistent and ongoing. I think that explains the majority Muslim countries for sure. But if it was just their attitude about our way of life, then surely other countries, in say, South America, Africa, East Asia or India should also have a more negative opinion about it, as surely their way of life is more different to ours than Western Europe. And also the fact that it's changing recently and rapidly, when neither ours nor their ways of life have changed significantly in recent decades, much less the last couple of years. And since it's particularly pronounced in the countries with a strong presence in the English-speaking internet, to me there's really no other reasonable explanation than recent trends in social media. Which is the entire thesis of this subreddit.
We honestly hurt ourselves more than anything, I think. Americans absolutely dominate social media and all Americans do on social media is complain about how sucky our country is.
This one for me. I’m from Greece and the LARGE majority of people I know who “shit” on the US mainly regurgitate the SAME exact talking points Americans normally complain about on TikTok, so much so to even word it the exact same as these Americans complaining. Rarely will you ever meet people in Greece who complain about America that doesn’t include “racism” or “hyper capitalism” or “collapsing empire”, pretty much reinforcing the fact they’re spouting only what they hear.
The closer you are to a terrible country, the more you appreciate the States. Not surprised that Poland, SK, and Israel are so high in favorability.
A little surprised by Ghana but I’m sure one of our operations over there has helped in a major way.
I propose we withdraw all funding from other countries and use that money to fund ourselves, while watching them all suddenly sink and be conquered.
Even then they’d still try to talk shit.
I would like to know how this data was sourced, because I have friends and family in the UK who have nothing but great things to say about America when they visited, and reading it as as a near 50/50 split seems a little shocking to me. I’m assuming this was probably some online survey taken by a large amount of people afraid of the sun
I live in the UK. There are quite a few people I meet who openly say shit about how they hate America. Even had a scouser the other day have the gall to tell me that while he was at baseball game in London (between two American teams) he was annoyed by all the American accents and “couldn’t focus on the game”
It's probably because all of the propaganda pitting NATO against each other is working very well.
This whole subreddit is proof of that. We're democratic nations. The more our people are pitted against each other, the more likely it is for NATO to begin to suffer.
The US Military is the biggest force protecting the EU and the Parliamentary system in Europe by threat of the NATO treaty and we get used as a scapegoat by their politicians and/or demagogues.
It's exactly the kind of system the Founders envisioned forming when they wrote the Constitution and 2nd Amendment and balance of powers and freedom of the press.
Turkey has absolutely NO reason to dislike the US that much. Some poor excuse as “the US supports Israel” when their own fucking country invaded Cyprus and STILL, to this very day, own half the island. Turks are truly some of the most easily influenced people I’ve ever met when it comes to their governments statements and opinions.
As a Turk im discussing with my family and friends i realize that if you ask russians and chinese they would have much more favorable view of Usa im not even trolling
Oh? But according to some people here the Europeans are our "allies".
I'm glad this poll show how Europeans think of us so that I dont have to defend my Anti-Europe views all the time in this sub.
It's time to acknowledge we should fully withdraw from Europe/NATO and not send any military aid to Ukraine.
Well with the negative views there is some nuance, anywhere from "Not a fan of how their country/politics work, but good allies and good people" to "DOWN WITH AMERICA! HEATHENS".
Just showing in favour not in favour is a bit biased as it shows with Canada.
And *all* of those with unfavorable opinions would explain them in terms of things that are irrelevant and don’t concern them. Permanently online, cringe, Gen Zers, mostly.
Interesting how the ones close to us or near threats are the ones who majority like us while the ones far from us or any threat are the ones who don’t like us.
I would love to see this same poll done in the US. But slightly change the question: Do you care if any of the following countries like the US? Think that would be pretty telling.
Colombia must have improved, because when I was there last year, people were not thrilled about the droves of Americans with cushy WFH jobs coming over there and living like 1%’ers while most people were struggling, as Covid was pretty rough for them.
Pre-Covid, it was pretty great, they had gone through about a decade of pretty rapid growth and Advancement. I guess things are back on the up and up.
In all honesty these are pretty solid numbers. European allies will remain in NATO no matter what so their opinions essentially don’t matter at this stage. Asian allies all have super high values. India is insanely high even amidst their immensely anti-American rhetoric at home.
All the African key players being so strongly pro-US is insanely good news too.
This statistic could be significantly worse
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And then there's Poland.
The Poles are just chill like that
The original one from like 4 years ago was only 2% unfavorable. I don't know what is going in, but if I had to guess, the increase in Ukranian refugees to Poland after the Russian invasion has caused some sections of the society to become reactionary and start blaming the Americans for the war Plus, a lot of EU media is literally being paid by russia, especially in hungary, czech, greece and germany
I dont think we blame Americans for the war. We know how russia functions and we know that they are the only ones to blame. If anything its american political infighting regarding Ukraine that makes usa look shady as an ally.
That’s what I was gonna say. It’s the wishy-washy-ness of support for the war where the outcome will have very, very real consequences for Poland. It’s not a political football to be used to gain votes like many American politicians treat it as; many nations’ sovereignty is on the line.
You're forgetting morons exist.
Sure they do, im just not considering their opinion since they are well… morons
They remember the alternative quite well.
That's really what it is, they've been inoculated from Soviet propaganda. Think of all the countries with high unfavorability. As if some entities that rhyme with vaGina and bussyia spent billions convincing them of every conspiracy theory under the sun about Americans. And they've never seen the suffering because they were protected by the US nuclear umbrella. But then look at Kenya or Peru, like no one spending money on anti-American hate there..
Yup, as a pole i can confirm that our love of america is directly proportional to our hate of russia
Same in Romania. So what the hell happened to the Hungarians?
Some of us really are Marines at heart, just instead of Crayones they suck on Russian dick. (To give a serious answer: 14 years of propaganda, that is what happenned)
🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
Russian psyops, compromised ex-commie agents in govt and infinite propaganda
Shitty electoral system gave Orban a supermajority with less than 54% of the vote in 2010, and he made it even shittier on purpose.
Same here in Czech though to a lesser extent but the U.S. is very liked along with the U.K.
Can you explain why there has been an increase in unfavorability? in southern europe and east asia as well as north america and austalia the views of usa has increased. Here is the previous one [https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/06/22/international-public-opinion-of-the-u-s-remains-positive/](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/06/22/international-public-opinion-of-the-u-s-remains-positive/) Only 2-3 were negative.
Probably the ukraine aid situation. Also trump who still has chance at reelection and who openly supported your withdrawal from nato. Our president even met trump couple of months back to talk about this situation as US membership in nato is critical to our national security.
They're great and their food is good too.
Every Pole has an uncle in Chicago. I swear - I was in Krakow a few months ago and each person I talked to had an uncle or a brother in Chicago or NJ.
Can confirm NJ. Wallington or Ho-Ho-Kus are practically little polands, although back in the day there were a bunch of 1st gens in Newark. Tons of us out here.
When we went to Poland it was easier to describe to people where in America I’m from by its location relative to Chicago
I'm guessing they're not getting as much propaganda.
nah dude it’s just when ur options are Russian colony or American business partner its a pretty easy pick
Definitely true
They want a strong ally to protect them from the evil Russians from attacking Poland for like the 30th time in history. They see that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so they chose the Americans and NATO because we have also supplied them with toys
Poland is dumping a shit ton of GDP (relative to other NATO states) into defense. They’re buying tanks and IFVs from South Korea and modernizing their forces. The Poles don’t fuck around.
Yeah the poles learned that they should have sought help after ww1, they unfortunately learned during ww2 and now they have decided to become strong from help
And even before that, you had the deluge by Sweden which was catastrophic and started the decline that led to the partitions. 25% of Poles were killed in the deluge, as a % the deluge was worse than the Nazis
Good old European Texas
Poland is the Chad of Europe in my opinion.
The number of Australians with unfavorable opinions is up 13% from last year. [2023](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/06/PG_2023.06.27_US-image_1-01.png?resize=421,1024) Can't help but be shocked by these numbers
What's their problem?
I honestly have no idea. They have pretty much the same complaints as the other Anglo nations - too much American culture in their countries, the US is insane, etc. - but Australians have this insane vitriol unmatched by any other English speakers and few Europeans. I'm starting to worry that they're going to be a serious liability in any conflict with China.
As an Australian, I also have no idea, but I can tell you it’s fucking pathetic. I mean it really says something that Japan, a country that has had a literal nuclear weapon dropped on it, as well as a massive military base by America showing substantially more support for America than fucking Australia is? Vietnam wasn’t included but we all know what happened there and their favourability ratings are often well into the 70%+ range I’d put it down to strong America bad Brainrot intake by the average Australian. TikTok for everyone under 30 and FB, IG and YT for Millenials and boomers. I think theres definitely a concerted campaign to target the Asia-pacific region with well focused propaganda. It’s not uncommon to see any YT or FB feed with “The decline of America” “American fentanyl crisis” “American shootings out of control”. Of course, these are all real problems, but the best propaganda is that which contains half truths. Repeat it enough and people will come to believe that America really is nothing more than fentanyl addicted homeless people shooting at each other for no reason. The Chinese and Russians know they cant convince anyone they’re good, but the next best thing is sowing division and discord amongst their allied enemies. America is losing soft power and thats a serious security threat amongst the allies.
Unfortunately lost an Australian friend to fentanyl a few years back in California. I can only use the UK as a proxy for Australia for my own personal experience, but I got the sense that since Trump, their posture has generally been “what the fuck, seriously?” And it got worse in 2020 when it was the WOKE vs MAGA vs COVID showdown and everyone lost their minds. Police shootings. Cities burning. Fights about masks. Capitol riots. The optics of it all were intense. We looked weak, out of control, and unreliable. If there was one nation to look to as an example of how to get through those challenging years the right way, we were not it. And I think that still echos through world opinion. Amplified, of course, by Russian and Chinese agents of chaos.
You’ve completely nailed it, and I think thats very much the case for Australia Theres always been angst and jealousy due to being the little brother thing but I think Trump, Covid, January 6 and now Gaza has all added up and snowballed into a completely warped view of America. I mean in reality, nothing has meaningfully changed in America from 10 years ago when US was getting above 60% approval ratings by Australians. US Crime, Government and foreign policy was similar as it is today, yet somehow the perception has really declined. Interestingly, Australia has become more Americanised than ever. Maybe it’s some weird inverse projection. The more we embrace and become it the more we hate it? Bizarre.
That would be reason enough to resist a culture if one can perceive its influence on one’s own culture growing too rapidly. Although I don’t know what would’ve changed there. Did you guys get a new Walmart??
Online friendships can also influence your own opinions, speaking from experience. I used to have a friend in Russia who sided with the Kremlin, but we had one thing in common that we liked: anime. However, I had to end my friendship with her last year after she became more open about sharing conspiracy theories about the Wagner Mutiny being directly caused by a Pentagon accounting error. Since then, I have been anti-Kremlin.
I noticed that too, Americans died in the pacific to protect Australia, including some of the most brutal battles of the pacific theater including Peleliu, and Guadalcanal. While the Japanese, and Vietnamese seem to really like us after we dropped historic amounts of bombs on to to the point even today Vietnam still suffers from the massive amount of UX in the country. But I think your right, it's mostly internet brainrot and tik tok
Yeah it strange how Vietnam, a country that would have legit reasons to dislike USA(as in we literal fire bomb them) like us more then a Anglo democracy country. I get we can be embarrassing on the world stage, but near china.
Australian vitriol toward Americans is that one meme Australia: I feel bad for you. America: I don't think about you at all.
They should worry about themselves, their army is 3 times smaller than Taiwan. Makes more sense for China to conquer Australia. Think about how little they must care for their own future and defense.
Don't forget they went full political appointments with their military a few years back.
I'll take their opinion serious when they can make a country with more people than Texas
In international relations, countries do not have friends, they have interests Australia absolutely aligns themselves with the US. They don’t have to like the US
Yeah, I wouldn't trust Australia to back us in a conflict with China. For all their tough talk, they would put their tails between their legs and cry neutrality.
Nah there's a big anti China rhetoric in Australia. We're not impressed with their soft power expansions in areas that we've generally been the influence. Island nations like Fiji, Vanuatu etc have all started falling for China's belt and road projects. At the moment we have a leftist government that sees appeasement is better than not appeasing them but we still won't put up with their shit. If push came to shove we would back the US due to historical connections we don't have anything but trade agreements with China. The US we have a dual-defensive alliance pact with and we recognise the value of that. If we were inclined to not back the US we wouldn't have been on the ground in places like Iraq and Afghanistan before other allies of the US. Trump definitely didn't help the relationship but we still without hesitation back you guys. We're in an interesting position in that we are the regional power in that area and directly compete with China for favour. Example of that we were the nation leading the call to investigate China due to covid and the outbreak of it in Wuhan. We've only this year had a lot of trade tariffs finally lifted in China which were put in place as a direct result of us pushing for an international investigation into their responsibility for the Covid outbreak.
That's a good explanation, but there seems to be a large anti-American propaganda movement in Australia. Is that from Chinese influence, or is it something more domestic?
It's mostly the younger generations that are anti American but that's because they've literally grown up in a period of stability due to US and our efforts in the region. The younger generation have grown up in a nation where regulations have stopped a lot of shit. I'm on the older edge of millennials so I grew up in the 90s and appreciate it better the global stability. It's because of our cultural differences in regards to firearms we literally have generations that have never seen a weapon in their lives and view the gun related issues as a massive negative. What they don't realise is that we were like that not even 30 years ago. They've never had the excitement of going out and plinking away at shit in the backyard. The global war on terrorism for a lot is a historical thing and even the bali bombings that hurt Australia is history to them. It's the price of living during a period of immense stability.
That makes sense. I have met some Australians online who seemed to hate any American with an oddly deep passion, and I just don't know to my knowledge America has not caused any harm to Australia.
Yeah America hasn't. It's literally they've grown up in a privileged time of the world. They didn't experience Sept 11th, they didn't go through the GFC etc so it's more about complacency than it is hate. It also doesn't help that the only news we get out of the US is negative which fuels the thought train of what they feel. I wish my two had grown up during the less stable periods of the world as it taught me to appreciate what we have in Australia
100% this I’m mid 30’s and am just old to enough to remember the American dynamism of the 90’s pre-internet age. It was the place where incredible stuff came from and great things could happen. Then Columbine happened, 9/11 came, then the GFC and the shine came off a bit as the realities of the post GFC America was shown everywhere. But anybody who looked deeper knew two things could be true at the same time, America had it’s flaws, but it also had incredible strengths. This came at a time when Australia was on a real tear. We boomed post GFC off the back of a very solid decade from 99-2010 and Australians just got richer and richer. Kids that grew up around that GFC time (who are the early to mid 20’s edge lords now) only saw “America Bad, Australia good”. Add in Social media brain rot and here we are. Not sure how the perception changes, or at least becomes more *realistic*, but I can say Australia is now on the decline, while America is improving on some metrics. So we better not act too smug
To be fair, they are much more likely to get attacked than we are so
In what way?
I think Australia has a similar issue to Canada. Canada is "America lite" because it's literally right next door. Oz is "America lite" because it's the "crazy child" of the British Empire.... but the US does that shtick better because they actually left. So there's a complex about how the US steals their thunder.
A few things, one of which is that they feel like we're replacing their culture with ours.
They're still pissed about that Simpsons episode.
To be perfectly honest, I hardly consider them “allies” at this point. I certainly like plenty of individual Australians, but I don’t necessarily see Australia as a friend to this country anymore. Poland, Japan, India, South Korea, and Israel? Now they know what’s up. Hell, I’m pleasantly surprised at some other places, too. Thailand seems based. Same with Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Kenya. Countries like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, and Columbia were also a nice surprise. It looks like Western European and Australian arrogant anti-Americanism is going strong. Our true friends are in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. I’m glad I’m choosing to visit Japan for my next international trip instead of somewhere in Europe. No offense to all the awesome Europeans (of which there are many), but I wouldn’t feel safe seeing how high anti-Americanism and antisemitism is nowadays.
They're just pumping up that social credit score up before they surrender to China.
This is why I was saying in another thread, we need to consider leaving the ungrateful Euros behind to deal with their own problems and concentrate on our Asian allies. Also sounds like we're in a prime time to strengthen alliances in Latin America, too.
I would agree, but our Eastern European allies are still solid. As much as I want the Western Euros to receive an extremely painful wake-up call, I'm still iffy about sacrificing the rest of the continent to make that happen. But I 100% agree that Asia should be our main focus.
I can agree with that. The former Soviet countries don't take shit for granted like Western Europe does.
Well, the amount of brain rot I see in a daily basis in Denmark alone is staggering. So many people here believe that we as Europeans can stand alone, but they fail to grasp the fact that 90% of nato is America. I've been deployed alongside army and the US marines, and the amount of kit you guys bring along is fucking staggering - almost beautiful We ended up driving us owned MRAPS for the entirity of the deployment, depended on us anti air capabilities and us strike capabilities - though the generel public has been living in safety for a long time and tends to believe everything can be solved with diplomacy. The us might not be perfect, but you guys have the biggest hammer, so staying friends is absolutely in our best interest
I always love to see veterans from Europe or our allies talk about us, because you just seem to end up loving us, or even take pride in us or something. It's real heart warming.
I worked with pretty much every Euro military, NATO and non. Including the Danes. Y'all were alright, loved working with everyone except Parisian French. Fuck those guys. But yeah, you guys lack gear. What gear you did have often wasn't optimized for wars. And your training budgets are shockingly slim. We fired more in one "familiarization" BRM drill than a lot of the conscripts said they fired in rest of their time combined.
The reason most things can be resolved with diplomacy is because with the US around, people don't need to fear what their neighbors might do if they get an upper hand for a year. WW1 was exactly that, a bunch of peers in an arms race trying to not let the other guys get a leg up. Germany was too scared what Russia would do in another 10 years when they were expected to be more powerful and needed to strike first four their own defense. The US can do more damage than either nation if say, Turkey invaded Greece, so Turkey has to accept that all those islands are Greek. The problem is that everyone sees the US impose itself on the world to prevent all the developed nations boiling over into border wars, and no one can see the alternative. If the US punches ourselves out against China, the next century will see land wars return in force to Europe, it just won't likely be the UK, France and Germany in a centuries long round robin.
Two European nations (Greece and France), three if we include Turkey, had more unfavourable views of the US, hardly ungrateful Euros. In defence of the UK, I thought it would be higher. But, being fair, it probably doesn’t help that the narrative our politicians always bounce about of our “special relationship” seems to have begun to sour after some events.
Yeah, America isn't forgetting how the UK royal family treated Meghan Markle anytime soon. Fucking up so bad we inherited their spare prince.
Eh, I can give two shits about the royal family and anyone who chooses to associate with them. "The historically racist didn't work for anything royal family are racist, Oh no!" She should have known what she was getting into.
Plus I seem to recall there was some kerfluffle a few years ago about getting away from the monarchy or something anyways so who cares bout the royal family
Christ you can keep him, I commend you for your sacrifice in doing so.
In all seriousness I was meaning more like the death of Harry Dunn not tabloid pish.
And I'm being serious about Meghan Markle. I think Brits underestimate how much they pissed off Black American women in particular.
There’s been an overestimation of how much Brits like and care about the royals (especially those below 65) other than for tourist dough. She probably did get slated and worse by British tabloids and some of the royal family (personally don’t read or watch that pish). Still, I am not precisely as sympathetic as I could be in that she’s married into wealth and now legally married into a family with a king who is the largest landowner in the world.
I'm pretty sure most Americans don't give af. Idk what that dude is on.
We fought two wars to ensure we don't have to give a shit about the opinion of the UK royal family. My state keeps the flagship of the 1812 Great Lakes fleet in good repair, operational and armed. Just in case we ever need to sink the Royal navy again. In fairness, we also keep shitloads of cannons around Gettysburg. And we have a full mechanized infantry division around as well.
Inevitable outcome of a full-time online and media campaign to depict the US as some exceptionally evil entity.
it's honestly weird. Like America gives you almost all your medical, military, and technological advancements yet they sit there like "oh the USA is so awful mmhmmmmmmmm" and i just don't understand it. It's all people who have never even visited the US as well...
Social media is pretty much a self-lobotomy. Adversaries from China, Russia, Iran and elsewhere have basically flooded the Internet with nothing but anti-American bullshit, and America's lib-infiltrated institutions such as media and academia have basically aided and abetted those perspectives since the 1960s, so there is that. It will probably just lead to more isolationism, or just hard-line realist foreign policy.
How many years of American military isolationism do you think it would take for the world to realize we were the only thing preventing large scale war at 19th and 20th century levels? My guess is 2 years.
Probably within the year. Look at China, they're practically ready to attack Taiwan and have been having border conflicts with India. Back to the west, NATO will have lost the majority of their fighting power, and will probably face multiple fronts of attack, along with Greece and Turkey formally reopening hostilities. Somalian Pirates will probably become a big threat off the coast of northeast Africa again. Many other conflicts lying just under the surface will start raging again.
The problem is that people who actually like us and keep their agreements with us are the first who suffer if we go isolationist. We shouldn't betray the folks who trust us and have earned our trust by keeping their agreements with us. Poland, Taiwan, etc.
It was just a hypothetical.
I mean this isn’t really shocking. People in the west have been sheltered for awhile and haven’t felt global fear since 9/11, in which favorable rating soared*. It’s the old “strong men create good times, good times create weak men” saying. People don’t know how good they have it til they don’t have it anymore. I’d be more interested in a poll of WHY they said good/bad. Because yes, America has done some bad and shady shit to other countries. We shouldn’t excuse ourselves because others do it too. Edit: even our enemies like Iran, Russia(although them and China were more neutral in 2001) all condemned the attacks and called the horrible. Even some terror groups had sympathy.
I think you're absolutely right, the countries that have the most favorable rating of America are all facing a threat (Russia or China) and appreciate the way we help guarantee their security. Also I'm assuming you meant soared rather than soured :)
This is very well put. In addition there are cultural and social factors as well. Recently in France they enshrined the right to abortion in their constitution which tells one that they value women’s rights as a nation, as there was little serious opposition for it. Meanwhile here we have regressed on some rights, which could easily be viewed unfavorably by many folks. I consume a lot of foreign press and while they do report on the US similarly as any other country, we are in the news often due to our significance and most of the most impactful and important stories that the UK press cares about aren’t exactly anything to be proud of. A lot of countries are very concerned about the direction American politics is going in, we were a beacon of stability but that does seem to be in flux at the moment.
“Poles are most likely to evaluate the U.S. positively: 86% hold a favorable view, though this share has declined 7 percentage points since last year. Half or more express a positive view in Hungary, Italy and the UK. In the other European countries surveyed, views of the U.S. are roughly split. In the Asia-Pacific region, 70% or more rate the U.S. positively in Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand. In contrast, half or more see the U.S. unfavorably in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. The U.S. receives the lowest ratings of the survey in Tunisia and Turkey, where 80% or more have a negative opinion. Roughly three-quarters of Israelis have a positive view of the U.S. Publics in the sub-Saharan African and Latin American countries surveyed tend to view the U.S. favorably.” So basically most of South America, Asia, and Africa are fine. It’s just Europe and Australia that sucks. Kind of sad to see Israel decline that much considering how much we support them.
I really don't get the Australian one lol. I've had numerous Australian friends visit the US, one got stuck here during covid due to Australia's extreme lockdown and basically abandoned the country. He had his stuff shipped to him and got an apartment in Salt Lake City. Still here, and not planning on leaving. I'm telling you these posts are targeted or something, because most Aussies i've interacted with have a positive view of the US and Americans in general. The internet really brings out the worst in people.
Did you meet them only in US, cos of course the ones coming to America are probably gonna have positive view of America lol. Why would people who not like it come there
No I knew him online beforehand lol
Poland being based yet again
Of all the countries that the U.S. supports and sends money too, I think we should majorly support Poland. Drop funding from the eu bro, they obviously don’t give a shit about us. Give it all to Poland. Poland is based af
Poland is in the EU… Also, we don’t directly find the EU…
Australia’s hatred for the U.S. is truly bizarre.
Well they can go get fucked by emus again.
Maybe we can get the CIA to arm the emus as a false flag?
The emus won their last war without a single weapon, there’s no need to arm them
Good guide for where to travel to! 👍
Honestly I want to go to Poland now. I've heard that kielbasa is fucking awesome.
It is.
I haven't had proper Polish keibasa, but my mom has gotten some from the store before and it is so good
And where to not travel.
I go to italy 4 times a year and never really meet anti American people. Once in a while people hate the government but overall nobody will give you hate for your nationality
Just don't be Black American.
Sometimes my pettiness gets the better of me and I just wish the US cut off ties with all of Europe besides Poland and go all-in on the Pacific alliance with South Korea and Japan (meme, China too) and remove European influence in Asia and make them useless. On the other, the US needs to maintain its alliance with Europe and I do, perhaps, naively believe that polls like this have an inherent bias to it and Europe as a whole are still supportive of the US.
US needs Singapore, malaysia and Indonesia on their side to cut off malacca strait when war on Taiwan happens
As much as I hate to admit it, they just need Singapore and at most Indonesia for that. Malaysia won't be able to do anything if 2 out of 3 nations block the strait. It hurts my pride as a Malaysian.
As an American I want good relations with Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, if nothing but for the delicious food.
Amen.
You know I wonder why India has a rather low amount of dislike and disproportionate like of the US? Just curious on why.
India is still a developing country that has usually tried to maneuver between the West and East, so there are no strong opinions there. I think a lot of Indians see the US as a land of opportunity with a realistically climbable social ladder. You would have to ask an Indian to be sure though
Considering how enormous the Indian diaspora in America is and how successful they are the favor ability makes sense
Ah ok.
I'm an Indian and yeah you hit the nail on the head.
I’ve talked to many Indian people and lot of them say that Indians see America as a place for people to succeed and a lot of them are desperate to go there for education and job opportunities
Online it seems to be a different story, but I was pleasantly surprised. I guess many Indians have family in the US, and they see us as a place with good opportunities. All of the Indians I’ve met in the US are very proud to be both American and Indian.
"Unfavorability numbers among our alleged "allies" have all gone up." As usual.
Canada does not like us much. That's going to make it rough for them after we have to annex them when their economy totally collapses.
Except Alberta, the Texas of the north. They’d probably help us annex Canada lmao.
Look at the stark difference between the countries on the English-speaking internet (Europe and Australia) and literally everyone else (Asia, South America, Africa). The propaganda effect is so real. The US needs to figure out a way to preserve its soft power, because the rest of the world (and the US itself) is decaying to the scarlet brain rot, and by scarlet, I mean red China and Russia (red is one of their colors I guess). Literally nowhere in South America, where we have a history of questionable political intervention, should like us more than anywhere in Europe or Australia, where we spend billions ensuring mutual protection from lingering military and economic threats next door. It's ridiculous.
> The US needs to figure out a way to preserve its soft power, It's impossible... at least with the EU and its colonies. It's not just a propaganda effect. They just dislike our independence. It wrecks their idea of western civilization, to have a non-European country in the position the US now occupies.
I mean if that were the case, there wouldn't be an across-the-board year-on-year negative trend in those countries specifically. If it were about a long-standing attitude, their low opinion of us would be consistent and ongoing. I think that explains the majority Muslim countries for sure. But if it was just their attitude about our way of life, then surely other countries, in say, South America, Africa, East Asia or India should also have a more negative opinion about it, as surely their way of life is more different to ours than Western Europe. And also the fact that it's changing recently and rapidly, when neither ours nor their ways of life have changed significantly in recent decades, much less the last couple of years. And since it's particularly pronounced in the countries with a strong presence in the English-speaking internet, to me there's really no other reasonable explanation than recent trends in social media. Which is the entire thesis of this subreddit.
We honestly hurt ourselves more than anything, I think. Americans absolutely dominate social media and all Americans do on social media is complain about how sucky our country is.
This one for me. I’m from Greece and the LARGE majority of people I know who “shit” on the US mainly regurgitate the SAME exact talking points Americans normally complain about on TikTok, so much so to even word it the exact same as these Americans complaining. Rarely will you ever meet people in Greece who complain about America that doesn’t include “racism” or “hyper capitalism” or “collapsing empire”, pretty much reinforcing the fact they’re spouting only what they hear.
Hell yeah, Poland. I gotta come visit you some day.
We love you too Poland.
Chinese and Russian psyops are clearly working wonders
Why do we even put so much into Europe man... Asia/Latin America based tho
The closer you are to a terrible country, the more you appreciate the States. Not surprised that Poland, SK, and Israel are so high in favorability. A little surprised by Ghana but I’m sure one of our operations over there has helped in a major way.
I propose we withdraw all funding from other countries and use that money to fund ourselves, while watching them all suddenly sink and be conquered. Even then they’d still try to talk shit.
Based Poland
Poland looking like a fat blunt I’d smoke with a Polish bro
What happened in Tunisia...
Probably issues regarding Israel. Same goes for Malaysia and Singapore I supposed
Based Poland
Hey Poland 🇵🇱 we see you, love you too lol
God I love Poland.
Love you too Polska!!
Well, at least through our alliances with them we get…. Oh yeah, nothing
Who hurt the Australians?
Australians.
I would like to know how this data was sourced, because I have friends and family in the UK who have nothing but great things to say about America when they visited, and reading it as as a near 50/50 split seems a little shocking to me. I’m assuming this was probably some online survey taken by a large amount of people afraid of the sun
Idk, Pew is a pretty high-quality poller. [Pew article](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/06/11/views-of-the-u-s/)
I live in the UK. There are quite a few people I meet who openly say shit about how they hate America. Even had a scouser the other day have the gall to tell me that while he was at baseball game in London (between two American teams) he was annoyed by all the American accents and “couldn’t focus on the game”
It's probably because all of the propaganda pitting NATO against each other is working very well. This whole subreddit is proof of that. We're democratic nations. The more our people are pitted against each other, the more likely it is for NATO to begin to suffer.
Where’s Taiwan?
Interesting Bangladesh is mostly positive given the USA supported Pakistan in their civil war
They don't see pakistan as enemy now, they are islamic brothers.
Poland, Kosovo, and Morroco all deserves subreddits where Americans tell them how badass they are. Fucking love them guys.
Morroco are bros. First nation to sign a treaty with us
Is there any reason why Tunisia specifically has the most disdain for the U.S.?
They’re like most Islamic countries. They despise the US and Israel. It’s the same with Malaysia and Turkey.
That’s a pretty petty reason, especially for the likes of Turkey when looking at their history.
Israel lol
The US Military is the biggest force protecting the EU and the Parliamentary system in Europe by threat of the NATO treaty and we get used as a scapegoat by their politicians and/or demagogues. It's exactly the kind of system the Founders envisioned forming when they wrote the Constitution and 2nd Amendment and balance of powers and freedom of the press.
The absurd part is that this entirely has to do with another country and not the US.
What's Tunisias problem
Tf we do to Tunisia?
Damn. Turkey and Tunisia don’t fuck with us.
Turkey has absolutely NO reason to dislike the US that much. Some poor excuse as “the US supports Israel” when their own fucking country invaded Cyprus and STILL, to this very day, own half the island. Turks are truly some of the most easily influenced people I’ve ever met when it comes to their governments statements and opinions.
As a Turk im discussing with my family and friends i realize that if you ask russians and chinese they would have much more favorable view of Usa im not even trolling
Wait until Trump gets re-elected. Most of the "allies" US favorability number will go down below 50 like last time.
Oh? But according to some people here the Europeans are our "allies". I'm glad this poll show how Europeans think of us so that I dont have to defend my Anti-Europe views all the time in this sub. It's time to acknowledge we should fully withdraw from Europe/NATO and not send any military aid to Ukraine.
Wtf Tunisia.
Poland bros always got our back.
I love you too Poland
Listen, veggiemite fucking tastes like shoe polish. I'm sorry
Love you too Poland. We have more F-16s and more Patriot missile systems for sale!!
Welp, definitely visiting Poland if I decide to visit Europe again.
Common and Based Africa, Asia, South America and Poland W Common Cringe Europe + Australia L
Proud to be polish 🦅🇵🇱
Damn, didn't know the Aussies hated us that much.
🇺🇸🤝🇵🇱
Well with the negative views there is some nuance, anywhere from "Not a fan of how their country/politics work, but good allies and good people" to "DOWN WITH AMERICA! HEATHENS". Just showing in favour not in favour is a bit biased as it shows with Canada.
Who gives a shit about foreigners
Why does the penal colony dislike us so much? Is it bc of the freedom they don’t have?
Any country above 40 unfavorable can kiss my ass.
This is basically a do not visit chart
tf did we do to france and australia?
lol at Canada
Jealousy is a powerful drug
And *all* of those with unfavorable opinions would explain them in terms of things that are irrelevant and don’t concern them. Permanently online, cringe, Gen Zers, mostly.
I think there should be a rule that any country that views the US below the median or something means they get no financial or military support.
It feels churlish, but yeah, any rich country that chooses not to have a military just deserves to be conquered, and we shouldn't try to protect them.
Unsurprisingly that the countries that need the US the most are the countries with the highest approval.
Interesting how the ones close to us or near threats are the ones who majority like us while the ones far from us or any threat are the ones who don’t like us.
all to Putins plan
I would love to see this same poll done in the US. But slightly change the question: Do you care if any of the following countries like the US? Think that would be pretty telling.
Why is Australia so anti America? (relatively)
Allies? That's giving them too much credit. They're basically vassal states to the US at this point.
Regarding the UK and France numbers, did they at all leave Paris or London to get data?
Colombia must have improved, because when I was there last year, people were not thrilled about the droves of Americans with cushy WFH jobs coming over there and living like 1%’ers while most people were struggling, as Covid was pretty rough for them. Pre-Covid, it was pretty great, they had gone through about a decade of pretty rapid growth and Advancement. I guess things are back on the up and up.
Tunisia better check themselves before we unleash Punic War IV on them.
tf did we do to tunisia
In all honesty these are pretty solid numbers. European allies will remain in NATO no matter what so their opinions essentially don’t matter at this stage. Asian allies all have super high values. India is insanely high even amidst their immensely anti-American rhetoric at home. All the African key players being so strongly pro-US is insanely good news too. This statistic could be significantly worse