America’s Place in the World

“As part of the What The World Thinks of America programme, 11,000 people in the UK, France, Russia, Indonesia, South Korea, Jordan, Australia, Canada, Israel, Brazil and the US responded to a poll asking their views and opinions on America.


The respondents were asked about their general attitudes towards America and US President George Bush.


The poll also posed a range of other questions on America’s foreign policy, military power, cultural influences and economic might.


Click on the links to view a comprehensive series of graphs illustrating the findings of the poll.” BBC News Drill down through the graphs and indulge yourself. Readers here probably won’t find many surprises. The respondents in the US have an overblown sense of our value and desirability to the rest of the world. Disaffection with the US in the political, military, economic and cultural spheres cuts across the world, including Eurocentric, Muslim and non-Muslim developing countries. The depth of the world’s contempt for George Bush and concern over the destabilizing, dangerous influence of American military might are dramatic.