Japan has placed dead last in a survey of which nations have the most favourable self-image, with a variety of small and insignificant nations topping the list.
The survey asked participants in 33 countries about how much trust, admiration and pride they felt for their country, with the results being presented as an index:
Via The Economist.
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"With a variety of small and insignificant nations topping the list"... Artefact is Ausie Bashing again
Yea go Australia, by way can everyone stop calling us racist over a quarter of our population is born overseas for crying out loud. Hell both my mum and dad were born on islands in the pacific. And i can say growing up as a black kid in this great country i have experienced no real racism since kindergarten. Hell my group of friends has 4 Australians, a Fijian, a new zealander and a chinese in it.
Though some of the complaints about our current government i can get. Fucking Southern Australian premier banning left4dead 2 mother fucker. Honestly he is just encouraging piracy.
Death to the traitorious adelaidian! That guy sucks ass.
I thought there is censorship in au.
>> Singapore 5th
That's because the people here are all prideful bitches who think they are the best in everything.
Please don't generalise. There are so many anti-government people and so many others who would love to migrate. That said I think Singapore has done really well as a country. It's one of the most developed cities in Asia and even more developed than quite a few Western cities.
Not to mention it's growth from a backwater country to a developed one within 4 decades was nothing short of a miracle.
hey fuck you
ur mum
30% of people in Singapore aren't even Singaporeans.
An lemme guess, you are probably a resident slave of one of the neighboring shitlands, most likely bumi at that.
How the hell is Australia a racist country when its full of multicultural origins. Most people that arrived in this country are overseas.
I'm not surprised the US is where it is, considering the cesspool it's become. I'm waiting for the day the bigger dick foreign policy comes back to bite us in the ass. Am I proud to be an American? No. I'm embarrassed to be an American.
meh, no one gives a shit bout aussies. cept steve irwin, and now he's dead.
no one as in; you and your 4chan buddies. yeah you're right.
Well this was a surprise...
Oh hey, we're number 1!
It's just that Japan is humble and have such high expectations of themsleves. They are very proud people.
France is 8th, no bad.
Nah those idiots havent asked Polish citizens... the are most proud of themselfs
True dat. Guess what, I'm Polish-Australian and I think I just came.. oh man.
where the fuck is greece?!!!
"I thought they were just trying to grow taller..." :3
I'm curious about my country if she was put into the list ...
That was surprising, considering Japan's world peace rankings and how many different people from different countries are fans (including me, im nigerian lol)
what!?
and here we are studying how japan is a very nationalistic country...
They don't survey Indonesia? Seeing how our countrymen have been being less and less proud of ourselves...
we're proud of ourselves.. after it was taken.. those idiot, use batik only when the unesco finally admit it, we need to be proud of our land( not people, i HATE INDONESIA IDIOT's..) we're rich in gold( black one and real one) mining stuff is also there,( to bad the one using it is from other country) the food is great, the culture is great, everything cept the people s great ( though physically some of the girls are nice :p) someone ( or something) need to kick and stuff (and make sure it don't came out) a brain to the government about how to make the country better for ALL of it's people, not only thier own money.
btw yes i'm indonesian, and i'm damn proud of my country( although i'm half chinese, a quarter netherland and a quarter batak) but so fucking hate the government and the people who can only use half of their brain who's running the country
Batak? hey, we're related, anon!
Hehe I just thought It'd be interesting if we saw North Korea at the top, I wonder how people would react....
That was unexpected
How was I not surprised to see Finland near the top? We've been fed that ww2 pride crap since before we were born. It's nice that we can enjoy a high standard of living, but people still don't seem to be any happier. I for one am planning on leaving this dark arsehole of Europe as soon as possible and move somewhere warmer, where I don't have to pay half my income to taxes so drunks can spend it on moore booze.
Well, you do have Simho Hayha (Finland sniper who killed 500 russians with iron sight sniper in freezing temperatures and 250 kills with smg. Russians got so pissed at him that they carpet bombed just to get rid of him. He got shot in the head by a russian soldier, blasting half his face yet managed to kill the guy and still survive. Apparently the war ended with Russia because they found out Simho woke up from the wound and a lil pissed off.
Simo Hayha is the God of Sniping. All snipers should aspire to become Simo Hayha.
Australia is pretty cool, but Canada? Wow. Just... Wow.
I was thinking the same thing. What are they so proud about? The fact that they got free healthcare system so that they can raise healthier cowards? Let's face it, they are the only country that obtained their independence by asking nicely.
Although their Poutine is pretty awesome.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
No, Canadian healthcare is not exactly free since everything is taken from the taxes of working people and I do accept that could cause problems such as people not working and living off of welfare and shit but the health system is one of the best.
"Let's face it, they are the only country that obtained their independence by asking nicely."
Well, whats wrong with that?? Why do we have to declare war and be violent and lose half of our people. Unlike, the U.S. who declare war on everything. So, we are not are a top superpower country, who cares.
And yes poutine is awesome.
Lol at cowards. Canadians were the most feared soldiers in WWI.
We got independence easily because Britain fucking feared us. We didn't even have to raise our voices; they just gave it to us.
Watch out, they'll mess you up with their mooses, and mounties and health system and shit. They'll mess your shit up bad.
It sure is freezing in Hell, isn't it?
Britain fears Canada? Lulz! It'll be a cold day in Hell when *anybody* fears Canada.
lol. Damn australians. Canadians too.
So australia is proud for banning video games, having the most venomous snakes in the world, and shitty laws.
No wonder I dont like that country.
I like the climate and the land but I think their current government is a whole lot of bullshit.
Internet in au is ......
Be glad you don't have to live there...
America is totally a country and not a continent.
It'd be North American then.
I see what you did there.
um haha I don't know if I'm right but it says 'trust and admiration IN your country'
I thought it was about the trust and admiration people have towards other people in their country. :/
Considering how people in Japan are conditioned to be very humble and not outwardly arrogant, these results are not surprising. We foreigners will find that what a Japanese person thinks is almost impossible to determine from their outward demeanor.
Now, the US being so low surprised me, given how many gung-ho "patriots" we have here.
Canada and Australia does NOT surprise me. The people I've met from both countries have always been somewhat arrogant. Nice people for the most part, but arrogant, especially about their nationality. I wonder if Canadians are more proud to say they're NOT Americans than anything else though.
Ciao!
Simple. Because nobody likes Americans.
Yeah, because they're jealous. :/
Some parts of America suck, but for the most part it's pretty fucking sweet over here. Don't hate; appreciate. :D
The same thing can be said for any country.
Doesn't change the fact a majority of the world hates the States.
"small and insignificant nations"
Australia
I don't think that small means what you think it means.
LOL, 10th place ranked...
South Africans have more pride in their country than the Japanese?! D:
What the fuck is wrong with the people over there (Japan)? They could be so much worse as a country but don't realize it! This is depressing stuff...
Wow USA did surprising well. I thought we were mostly depressed with the way things are going.
isnt that easy to understand you ironically silly self-deemed japan-savvy weaboos,
having the whole history of learning from others/tho also well known for that,
being slave to USA in 20-21th century, to britain/western euro in 18-29th century, to china in the time before 18th, and now still no full sovereign your own country/cant say no to usa, finally having the chance to show how yellow is better than white by being the 2nd economy ,only to find that in as soon as tens of years is to be overtaken by china ,,
is surely enough to make you the bottom one on the list,
how strange... I am Australian, but i think i'd be a lot happier living in Japan...
harden the fuck up
the guy who wrote this is a jap isnt?.... small and insignificants nations topping the list.... fucking rasist
The Philippines isn't included in the survey. Could it be that we are more prouder of our image than Japan?
SINGAPORE MAJU!
SINGAPORE MAJU!
SINGAPORE MAJU!
SINGAPORE MAJU!
SINGAPORE MAJU!
at least its a lot better than Malaysia...
Wot. I expected Germany to do way worse.
Makes me think they only picked out the patriots for this survey. =/
loljapan, no shit japan should have no pride for their country, look at the horrible crap they're pumping out these days, moeblobs and oppai shit
Canada on the other hand is fucking awesome, we have fucking hockey, I mean come on....FUCKING HOCKEY.
The Japanese may not be proud of Japan, but they sure are proud of their culture. They're still very elitist in the way they approach other countries when doing business. And the way they conduct their own cultural traditions, from matsuri to sushi making still shows very deep ingrained respect for their Japanese culture.
Oh, and 8 out of 10 singaporeans are dumbfucks. Explains the chart.
Italy is only at 16th place?
I should complain more against my country, it seems I haven't done enough..
however to spoil the Berlusconi's optimism isn't an easy task..
I can't help but think this survey is screwed with.
Besides, the question is much too vague.
Well, reading this gives people and odd taste of what part of other nation's internet culture think of people.
Anyways, I will say I am proud of the country I live in because it is the country I live in. It had better, and it had worse, but I still love it. I am also not afraid to say that I am indeed a citizen of the United States, and no, we are all not total jerks and loud mouthed idiots, sadly, at times they are the louder voices. Oddly though, seems most other countries also have people with the same view of their country the ignorant ones here have. The human race as a whole at times saddens me to no ends, and actually makes me sad to be a human, not a member of a country, but an actual human being.
In my own opinion, the human race as a whole needs to grow up and get along with each other. Seriously, it is a miracle that we still exist.
This is the best post ever. Not only do I agree with much of it, but it is just filled with Truth.
your essay aside, LONG LIVE BRITTANIA AND THE EMPIRE we will rule the pathetic insects which dare to call themselves independant again
I'm not saying that I knew what participants were thinking as they answered that, but I think the Japanese might specifically have disdain for the ugly side of their citizens rather than their culture or government.
Well I guess that SORT OF makes up for Nanking. Okay, not really.
Japan is the most arrogant and elitist country I have ever had the displeasure of living in. They are constantly trying to convince others why they are superior to them. It's like a little dog trying to call attention to itself while the big dogs just chill.
That's something I didn't expect to read!! realy!!
why the fuck is singapore even in the list. i think theres a bug
patriotic makes one stupid...
Besides Finland, the only places I wouldn't mind living in would be Sweden and Norway. I'm surprised they aren't at the top. I wouldn't want to live in Asia where everyone has watched too much NGE and despises individuals.
A bit surprising considering how xenophobic the country is.
Then again, they have amongst the highest suicide rates in the world.
Chile is NOT small and insignificant. I live there xD
I see the UK was left out on this list...
Yay Canada!
Where's Korea on the list?
what?! what about that arrogance saying theres-nobody-like-us-on-the-whole-earth?! or the fact they'd rather die than live in another country?! *confused to death* @_@
japs don't need to be proud, japs just need some...
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_ ∩ _ ∩ oppai！
( ﾟ∀ﾟ)彡 ( ﾟ∀ﾟ)彡 oppai！
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My country is teh interwebz and my religion is loli.
Well, there are,like, 200+ nations on this planet, and there are only 33 on the survey list, heck my country isn't even on this list.
SUDDENLY WEAABOOS EVERYWHERE
MILLIONS OF THEM!
lol wut? suddenly?
lol, such a hypocrite, you you're self are a weeaboo for even being on this site.
Least ... Naaah... come to Poland... here everyone wants to work aboard, no one has faith in country and our politics are dumber than grade schoolers... XD
We are proud despite how unhappy we are with our country. Our literature and history is the stuff of legends. Poland ftw! But yeah, I'd rather swipe british sidewalks than be a teacher back home.
I think this is more a contest of honesty
hmm..quality of life maybe??
They should do a Government Popularity poll next time.
hell malaysia not even in the list
Hello, who would even trust MALAYSIA?
Even I want to get out of Malaysia. The only thing I can be proud of in Malaysia is the food!
MALAYSIA STRONG!
Me :3