Canada Tops Popularity Poll.

Canada Tops Popularity Poll.

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Canada and Japan lead the world when it comes to international image - with Israel, Iran and the United States in the basement of world opinion, according to a poll released today.

The survey for the British Broadcasting Corp.'s World Service asked more than 28,000 people to rate 12 countries - Britain, Canada, China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Russia, the United States and Venezuela - as having a positive or negative influence on the world.

Israel was viewed negatively by 56% of respondents and positively by 17%; for Iran, the figures were 54% and 18%. The United States had the third-highest negative ranking, with 51% citing it as a bad influence and 30% as a good one. Next was North Korea, which was viewed negatively by 48% and positively by 19%.

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Go Canada!
The poll questioned 1,000 people each in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the U.S. from Nov. 3 to Jan. 16.



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Whoo hoo! Proud to be Canadian.sorry about the one liner.