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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:09:10 GMT
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Brits less popular after Europeans get to know them
Fri Oct 19, 10:45 AM ET
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A poll of Europeans showed people of different
nationalities liked each other more after getting to know each other,
except in the case of the British -- who became less popular.
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A project organized by the Notre Europe think tank brought together
362 citizens from 27 EU states for two days of deliberations in
Brussels last weekend.
They were asked their views on a range of issues before and after the
event, including how much they liked or disliked German, French,
Polish, Italian, British and Spanish people.
The Spaniards were most popular with 78.6 percent approval at the end
of the weekend. The Poles the least with 67 percent.
But all nationalities gained in popularity, bar the British who went
from a 70.3 percent approval rating at the start of the weekend to
68.1 percent by the end.
Professor James Fishkin of Stanford University in the United States,
who developed the polling technique used, urged some caution about the
findings.
"I would be careful about drawing too much inference about people
disliking the British -- it's small and not significant, but you know,
it is what it is, and it did happen that way."
Fishkin said he did not think France's defeat by England in the rugby
World Cup semi-final in between the two polls had had an influence,
even though the number of French participants in the survey was
disproportionately high.
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