Russia No. 1 in Anti-Americanism?

[peacetraveler22]

Today The Moscow Times published an interesting article entitled Why Russia Is No. 1 in Anti-Americanism. The article summarizes the results of a recent Gallup International poll where approximately 70,000 residents in 65 countries were asked "Who is the greatest threat to world peace?" 24% of worldwide respondents answered "America", but Russia exceeded the global response by more than double, with 54% of Russians choosing America.

Conversely, only 2% of Americans in the Gallup poll think Russia is a threat to global peace. I've mentioned before that Russia doesn't dominate American news, nor do most Americans spend any time thinking about the country at all. A rare exception recently due to the Olympic Games being held in the country. I don't know how powerful state controlled propaganda is in Russia because my knowledge of the language isn't proficient enough to watch these broadcasts. Honestly, a lot of faith and reliance should not be placed on such polls because they are always skewed in some manner. Russian bloggers like fritzmorgen, a master at statistics and anti-Western data, could probably search the Internet and find polls which say the opposite - that Americans don't trust Russia, etc. The article also indicates that another Gallup poll asked Russians the following question: "If there were no barriers to living in any country in the world, which country would you live in?" The number one answer amongst Russians? "America." Thus, the two polls seem diametrically opposed.

If you have time, take a look at the article. It's worth a read. Pleasant weekend to all! Next week we'll continue with more stories from Tennessee.

Comments

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

I like also this:

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Among Poles polled, Russia topped the global threat stakes (18 percent), followed by Iraq (12 percent) and North Korea (10 percent).
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Poles are constantly paranoid about Russia probably to same extent as Russia about USA with all these conspiracy theories.

I regularly read translations of various articles from Poland on Inosmi and it's really funny.

The last one was like: we should be happy that Russia and Europe have disputes over Ukraine and about values.
At least we can be sure that Russia and Germany would not have an agreement over Poland's head and at Poland's expense.
Poland is a member of the EU for many years now but they still remember how Poland was divided between Russia, Austria and Germany in 19th century.

[white-walker.livejournal.com]

These paranoias are just consequense of historicl events.