Those Awful People

Guess who they're talking about:

They are crazy drivers, strangers to customer service, obsessed by sex and food and devoid of a sense of humour.

But it doesn't stop there, boasting a breakdown, nation by nation, of what in the ____ irritates them.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Britons described them as "chauvinists, stubborn, nannied and humourless".

For the Germans, the ____ are "pretentious, offhand and frivolous". The Dutch describe them as "agitated, talkative and shallow." The Spanish see them as "cold, distant, vain and impolite" and the Portuguese as "preaching". In Italy they comes across as "snobs, arrogant, flesh-loving, righteous and self-obsessed" and the Greeks find them "not very with it, egocentric bons vivants".

Interestingly, the Swedes consider them "disobedient, immoral, disorganised, neo-colonialist and dirty".

But the knockout punch to _____ pride came in the way the poll was conducted. People were not asked what they hated in the _____, just what they thought of them.

Now any liberal will quickly jump on board and add their own list of insults to describe Americans. But they'd be wrong. The country in question is none other than liberal-loved France. That's right, American liberals are apparently the only ones who actually like the French.