Guardian Europe poll: which country is best looking, the best drivers and the best at holding their drink?
Who's the best looking? Which country
has the best (and worst) drivers? Who is the friendliest? Where can
people hold their drink?
Well, apparently it's not the British.
We think we're average at everything. According to the latest tranche of
the Guardian/ICM Europe poll, we're certainly not in denial about our
abilities across a whole range of national characteristics.
The poll, carried out online among 5,000
people – 1,000 from each of the five countries involved in the
Guardian's New Europe series – exposes a "mix of classic national
stereotypes and unexpected self-confidence,"according to Julian Glover.
In an imaginary Eurovision contest of national talents, the Spanish and the French think they would be way ahead of everyone else as the best place to eat. Among the Gallic citizens of the land of haute cuisine, 80% give themselves at least eight out of 10 points for their cooking. In Spain, where Ferdinand Adrià's modernist El Bulli restaurant reinvented modern cooking, perhaps to its detriment, 87% do the same.By contrast, a generation reared on Delia Smith and Jamie Oliver in Britain still don't rate themselves highly: only 23% of people in this country believe the UK is renowned for its cooking, against 77% who put it in the middle or below.
Some of the key findings are:
• 61% of Poles think they can hold their drink better than other Europeans – compared with just 15% of Britons and 14% of Spaniards
• 87% of Spaniards think they have Europe's best cuisine. 80% of the French make the same claim, but only 23% of Britons
• 34 % of Germans think they are excellent at driving, compared with only 11% of the French
• 13% of French people think their country is Europe's friendliest, the lowest in any of the countries surveyed. In Spain the figure is 66%
Full data - including questions on the economy and views of Britain - isbelow. What can you do with it?
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