America is the most admired country globally

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

America is Now the Most Admired Country Globally – Jumping to the Top of the 2009 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index

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United States Experiences Biggest Improvement in Reputation Among 50 Countries Measured

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Anholt Attributes Change to the Election of Barack Obama

New York, October 5, 2009 – Brand America is now ranked #1 by global citizens, according to the GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media, a division of GfK Custom Research North America. Results from the 2009 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index(NBI), which measures the global image of 50 countries, show the United States taking the top spot as the country with the best overall brand, up from seventh last year.

"What’s really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States in 2009,” explains Simon Anholt, NBI founder and an independent advisor to over a dozen national governments around the world. "Despite recent economic turmoil, the U.S. actually gained significant ground. The results suggest that the new U.S. administration has been well received abroad and the American electorate’s decision to vote in President Obama has given the United States the status of the world’s most admired country.”

Change we can believe in.

Oh, Australia is stuck in place 9 year over year. Sorry, bro.

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It is common knowledge that the globe is full of anti-American communists. Given that, this worries me.

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America is Now the Most Admired Country Globally – Jumping to the Top of the 2009 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index

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United States Experiences Biggest Improvement in Reputation Among 50 Countries Measured

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Anholt Attributes Change to the Election of Barack Obama

New York, October 5, 2009 – Brand America is now ranked #1 by global citizens, according to the GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media, a division of GfK Custom Research North America. Results from the 2009 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index(NBI), which measures the global image of 50 countries, show the United States taking the top spot as the country with the best overall brand, up from seventh last year.

"What’s really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States in 2009,” explains Simon Anholt, NBI founder and an independent advisor to over a dozen national governments around the world. "Despite recent economic turmoil, the U.S. actually gained significant ground. The results suggest that the new U.S. administration has been well received abroad and the American electorate’s decision to vote in President Obama has given the United States the status of the world’s most admired country.”

Change we can believe in.

Oh, Australia is stuck in place 9 year over year. Sorry, bro.

There must be a mistake. We all know that Australia is the best at everything.

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America is Now the Most Admired Country Globally – Jumping to the Top of the 2009 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index

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United States Experiences Biggest Improvement in Reputation Among 50 Countries Measured

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Anholt Attributes Change to the Election of Barack Obama

New York, October 5, 2009 – Brand America is now ranked #1 by global citizens, according to the GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media, a division of GfK Custom Research North America. Results from the 2009 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index(NBI), which measures the global image of 50 countries, show the United States taking the top spot as the country with the best overall brand, up from seventh last year.

"What's really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States in 2009," explains Simon Anholt, NBI founder and an independent advisor to over a dozen national governments around the world. "Despite recent economic turmoil, the U.S. actually gained significant ground. The results suggest that the new U.S. administration has been well received abroad and the American electorate's decision to vote in President Obama has given the United States the status of the world's most admired country."

Change we can believe in.

Oh, Australia is stuck in place 9 year over year. Sorry, bro.

There must be a mistake. We all know that Australia is the best at everything.

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It is common knowledge that the globe is full of anti-American communists. Given that, this worries me.

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Admired but not in the top 10 best places to live.

Let's hear it for Hollywood special effects! No, there's no income disparity...we don't imprison 25% of all prisoners on earth (for profit), we don't bow to lobbyists ever and it's great that the richer you are the better healthcare you get. How fair!

The US caters to the top 1% and they control the media and therefore stuffed the study IMHO

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All the commies love us now that one of their own is at the helm!

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The US caters to the top 1% and they control the media and therefore stuffed the study IMHO

The GfK - Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung e.V. - is a German market research institute. This isn't some stuffed study. If it was, how was America not #1 last year but #7? Forgot the stuffing last year?

With all the issues that this country is facing - rapidly rising income inequality, a health care system that sucks, lack of a social net and infrastructure which one would expect in one of the wealthiest nations on earth, to name a few - the US is still viewed as the country of opportunity around the world and - now that we're re-integrating ourselves into the international community - as a beacon of freedom and hope. I, as someone who made the US his home of choice, say it has that reputation for good reasons. And I am happy that America has regained the top spot.