30 April 2007: Disliking the French

Newspaper The International Herald Tribune and TV station France 24 conducted a survey on which nations most dislike French people, and got a surprising result.

14 percent of Germans dislike the French, as do 25 percent of Italians, 29 percent of Spaniards, 33 percent of Britons and 38 percent of Americans.

But the people who dislike the French most are ... the French. 44 percent of French people thought badly of their own countrymen.