Americans have been voted the coolest people in the world in an international poll conducted by a social networking site.
Brazilians come second in the Coolest Nationalities poll conducted by Badoo.com.
We hear a lot in the media about anti-Americanism. But we sometimes forget how many people across the world consider Americans seriously cool, Reuters quoted Lloyd Price, Badoo's director of marketing, as saying.
While Spanish have emerged the coolest people in Europe, Belgians, Poles, Turks, Canadians and Germans have been voted the least five cool nationals in the poll. 30,000 people from worldwide took part in the poll.
Have a look at the world's ten coolest nationalities.
Americans are still the coolest guys in the world. "America boasts the world's coolest leader, Obama; the coolest rappers, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg; and the coolest man in technology, Steve Jobs of Apple, the man who even made geeks cool," says Lloyd Price, Badoo's director of marketing.REUTERS/Jim YoungThe Brazilians are ranked the second coolest nationality in the Badoo poll, thanks to Brazil's fun-loving zeal and its myriad carnivals.Image: Revellers of the Grande Rio samba school participate in the second night of the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome, March 7, 2011.
REUTERS/Ueslei MarcelinoThe Spanish have been voted the coolest nationality in Europe, beating Germans and Belgians. After all, isn't the world famous annual Spanish tomato fighting rather a cool stuff?Image: A reveller is covered with tomato pulp after the annual "Tomatina" (tomato fight) in the Mediterranean village of Bunol, near Valencia, August 31, 2011.
REUTERS/Heino KalisThere's no wonder why the Italians are in the top five slots of "coolest" nationalities. Every year, the world's attention draws towards a medieval time horse sports in Italy on July 2 and August 16, when 10 riders compete bareback , around Siena's shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child. Just cool and class apart!Image: Jockey Andrea Mari of the Giraffa (Giraffe) parish races with his horse Fedora Saura to win the Palio race in Siena August 16, 2011.
REUTERS/Giampiero SpositoPrince William and Kate Middleton have received around 60,000 cards and letters from the public wishing them a happy married life.REUTERSThanks to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 'Mr. Cool' image, that the Russian take the tenth slot of coolest nationalities list.Image: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries artifacts he recovered whilst diving at an archaeological site off the Taman peninsular in southern Russia August 10, 2011.
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