It's official: We're top of the world Down Under
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Australian people were described as "honest" in the survey, a compliment shared only with people from Britain.
Most countries' populations were described as "hardworking", with some exceptions. Mexicans were thought to be "lazy", the French "intelligent", Americans "ambitious", New Zealanders, Swedes and Swiss "trustworthy" and Italians, Brazilians and Spaniards "fun".
Australia was about midway down the list when respondents were asked to rate their satisfaction with each country's products and their likelihood of buying them, both of which counted towards a relatively low overall export result.
But Tim Harcourt, the chief economist with Austrade, attributed this to Australia's commodities being largely "hidden".
"Germany has BMW, Finland has Nokia and Japan has Toyota … whereas most of our exports are things like coal and what you don't see on the supermarket shelves."
[ It's official: We're top of the world Down Under ]
Australian people were described as "honest" in the survey, a compliment shared only with people from Britain.
Most countries' populations were described as "hardworking", with some exceptions. Mexicans were thought to be "lazy", the French "intelligent", Americans "ambitious", New Zealanders, Swedes and Swiss "trustworthy" and Italians, Brazilians and Spaniards "fun".
Australia was about midway down the list when respondents were asked to rate their satisfaction with each country's products and their likelihood of buying them, both of which counted towards a relatively low overall export result.
But Tim Harcourt, the chief economist with Austrade, attributed this to Australia's commodities being largely "hidden".
"Germany has BMW, Finland has Nokia and Japan has Toyota … whereas most of our exports are things like coal and what you don't see on the supermarket shelves."
[ It's official: We're top of the world Down Under ]
posted by Dennis @ Tuesday, August 02, 2005
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