'Murikans may be stupid, selfish, and lazy, but we sure are purty.

[Matt]

Australia has damn good looking locals.

 

[Mblova]

LOL @ India being #8

 

[Mr Herbert]

Originally Posted by Matt

Australia has damn good looking locals.
im usually always suprised when i return home after being away for a long time how good it is here. some capital cities do better than others, it must be said.

Originally Posted by Mblova

LOL @ India being #8
you need to remember that this is a british poll.

there would have been loads of indians who wouldnt dare vote anything but 'india' in case their mums found out.

 

[West24]

this is marsupialed. i know im biased but israel. tel aviv is also rated top 10 cities for best lookin women in many rankings. woot.

 

[unjung]

Simple answer. 300 million people. All "like us." Media and entertainment finds the good ones.

Results: everyone's awareness of Americans is skewed to think a good chunk are hot.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by West24

this is marsupialed. i know im biased but israel. tel aviv is also rated top 10 cities for best lookin women in many rankings. woot.

Jewish, sephardic and ashkenazy is incredibly hit or miss. Women in israel over age 40 look like monsters. The only attractive ones have usually had extensive plastic surgery.

Now, the blonde blue eyed russian jews or the french jews tend to be hot, but generally they're few and far between.

 

[crazyquik]

This list brings tehLULz.

France behind England and India. Really?!?! You want to attach your name and journalistic credentials to that?

 

[Mr Herbert]

france is a lovely country with excellent food and lovely scenery. paris has some very well dressed women. but on the whole, especially outside paris, they arent very pleasing to the eye.

 

[Hombre Secreto]

Brazil because basically every race is represented in their people. If we all mixed we would look Brazilian.

 

[crazyquik]

Originally Posted by Mr Herbert

france is a lovely country with excellent food and lovely scenery. paris has some very well dressed women.

I think that is largely it though. If France and England are roughly equal in attractiveness, the more 'well dressed' or 'put togetherness' of French woman will push them ahead in the rankings.

 

[HHD]

One British hack wasn't impressed by the poll's findings: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/to...-in-the-world/ "Americans in flyover states are Ork-like creatures with low foreheads and torsos pumped full of custard"

 

[West24]

Originally Posted by SField

Jewish, sephardic and ashkenazy is incredibly hit or miss. Women in israel over age 40 look like monsters. The only attractive ones have usually had extensive plastic surgery.

Now, the blonde blue eyed russian jews or the french jews tend to be hot, but generally they're few and far between.

yeah but when im in israel i see tons of naturally very beautiful girls. nice tans and blue eyes. im guessing the combination of sephardic and ashkenazy parents. i almost never see these types out of israel.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by West24

yeah but when im in israel i see tons of naturally very beautiful girls. nice tans and blue eyes. im guessing the combination of sephardic and ashkenazy parents. i almost never see these types out of israel.

Your mom?

 

[AR_Six]

The notion that England is anywhere near the top 10 is hilarious.

 

[PaulSLH]

Its all down to Hollywood. I hadn't been to the States until recently, and whether you realise it or not, on a subconscious level an outsider's view of the US is heavily shaped by TV and films. I went to visit a friend at UPenn, and visited NYC, and life is certainly fairly accurately represented, at least in general terms, college with all the gothic quads and the sports, frat houses and keg parties, and NYC obviously comes across as NYC, except both come with the disappointing realisation that Americans look pretty much the same as the British.

I think realistically, any race, any country is going to have similar levels of ugly and good-looking people to any other. There may be variations in obesity or medical care which will affect some places, but the whole ranking is basically just perception, I think everywhere is really pretty even.