The U.S. ranks 3rd in liking the United States

It's 2012, why don't we look at the 2012 rankings where it's #1?

What happened to Kenya and Lithuania? Did some American backpackers do something horribly insensitive?

They weren't included in the poll for that year.

And not blogspam...

They need to normalize this against the general amicability of the population of the countries.

Ask them if they like North Korea and Canada and use that as a general idea for if the country's citizens just happen to like everyone.

IMHO it's a far more sane country if it has some proportion of it's population who are critical of themselves (and others)

Then again I am british and the only person we loathe more than 'Johnny Foreigner' is ourselves.