The ongoing Pew Global Attitudes Project issued a new report of findings June 23, 2005.

Considering markets, investments, partnerships and services abroad? Then consider these data points in the Pew survey:

• Anti-Americanism in Europe, the Middle East and Asia is modestly lower.
• Majorities in 10 of the 15 countries polled hold unfavorable opinions of the U. S.
• American foreign policy is viewed as largely indifferent to the interests of other countries.
• The conflict in Iraq remains broadly and deeply unpopular. In no country, including the U.S., does a majority think the war made the world safer.
• In most countries, Americans are viewed as "inventive" and "hardworking."

• Americans are seen by many in both Western and predominately Muslim countries as "violent" and "greedy."
• In Canada and the Muslim world, majorities regard Americans as "rude."
• Western nations see the U.S. as too religious; Muslims generally see it as not religious enough. Muslims are much more likely than others to see Americans as immoral.
• Indians hold the most uniformly positive views of Americans.
• Only in China does the majority not rate Americans "hardworking," though it does concede that Americans are "inventive."
• Americans increasingly value alliances with Western Europe and Canada, but that feeling is not reciprocated. Majorities throughout Western Europe and Canada prefer a more independent approach to security and diplomatic affairs.
• There is modest optimism among Muslims that the Middle East will become more democratic.
• Nearly seven-in-ten Americans think America is "generally disliked"—the most self-effacing assessment of global popularity given by any nation in the survey.
• Fewer than one-in-ten Western Europeans say they most trust the U.S. to do the right thing in protecting the world’s environment.