# Brits think Americans most attractive people in world?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2010, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759 "2010-02-20T10:37:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/21 "2010-02-21T22:58:50Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Having traveled a bit, I have to agree with our British friends that the US, Spain and Brazil are at the top of the heap. > > And if I may be even more of a homer, I think Atlanta is at or near the top of the charts in the US. (At least in terms of attractive females.) Atlanta? Really? Huh. I don’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/22 "2010-02-21T23:08:47Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Personally, I loves me a frenchie. Not to talk to, mind. Just to gaze at from a far. Got to disagree with that second sentence there: in the same way that a British accent makes reading the phone book sound like Shakespeare, a woman with a French accent reading a refrigerator manual sounds like phone sex. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/23 "2010-02-21T23:38:42Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Atlanta? Really? Huh. I don’t see it. Definitely not. San Francisco, maybe. New York, even. I lived in Atlanta for four years and unless you come from one of those parts of the world where beauty is monstrous obesity… ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/24 "2010-02-22T00:00:26Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Definitely not. San Francisco, maybe. New York, even. I lived in Atlanta for four years and unless you come from one of those parts of the world where beauty is monstrous obesity… New York? New **YORK**?? You are automatically disqualified. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/25 "2010-02-22T00:03:23Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Atlanta? Really? Huh. I don’t see it. Just walk around one of the office districts at lunch time. Amazing scenery. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/26 "2010-02-22T00:15:16Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I’m not too surprised by the poll, though. Lots of people in the US have UK ancestory, particularly where I live: close to [50%](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire#Ancestry_groups) of people in NH have English, Irish and/or Scotish ancestory, and with the exception of Conn. the rest of New England has similiar ancestory in at least 30% of the population…which isn’t surprising since Irish and English represent two of the three most common [European ancestry groups](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Americans) in the US. It also isn’t surprising in a region called **New England** ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/27 "2010-02-22T00:39:35Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > New York? New **YORK**?? You are automatically disqualified. No fat people! (Well, if there are fat New Yorkers they hide them in the basements.) ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/28 "2010-02-22T01:39:14Z")
Traveling around Europe, I was always surprised at the general public perception of Americans as very attractive people. I could only conclude that it was the Europeans’ exposure to fit, young college students and actors/actresses in movies that had led to this belief. Certainly, if they actually visited America, they would be disavowed of this notion. In my own personal experience of places I have visited, Spaniards are the most attractive, and Brits the least. Sorry, Brits, you’re a pasty bunch. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/29 "2010-02-22T01:50:56Z")
I have eaten British food. Given this, their taste in anything should be highly suspect. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/30 "2010-02-22T03:12:53Z")
Colombian and Venezuelan women are of stunning beauty. Every one I’ve ever met would have been the best cover girl on Maxim nine months out of ten. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/31 "2010-02-22T04:12:51Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Colombian and Venezuelan women are of stunning beauty. Every one I’ve ever met would have been the best cover girl on Maxim nine months out of ten. I agree, but let’s not tell the British. It’ll just be our little secret. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/32 "2010-02-22T09:48:16Z")
Brits think Americans are the most attractive people in the world? I guess we don’t get out much then. ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/33 "2010-02-22T16:55:17Z")
Yay! I’ve always had a complex about not being an immaculately-dressed Argentinian or svelte Spaniard. Also, I think in all seriousness our “melting-potness” could really make us quite attractive, like Brazil. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/34 "2010-02-22T17:56:06Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > Even if we’re the most “attractive”, we can’t possibly be the “sexiest”. > > We don’t even have British accents. But that’s the beauty of it! To them we have sexy American accents! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/35 "2010-02-22T19:41:53Z")
I’m going to the UK this summer. Maybe I should pack a stick with which I can bat away all the women who will drawn to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/36 "2010-02-22T21:05:50Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > But that’s the beauty of it! To them we have sexy American accents! Didn’t help me when I was over there. Of course, maybe that my ancestry is all English and I have bad teeth, and I _looked like one of them_, worked against me. Got the teeth. Didn’t get the accent. Thanks, ancestors! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/37 "2010-02-22T21:08:39Z")
We also don’t allow our fatties onto airplanes (aeroplanes to you). So unless they’ve been over here, Brits are unlikely to see most of us in our full glory. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/38 "2010-02-22T22:56:43Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > But that’s the beauty of it! To them we have sexy American accents! What, we who? There ain’t nothing sexy about a northeaster accent. They seem to like southern accents, though, given how many of them seem to think we all speak with a drawl. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/39 "2010-02-23T00:18:23Z")
It must be our unusually fine teeth. And gums too, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759/40 "2010-02-23T02:33:49Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > I’m going to the UK this summer. Maybe I should pack a stick with which I can bat away all the women who will drawn to me. When I was there in 2005 they must have had different predilections, the only woman I met that that showed any interest in me was on a street corner in Glasgow and wanted paid for her time. ☹ > [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > I’d just like to clarify that this Brit would not choose to look to the US for the most attractive people, he’d either go to Sweden or the **Czech Republic**. 😃 Slavic accents, very nice indeed. If I could afford to get over the big moat you keep around your continent, I would visit some friends in Croatia, just to here them speak English. 😃 In my own travels I would have to say that Australia is outstanding in terms of female attractiveness. It seemed like every where I looked, there were hot women walking around. Of course, that was 11 years ago, so maybe they have all gotten ugly since then. But I doubt it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-think-americans-most-attractive-people-in-world/529759.md?page=1)