U.S. Image Rebounds Abroad

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  06.13.08 | 9:35 AM ET

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In 10 of 21 countries, according to the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey. Tanzanians are really showing the love, up 19 points in favorable views of the U.S. over last year. Has Obama-mania crept across the Kenyan border? In nearly all countries surveyed, people express more confidence in Obama than McCain on foreign policy. That jibes with this dispatch from Cairo.

Tags: Global Village, North America, United States, News and Briefs

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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