Seriously, Canada is a lovely country.
They may even do one or two things better than the USA, I just cannot think of it.
Universal Healthcare? Maybe not! Immigration enforcement? Maybe!
Lack of universal health care alone would keep me from ever moving to the US, but to each his own.
Actually, at one level, I am concerned what Canada, England and Australia “think” about us, since in historical conflicts during the past one-hundred years, only these three countries have demonstrated with their blood and friendship that they are worthy for US Americans to walk down into a dark alley with.
This relates to the study in a sense, which pointed out that military nations tended to not rank that high. You are basing your judgment on other countries based largely on how willing they are to fight the wars you think should be fought.
Oddly enough this sort of attitude is really not that "American" from a historical perspective. Remember the US sat out of a large part of both WW1 and WW2, getting involved only when they had no choice due to a attack on them.
It also goes largely against past US doctrine, like the Monroe Doctrine which was largely about leaving Europe to Europe and keeping Europe out of the western hemisphere.
They are simply part of the “Blame America First” crowd. They have that freedom, but tolerance has never meant acceptance of others’ beliefs, contrary to MTV.
So freedom to live your life however you want, just so long as you live it within these parameters?
Is it possible that you are the one blaming America? Why them? You have two groups of Americans with two opposing views. Why is one "American" and the other not?
So when a statistical opinion study - including a segment from 3rd-world, non-freedom hellholes criticizes us – it is to laugh.
Freedom is a funny word, it means different things to different people. As you stated above, you do not always accept others beliefs, they might not accept yours.
But lets look at freedom. In the US do gays have the freedom to marry? Can I smoke a joint? Do I have access to medical care when I need it, even if I have no money? Can I visit any country I choose (like Cuba)?
The US lacks certain freedoms because they are determined undesirable to have by the ruling parties, other countries just choose different freedoms to restrict then you do, some choose more, others less.
Now many American would object to those freedoms being granted to other them, oddly enough this happens in other places as well. There are also freedoms many Americans wish they had, but don't. Same thing as in other countries. There are freedoms other countries have that Americans don't think they should have, same for the reverse, you got freedoms people in other countries don't think you should have.
So who is to say which set of freedoms and restrictions is right and which is wrong? I believe that people should be free to do pretty much anything as long as it doesn't interfere with others, joint smoking included. Not everyone agrees, and that's ok.
But the key thing to remember is that America is not this shinning beacon of freedom, there are countries with more freedoms, and countries with less. On top of that some people believe you should have more, and others believe you should have less.
Sometimes those choices are limited by practical considerations, with a high population density and a high poverty rate things are going to be different then in a low population density and high income rate. Religious beliefs are also going to play a huge part, as is historical and current events.
I still remember twenty plus years ago - an American president was believed by the popular European & Worldwide culture (along with most of the US Mainstream Media) as a “crazy old warmonger” as he tried to strengthen the NATO Alliance and upgrade its weapon systems. That alliance against a country - which during the 20th Century in the name of their man-centric economic religion called Communism - had slaughtered tens of millions of their own subjects - along with occupying dozens of satellite countries and oppressing millions more...
Yet we were the bad guys?
Ok, now in the cold war neither side was entirely good or entirely bad.
Russia had a really rough time as they where also coming out of 2 major wars that had cost a lot more then they had in the US, a political revolution and fighting there way out of 3rd world status, I can't see that as a fair comparison to the US at the same time, which fought in the WW's at the end, and never on there home soil. There was expenses and loses, but no where near what where felt in Europe.
Now go back a bit to the American revolutions and it seems Americans have killed Americans in time of revolution, a couple of times. They have occupied and invaded countries killing all sorts of people, and they have used puppet governments and overthrown ones that they didn't like quite a few times in history.
But this is, I suspect, one of the contributing factors to the results of the poll. Other countries are more willing to admit there mistakes, the Germans certainly do, Russia does, China is a little different, but most of there influence has been internal... but like a little while ago they are coming out of a revolution and fighting out of 3rd world status, having been culturally and financially beaten by the west and Japan.
But many Americans, not all, but enough, seem to be in complete denial that the US can do any wrong when it interferes in the affairs of other countries, and if that country gets annoyed about it they "hate you for your freedom" or some other nonsense.
seems to indicate that appears to be a rare occurrence. So yay Canda 
