Why are X people so rude?

 August 17th, 2012
Playing with autocomplete on search I noticed that people from lots of countries appear to be thought of as rude, at least by English speaking users of Google. Below are countries, ordered by how far down 'rude' is Google's list of suggestions for "why are X so":
1st Austrians, French people, Koreans, Somalis
2nd Chinese people, Germans, Iranians, South Africans
3rd Brits, Pakistanis
4th Indians, Israelis, Mexicans, People, Polish people
5th Americans, Brazillians, Japanese people
6th Turkish people, Vietnamese people
7th Canadians, Nigerians
10th Filipinos
not Australians, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Italians, Kenyans, Russians

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