I don't feel a lot of schadenfraude at learning this news:

The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike them, according to an opinion poll published on Friday.

The survey of six nations, carried out for the International Herald Tribune daily and France 24 TV station, said 44 percent of French people thought badly of themselves against 38 percent of U.S. respondents who had a negative view of the French.

To quote Cloris Leachman from the movie "Spanglish":

"Sometimes low self-esteem is just good common sense."