Category: Happiness

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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Happiness of Others

The LNP in Australia simply can’t imagine that the Australian majority simply might not want what they do.

This is the problem with surveys such as Ipsos’s and Edelman’s — about which you are very unlikely to read anything unless you read publications such as the People’s Information Bureau (which is privately circulated) or columnists such as Alex Lo. Admitting that people who do not want what we have or to live as we live can be happy is in its subtle way devastating to our view of the world.

Let it be so: There is so very much about our worldview that must be devastated if we are to get anywhere in the 21st century worth getting to.

Source: PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Happiness of Others

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Global happiness: up six points since last year – 73% now say they are happy – Pearls and Irritations

Multiracial friends group taking selfie portrait.

Here’s something you don’t see reported in the WEST and certainly not in Australia that the Chinese are “fucking happy”

On average, nearly three in four (73%) adults across 32 markets describe themselves as happy, according to the results of a new Ipsos survey. Of all the markets surveyed, those with the highest proportions of happy citizens are China (mainland – 91%), Saudi Arabia (86%), and the Netherlands (85%).

Source: Global happiness: up six points since last year – 73% now say they are happy – Pearls and Irritations

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Social Democratic Nations Rank Happiest on Global Index (Again). US Ranking Falls (Again).

 

Out-sized corporate power and wealth inequality were named as reasons for Americans’ chronic unhappiness in the UN’s annual report

via Social Democratic Nations Rank Happiest on Global Index (Again). US Ranking Falls (Again).

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Trying to find happiness? The Latin Americans have the secret

The land-locked and swamp-ridden Central American nation of Paraguay emerges as the world capital of positive emotion, followed by Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela and El Salvador. You have to get to No. 9 in the list before you hit a non Latin American country – Canada, followed by the Philippines.

via Trying to find happiness? The Latin Americans have the secret

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Happiness Index: From Immigrants to Health, how Trump & GOP are making America Sad (Sad)

 

Happiness Index: From Immigrants to Health, how Trump & GOP are making America Sad (Sad)

In Australia The Great Sad started with Tony Abbott in 2009 after we dodged the GFC and News Corp declared that was Bad Bad Bad, “Ditch the Bitch” ( OD )

 

The World Happiness Index is out this year, and the United States is ranked only 18 for the years 2015-2017– lower than Iceland or Costa Rica, and not much ahead of places with real problems like Mexico and Brazil.

And, the US has fallen 4 spots in recent reports.

The US is still the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, so why isn’t it the happiest?

Because although a good income contributes to happiness, power doesn’t seem to, and wealth is only one of six things that makes a person happy (or else millionaires wouldn’t commit suicide).

It turns out that being generous to others makes you happy. Studies have shown if you just help a challenged person to cross the street or do other acts of random kindness everyday, your happiness increases. The World Happiness survey study finds that being welcoming to immigrants is a factor in a society being happy. The Trump administration is making us positively miserable on that scale.

via Happiness Index: From Immigrants to Health, how Trump & GOP are making America Sad (Sad)

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Finland is the happiest country on Earth, according to the UN’s World Happiness Report

 

 

The Nordic country renowned as the Land of the Midnight Sun is No. 1 in the World Happiness Report

Australia just scraped in the top ten list, at number 10.

Following Finland are Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand and Sweden.

via Finland is the happiest country on Earth, according to the UN’s World Happiness Report