The World Map of Happiness
Katja sent me this link to The World Map of Happiness.
Created by Adrian White, Analytic Social Psychologist from the University of Leicester, it is a fascinating study of not only who is happy, but why. Health, Wealth, and Education seem to be key. It seems that the people of Denmark are a right happy bunch, coming in at 1st place. Finns (and if you've ever been in Finland in the winter, you would swear this a fraudulent result) came in at 7th, Americans at 23rd, the English at 41st, and the people of Fiji, as Katja pointed out, came in at 57.
*muttering: 'still wanna go to Fiji'...'my stapler'*
Labels: Finland
posted by Anniina | 2:00 PM
4 Comments:
Some of us actually love Finnish winter and autumn... Or studying Swedish... Or verilettu's... And I bet I couldn't find any of those things from Fiji :)
Dang, I hate the Finnish winter, verilettus (blood pancakes) make me sick to even think of... and I think the Finnish government is fascist for forcing me to learn Swedish, when I would have been much better served learning Latin or Italian. And Fiji has sunshine and palm trees and beaches. :P
the vacationers in Fiji are probably a lot more happy than the people who live there.
Yeah, I'm sure - but if I was rich enough to move there, I'd be rich enough to be on perma-vacation :P
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