Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Chris Cantell Discusses Odd News: Let's Talk A Little About Happiness
by Milota Sidorova
Let's count it one by one! We are living in the world of miseries. Just take more often unpredictable weather disasters, generally rising prices, fears from continuously economic recession in all fronts, bulvar and negative evening news, hours, days and weeks, months and years spent pissed off by politicians robbing our money in legal way, shocking media press, unfair poverty in the countries of third world, where instead of food we like to send our atom rockets.
Rising criminality level, still xenophobic societies, drugs offered to children, prostitution and above all this American mother moody care about war conflicts all around the world.
In this way, being little bit conscious means to get drown in year lasting depression or started to hate the world. Maybe not that extreme, but even those the most beautiful minds must realize that this is not a walk through a pink garden. Not even a place to raise children.
However, Mr. Ronald Inglehart has spent last 17 years of his life solving the question of happiness.
Naïve? University of Michigan political scientist headed up the survey in more than 52 countries all over the world. The answers to just two simple questions, whether contestants after all feel happy and comfortable proved that people feel suddenly happier in exactly 40 countries, while index of happiness fell down just in the rest of 12 ones.
To examine more, he suggests that Danish are the most satisfied people in the world. True! After living almost half a year in this gate to Scandinavia I must admit that there is something incredible relaxing all over the country. Good economics? Active community life? Ecological agriculture? Sporting, gardening villages? Or entirely civilized environment?
Who knows, but you can't get wrong when recognizing Danish (at least during his office hours).
They can be incredible kind and helpful. They can even hug you when you come for some residence papers. Well, but this would be only one sided view deep inside the Danish culture. Sure, it has it's own dark sides, but if spoken generally, in Denmark everything is possible.
To reach the bottom of the list, Zimbabwe refers to be the most unsatisfied nation. Whether caused by the last faked elections that brought 6 times sworn Robert Mugawe back to the first lines or any other reason, that would be the question for more than few blogs.
Sure, and then we have this Big Apple fellas, living abroad the Great Sea. Surprised or not, more than 81 percents of Americans think that the situation got more than worse during last 25 years.
No doubts, when considering all those catastrophies that happen there.
Browsing the list of happy and unhappy nations, seems quite tragic comedy, when U.S. confidently declares. ''If you guys in OSN won't bring Zimbabwe under strict punishment, we will do it by ourselves! And we bet you, we won't ask anybody!''
Terrible enough, if you just think about the highest national debt caused by peaceful missions of Mr. Bush. Now it is America who is sitting on the box of dynamite. Being Mr. Bush I would rather focus my energy to save my own people. After that I am sure, that the world's happiness index would jump up to the stars.
But who can do something against the money talk?
However, people are somehow getting happier. And if it's so, it makes me happy, even for a while.
Because, whatever happens, the real values don't change that much, and one still can't buy its own peace for even a mountain of green bugs.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080630/sc_livescience/studyworldgetshappier;_ylt=AoeoLzBLOOBqanNnPmqukWys0NUE
PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.<br><br><font size=2>These news are original content from young talents around the world and are selected for you by Chris Cantell.</font><br>
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Rising criminality level, still xenophobic societies, drugs offered to children, prostitution and above all this American mother moody care about war conflicts all around the world.
In this way, being little bit conscious means to get drown in year lasting depression or started to hate the world. Maybe not that extreme, but even those the most beautiful minds must realize that this is not a walk through a pink garden. Not even a place to raise children.
However, Mr. Ronald Inglehart has spent last 17 years of his life solving the question of happiness.
Naïve? University of Michigan political scientist headed up the survey in more than 52 countries all over the world. The answers to just two simple questions, whether contestants after all feel happy and comfortable proved that people feel suddenly happier in exactly 40 countries, while index of happiness fell down just in the rest of 12 ones.
To examine more, he suggests that Danish are the most satisfied people in the world. True! After living almost half a year in this gate to Scandinavia I must admit that there is something incredible relaxing all over the country. Good economics? Active community life? Ecological agriculture? Sporting, gardening villages? Or entirely civilized environment?
Who knows, but you can't get wrong when recognizing Danish (at least during his office hours).
They can be incredible kind and helpful. They can even hug you when you come for some residence papers. Well, but this would be only one sided view deep inside the Danish culture. Sure, it has it's own dark sides, but if spoken generally, in Denmark everything is possible.
To reach the bottom of the list, Zimbabwe refers to be the most unsatisfied nation. Whether caused by the last faked elections that brought 6 times sworn Robert Mugawe back to the first lines or any other reason, that would be the question for more than few blogs.
Sure, and then we have this Big Apple fellas, living abroad the Great Sea. Surprised or not, more than 81 percents of Americans think that the situation got more than worse during last 25 years.
No doubts, when considering all those catastrophies that happen there.
Browsing the list of happy and unhappy nations, seems quite tragic comedy, when U.S. confidently declares. ''If you guys in OSN won't bring Zimbabwe under strict punishment, we will do it by ourselves! And we bet you, we won't ask anybody!''
Terrible enough, if you just think about the highest national debt caused by peaceful missions of Mr. Bush. Now it is America who is sitting on the box of dynamite. Being Mr. Bush I would rather focus my energy to save my own people. After that I am sure, that the world's happiness index would jump up to the stars.
But who can do something against the money talk?
However, people are somehow getting happier. And if it's so, it makes me happy, even for a while.
Because, whatever happens, the real values don't change that much, and one still can't buy its own peace for even a mountain of green bugs.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080630/sc_livescience/studyworldgetshappier;_ylt=AoeoLzBLOOBqanNnPmqukWys0NUE
| by Milota Sidorova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.<br><br><font size=2>These news are original content from young talents around the world and are selected for you by Chris Cantell.</font><br>
Odd News, CantellTV, Chris Cantell, Christopher Cantell, digital broadcasting, SigEx Foundry, SigEx Telecom
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