Happiest Countries in the world

  • Thread starter Thread starter Johann_du_Toit
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
?Paraguay, 89
?Colombia, 84
Ecuador, 84
Guatemala, 84
Honduras, 82
?Panama, 82
Venezuela, 82
Costa Rica, 81
El Salvador, 81
Nicaragua, 81
The United States received a score of 79, making it the 15th happiest country in the world, tied with 11 other countries, including Argentina and Canada.
Click to expand...
How about the ten most unhappy.
?Sudan, 47
?Tunisia, 52
?Bangladesh, 54
?Serbia, 54
?Turkey, 54
?Bosnia and Herzegovina, 55
?Georgia, 55
?Lithuania, 55
?Nepal, 55
?Afghanistan, 55
Click to expand...
Russia is just above them at 65, 👍 and well below Saudi Arabia and Vietnam and China, all the western countries are happier.
 
Johann_du_Toit said:
news.yahoo.com/10-happiest-countries-latin-america-122841952.html?bcmt=1427160135339-853d9117-7901-4962-b7f9-467043ed4d7b_00006g000000000000000000000000-6bed3fd5-2a59-4d06-a526-bb2392554550&bcmt_s=u#mediacommentsugc_container

Although not explicitly stated in the article, all the countries on the “happiest” list are historically Catholic. Does that mean we Catholic are happier than most people?😃

Any opinions?
Click to expand...
The word “happy” comes from the root word “hap”, which means luck. So, to be “happy” basically means to have good luck. To be “unhappy” means to have bad luck.
Maybe a better word would be ‘peace’, a word the Bible uses.
That would put a different perspective on a silly list like this.
 
Son_of_Niall said:
That would put a different perspective on a silly list like this.
Click to expand...
Don’t like the link? Oh well opinions are always welcome. Thanks for the english lesson. I prefer Merriam Webster.

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/happy

Imho Had it been in reverse it would be biblical revelation of the Third Rome. :rolleyes:

No double standard at all. 😉
feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life, situation, etc.
Click to expand...
: showing or causing feelings of pleasure and enjoyment
Click to expand...
: pleased or glad about a particular situation, event, etc.
Click to expand...
🙂
 
Russia is just above them at 65, and well below Saudi Arabia and Vietnam and China, all the western countries are happier.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Must be the result of all those “Eastern values”

Could also explain the animostiy to the West: “Why should they be happy”😃
 
Johann_du_Toit said:
news.yahoo.com/10-happiest-countries-latin-america-122841952.html?bcmt=1427160135339-853d9117-7901-4962-b7f9-467043ed4d7b_00006g000000000000000000000000-6bed3fd5-2a59-4d06-a526-bb2392554550&bcmt_s=u#mediacommentsugc_container

Although not explicitly stated in the article, all the countries on the “happiest” list are historically Catholic. Does that mean we Catholic are happier than most people?😃

Any opinions?
Click to expand...
I like the link 👍

and yes it’s amazing that predominantly Catholic countries are listed

and philippines is #11 (also predominantly Catholic) 👍 👍 👍 👍
 
Son_of_Niall said:
I find it curious that you consistently bring Russia into every conversation, even on threads that have nothing to do with Russia.
Curious…
:hmmm:
Click to expand...
Lots of curiosity out here,🤷 but its apparent the Catholic populated countries are indeed “happy” . Thats a good thing for Catholics no? We should all be happy about that. 👍
 
Where’s… Denmark? They’ve been in the “happiest countries” list since six or seven years ago. Heck it’s part of their tourist campaign and “national” slogan.

AHHH! But that’s in a different poll! Which mostly consists of developed countries. And it’s from the World Happiness Report. Two years ago…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

There’s this other poll which lists Costa Rica as the happiest country on earth:
happyplanetindex.org/data/

There seems to be a conflict here. Scandinavian countries are happy because they’re content with life. But tropical, mostly Catholic countries are happy as well because of their (or should I say as a Filipino, our) love for life and joy. What do you guys think is going on?
 
GaryTaylor said:
Lots of curiosity out here,🤷 but its apparent the Catholic populated countries are indeed “happy” . Thats a good thing for Catholics no? We should all be happy about that. 👍
Click to expand...
On the list, the Philippines is number 11. I’ve lived there, and it’s true - despite lots of poverty the people are in general quite happy, friendly, and family-oriented… and mostly Catholic! 👍
 
I’m actually surprised that America rated so high.

In my lifetime, I have never seen Americans so stressed out and generally disgusted by the radical changes our country has gone through since 9/11. It has not been easy to be an American lately, and the stress is only likely to get worse as societal changes increase at a dizzying pace.

How I yearn for Happy Days and Richie Cunningham again!
 
I am from one of the countries on the top of this list -Panama. And being Panamenian, I am extremely familiar with another country on top of this list, Colombia. These list have to be taken with a grain of salt and look into more deeply. Also, as someone stated above, this is another list that differs from the World Happiness Report in which Panama and Denmark have topped the list of happiest countries for years.

Unfortunately I have to say that I don’t think that the fact that they are happy has to do with Catholicism, at least for Panama and Colombia which are both lands of contradictions. It has to do with the popular party and festive culture which many times is just an escape to the realities that are being lived in the country. In panama we say jokingly that you can have a war in the country and people instead of thinking about the war are throwing a party and getting drunk. People down there only think about partying, drinking and having a good time which unfortunately tends to derive into a degree of carelessness over issues in the country. For example Colombia has had to fought many years with massive problems due to the guerrilla so people’s way out of that is the festive party mentality. We don’t care as long as we have agua ardiente and a party going on. Same goes for Panama which is plagued with huge social issues but people tend to have a careless attitude over it and carry on by just partying and creating a festivity every single day.

Because of that you really have to take it with a grain of salt. Happy in which sense? Happy because they live in a healthy environment, because they are satisfied with their lives or happy because they are being careless about things?

Latin American countries are happy because the popular culture is festive generally speaking g. Also people tends to be friendlier because cities tend to be smaller and everyone knows each other and then again the popular culture is let’s drag everyone into the party style but people tend to be careless about important issues which results in extreme poverty and severe social problems.

Everything depends on the crystal that you are using to look at it.

I think Scandinavian countries tend to be happy because they are happy with the environment that they live and their good quality of life generally speaking…but Scandinavian countries also have the highest suicide rates in the world so that makes you think twice.
 
Son_of_Niall said:
Yeah, but you hopped on it right away didn’t ya?
Click to expand...
You can’t help but notice Russia is a bottom dweller on ALL the lists. And I don’t want to assume, but I would suggest those other countries around Russia who are unhappy, are a contingent to Russia. 🤷

However, I see “peace” coming with Russia and real happiness and friendship. Its inevitable and its gonna happen. 😉
 
Does anyone else hear that Pharrell song in their head while reading this thread?
 
tomarin said:
Does anyone else hear that Pharrell song in their head while reading this thread?
Click to expand...
You know, I’ve never heard that song and from various comments I’ve heard about it I hope I never do.

Topic -

I was surprised that Denmark wasn’t at the top. And are Russians allowed to say they aren’t happy?
 
“Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth”

:clapping::clapping::clapping:
 
Bruised_Reed said:
♪La la la - I don’t know what that means so it can’t get stuck in my head. 😃
Click to expand...
Good thing because it definitely would be stuck, tomarin did that on purpose. 😃

“Clap along if you know what happiness is to you”

:clapping::clapping::clapping: Oh yea, its stuck now.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top