Why Danes are smug

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Do I really care if Brunei/Bhutan/St. Kitts and Nevis have greater happiness than the US? Would a lifelong US citizen really find any added measure of happiness in those countries, let alone Denmark?

I've lived overseas for 20 years, so you can't accuse me of blind provincialism, I have ample real life experiences to compare against my time in the United States.

Is a happiness score of 273 in Denmark that much higher as to alarm me about the US only scoring a 247; only 10% lower than the Danes? Nonsense.

So, despite your experiences of having lived overseas in your arrogance you suggest that understanding happiness must and can ONLY be done by seeing it through an Amercian eyes? lol It's not nonsense -it's real!

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Maybe the relative lack of happiness in the US is simply due to the unrealistic expectations its citizens have of how their lives should turn out due to living in the ultimate "land of opportunity" whereas Danes are "just happy to be here".

That's kind of the point of the study -at least what 60 minutes had to say about it. And actually isn't it true that "men are that they might have joy". Obviously a greater portion of the first world finds joy living a lifestyle that is NOT American.