Denmark named Happiest Country? (Iran, salary, Mexicans, ethic)
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Happiness is not about where you live; it's about what's in your heart. There may be many happy people in Denmark along with a whole bunch of miserable people; just like anywhere else. How can you generalize something as personal as happiness?
Happiness is not about where you live; it's about what's in your heart. There may be many happy people in Denmark along with a whole bunch of miserable people; just like anywhere else. How can you generalize something as personal as happiness?
No way. If you look close enought, Denmark has some of the highest levels of suicide and drug use in the world.
The whole "happiest" comes from the fact that they are very wealthy and small country with socialized healthcare. The thing is that dur to increasing illegal immigration from north africa and the Middle East, Denmark is having a ton of socio-economic problems, including strains on their welfare and healthcare systems. Denmark is also facing a lot of violent crimes, specially rapes and robberies. That si what happens when the first world gets invaded by the third.
That is why the Danes, along with the Swiss and other European nations is trying to control immigration, specially illegal immigration.
Note on how Denmark might have been chosen as #1 in the world: If the survey was done in San Francisco, Boston, and NYC, yes, the US will be voted all the way to the back, as thes eplaces have tons of Anti-American people. If the survey had been done elsewhere, I bet the US would be far up there. Oh and if "happiness" means drug use, then Denmark should definitely be #1!
if you ask any arabs, they will tell you danmark is not #1
Those Arabs who live in Denmark and don't like it should leave. Why Arabs who are from a completely different culture, religion, beliefs, dress and all would want to go to Denmark or similar country is not easy to understand. The Jews assimilated in America in ways needed despite their religion (maybe because of the OT which Christians believe). Arabs have by enlarge not assimilated and it gets worse all the time the larger their population becomes. These strong differences stay therefore do not create assimilation, and the ongoing diversity instead of unity that is required brings a country down in the end... this fact proven throughout history.
And the only reason we are that high on the suicide list is due to the fact that Greenland is counted as denmark in that survey, there is not many suicides, and not homocides eather in Denmark. we are a happy country, and as far as i can say having spend quite alot of time in quite alot of countries around the world, including the U.S and Canada. The majority of people in denmark is alot more happy then people where from what i saw over there.
But then again, why wouldent we be? we got a beautifull country, we got the best welfare system in the world, sure we do pay high taxes, but as one of the only countries in the world, we have a completely free healthcare system(you can even get plastic surgery if you claim that you have some psychologically problems, caused by whatever you whant to have changed)
We have no people poor people, poor understoud as people that cant aford food and shelter(if you are unemployed you get payed money from the state every month) we have a absolutely free school system. (yes even if we decide to study in the U.S for example. infact we even get payed money to study after you turn 18 ( Called "beer money" among students in Denmark)
Denmark is a clean country, a free country. we can say whatever we whant, when we whant! we are not a uptight country, not in our beleifs(in contrast to your bibble belt, and president) and every religion is accepted.
Why wouldent we be a happy country? nothing i have seen while traveling a large part of the world has proven to me that there is a better place to live then Denmark.
And the only reason we are that high on the suicide list is due to the fact that Greenland is counted as denmark in that survey, there is not many suicides, and not homocides eather in Denmark. we are a happy country, and as far as i can say having spend quite alot of time in quite alot of countries around the world, including the U.S and Canada. The majority of people in denmark is alot more happy then people where from what i saw over there.
But then again, why wouldent we be? we got a beautifull country, we got the best welfare system in the world, sure we do pay high taxes, but as one of the only countries in the world, we have a completely free healthcare system(you can even get plastic surgery if you claim that you have some psychologically problems, caused by whatever you whant to have changed)
We have no people poor people, poor understoud as people that cant aford food and shelter(if you are unemployed you get payed money from the state every month) we have a absolutely free school system. (yes even if we decide to study in the U.S for example. infact we even get payed money to study after you turn 18 ( Called "beer money" among students in Denmark)
Denmark is a clean country, a free country. we can say whatever we whant, when we whant! we are not a uptight country, not in our beleifs(in contrast to your bibble belt, and president) and every religion is accepted.
Why wouldent we be a happy country? nothing i have seen while traveling a large part of the world has proven to me that there is a better place to live then Denmark.
Thomas, a happy dane
The Danes are happy! They get great vacation time and many of them claim non specific stress disorders that allow them to take half the year off. A lot of them spend that time in Spain or other warm destinations. They have nothing to lose because all the money they would have made working would have been paid in as taxes. This is pretty incomprehensible to most Americans but that's how it works. The Danes have more leisure time, money, and free health care than anyone else. There is no incentive to work all the time. And working harder does not have any advantages attached. It's totally foreign to us. But it worked well for them.
I don't think their way of life is sustainable for much longer. Things are changing there.
The Danes are happy! They get great vacation time and many of them claim non specific stress disorders that allow them to take half the year off. A lot of them spend that time in Spain or other warm destinations. They have nothing to lose because all the money they would have made working would have been paid in as taxes. This is pretty incomprehensible to most Americans but that's how it works. The Danes have more leisure time, money, and free health care than anyone else. There is no incentive to work all the time. And working harder does not have any advantages attached. It's totally foreign to us. But it worked well for them.
I don't think their way of life is sustainable for much longer. Things are changing there.
Well, Socialism causes people to become lazy and it attracts lazy illegal aliens who drain inch after inch of the country's natural resources. No wonder the system is collapsing in Denmark.
As for "happy".... I don't think they area that happy. They have a very very high suicide rate.
Happiness does not come from having things or being lazy all day at home, as a lot of people are in Socialist countries. Happiness comes from within. The liberal Danish policy of drug-use and liberal mentality is a major contributing factor to the sucide rate there too.
Check out this article from a Psychologists association:
The point of departure of this interesting and challenging study is a statistical one, the well-known fact of the high suicidal rate in Denmark and Sweden and the perhaps less well-known one of the comparatively low rate in Norway. Hendin, a follower of Kardiner's interest in cross-cultural studies, saw an important opportunity to study and compare what he calls the psychosocial character of three closely related and relatively homogenous societies and at the same time scrutinize subtle differences in parental attitudes in the three Scandinavian countries. His hope obviously was that the discovery of these differences may shed some light on the discrepancy between the Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian suicide rates.
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