[Buddha-l] Happiest countries in the world

[Piya Tan]

The first place for happiest country I think goes to Bhutan, which has GDH
(gross
domestic happiness) instead of GDP.

The happiest place in Singapore in Jurong East, that's where I live :)

Piya



On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Katherine Masis <twin_oceans at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Alberto Todeschini wrote:
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> "I hope I'm not going to offend anyone but I find American society
> (where I've been living for some years now) as a whole to be
> particularly fake. That's, of course, a generalization against which I
> know plenty of individual exceptions. Hence -and for other reasons- I
> too am skeptical that people can and would report their level of
> happiness reliably and I have doubts about America ranking as one of
> the happiest countries on earth."
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> I'll add to what you just said.  I'm bilingual, bicultural [American
> (Californian) mom and Costa Rican dad] and bi-national.  But in the 9 years
> that I lived in the U.S., I grew tired of that "I'm doing great" mantra
> chanted out loud by so many folks 24/7.  I hope I'm not sounding
> judgmental—the habit just never clicked with me.
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> Interesting statistics on the happiest countries in the world.  Denmark and
> Switzerland vie for first place.  Costa Rica, Malta and the Netherlands vie
> for 5th place.  The USA and several other countries vie for 6th place.  So
> those "places" aren't held by just one country.
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> See the full list of countries, complete with world map, according to a
> study performed at University of Leicester.
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> White, A. (2007). A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge
> to Positive Psychology?  Psychtalk 56, 17-20.
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> http://www.le.ac.uk/users/aw57/world/sample.html
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> Katherine Masis
> San José, Costa Rica
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