w0rldgothic2
4th June 2011 |
Turkey and nigeria very happy people lol
and where's thailand and morocco... |
venezuela
4th May 2011 |
Yes, we are very happy thanks to Chavez, very happy, we are still free to go and move to a different country! thought we love Venezuela. fully behind 15 may 2010 remarks. |
Dana Venezuelan
9th February 2011 |
I am venezuelan and I think Venezuelan are #1 because for us it is abnormal to respond "so and so" or "not too bad" to the question How are you? regardless of whether we feel good or not, it is like if by some kind of social rule we always say "we are feeling good". I do believe that more than been happy, what we really are is positive people and in some way conformists as well.
Now that I have been living abroud for a period of time, I can see how many things we do lack in our country "basic things" and still we can not recognise we are not happy and many people still say "I am very happy indeed"
Well, good for us to be #1 but I do hope one day this #1 can be translated into real wellbeing for all of our citizens. |
Susy40 UK
22nd September 2010 |
I think we Venezuelans are very hhapy people, I live now in the UK and really i have to say these people here are so miserables and unhappy, they are allways compalining about stupid things, the only thing they think about is money, to buy the bigger house possible, the new car, and in reality they are so unhappy with themself, they need to be drunk to feel happy, and thats when I realise how lucky I am to be born in a country like Venezuela, that with all our problems, politics, financials, insecurity, we still smiling and feeling great about our self, so I am not surprise we are in the top in the world, and really money is not everything for people to be happy, just you need is a positive mind and love people. |
Ranga
30th August 2010 |
It's interesting to see this survey.... It's not the people of richest country or people of most powerful country are happy. But people of countries in peace and non-hostility with neighbour countries are happy.... |
VenezuelanGirl
29th June 2010 |
I am a very happy Venezuelan because I have great sense of humor and happiness is a state of mind. But our government is the worst ever. Chavez is taking our country to chaotic situations in all levels of wellbeing: Health, Education, Democracy, Freedom of Speech and Public Safety. Despite all that, we do smile in self-defense. |
Venezolano_tambien
10th June 2010 |
Well is not the first time that Venezuela has been the top of the list and has nothing to do with Chavez. Venezuelan people is always cheering, making jokes, finding time for the "panas" (local word that means friends) and making sure that you are always close to family. In the new way of positive pshycology, started by Edward Diener, Martin
Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, founders of the Positive Psichology they have shown that first More than 50% of the Happiness comes from Genetics and the rest is based on the social factors. However they show that Wealth, Intelligence, Sunny Days have nothing to do with happiness, once that the basics are covered you don't need much to be happpier. While the happiest people in any culture are those who have the strongest family ties and close friends.
I bet if you have people from Cuba and Puerto Rico, they would have scored very high (their pool of genes is very similar to the venezuelans one, we are a mix of africans, spanish and natives caribbeans and arawacs) See Nigerians are up in the list too, a country with as many problems as Venezuela, but their people is happy.
And even Chavez makes us happy sometimes, haven't you heard any jokes about Chavez lately? There are hundreds around, so yes we can even make fun out of our misery.
Just a reflection. |
Ed
17th May 2010 |
They only interviewed those pro-chavez. They really should be happy: I don't work, they (government) give me a check every month. I can't study t university(cause I'm dumb or can't pass the national tests); but they give me a seat in one of the revolutionary universities and graduate in 4 years as a Dr. I don't have a house or lands; they give a plot or apartment taken from those bad white people...just a plot, the rest is for the leaders. I don't have personal security; they provide the leader with Cuban staff, and I am still without security...but never mind with a "stampita " of Fidel I am protected and happy. |
Venezuelan, Cheerful yet not really happ
15th April 2010 |
Venezuelans are definitely cheerful people, which doesn't necessarily mean that we are truly happy and satisfied. Nowadays, political and social situation has worsened, however we are always looking at the bright side and making and telling jokes about the bad situations we are experiencing... but still... it isn't true we are happy about chavez... our life quality has worsened there's no social security, from 50 to 60 people killed every weekend, inflation rising and rising, exchenge control... there's no way we could be happy... we are simply cheerful... |
people of venezuela
21st March 2010 |
We are happy thanks to Chavez¡¡¡¡ We are proud to be Venezuelans, we are free, and we are guiding our destiny. We are not a colony any more, nor a back yard of any empire. |
Sweeeeet
20th March 2010 |
Well the thing about this question is it very hard to determine what constitutes happiness, and whether saying you're happy actually means your happy. Maybe they can do some like CT scan and figure out if people are really happy or just FAKING happiness to do well in the survey. |
Wondering in the USA
24th October 2009 |
How in the world can a person living in Connecticut generalize the entire US of A? Maybe misery loves company and that is what you are attracting. I'm in South Carolina and loving it and the wonderful people I've met here (been here since May). Before that I was in Michigan where I met hard working people who are trying to make a living in a dying auto industry. Prior to that I was in California where I met and talked with people everywhere who were open, intelligent and loving. Were there rude people? Anywhere on the planet you have the potential of running into rude people - moreso if you yourself are rude, or complainy, etc. Just a thought. |
imscythe
13th August 2008 |
Philippines is up there because they are easily satisfied with simple things in life, happy that they're with their family. They work to live and not live to work like most of the developed countries which makes their life a lot stressful, well-off but not really happy. |
Doug (Canada)
29th July 2008 |
Where are the SE Asian countries?
I met a lot of happy people in Thailand.
Myanmar, too, before the floods. |
Anna (Southern United States)
8th July 2008 |
these statistics feel a little iffy....the number of people that would describe themselves as 'quite happy' (from any given country) could far exceed the number from another country that described themselves as either "very happy" or "quite happy" or even the two put together...making first said country weigh out differently from what is reported.
as in the hypothetical situation that
country 'A' reported 5% as 'very happy'& 90% as 'quite happy'
and
country 'B' reported 10% as 'very happy' and only 15% as 'quite happy'
country 'A' would be reported as half as happy as country 'B', although 'A' has 95% 'happy' people & 'B' only has 25% 'happy' people...
that's probably a pretty crappy demonstration of what i mean...but you can kinda get the point... |
griselle (Canada)
5th June 2006 |
I'm from Venezuela and i've lived there a big part of my life and i've also lived in the US and i´m now living in Canada and i can say for sure that the difference is not in how rich people are but in their culture. In Venezuela everyone's happy no matter how poor they are...they're very optimistic and it's all about partying and having fun. People especially in North America are too materialistic and define happiness as how much money they have. And as we all know happiness is not about money...so it's no surprise at all that Venezuela is at the top of the list, especially after you have lived in the country and seen for yourself how wonderful and heartwarming the people are |
dick fridg
23rd November 2005 |
i can understand why man will be happy in Venezuela it has the highest beautiful women per capita in the world |
Belliappa PK
6th October 2005 |
From todays google news site, in the survey by market research company GfK NOP, India ranks 4th highest for people who are very happy, and Egypt is 3rd in place. This seems to be a sudden jump from the 25th place for India, if both sources of this statistics are equally accurate. |
Disoblige
13th September 2005 |
I used to be living in Philippines before I immigrated to Canada.I think i know why Philippines has a higher stat in this survey than the satisfaction survey. If you ask Filipinos if "they like their lives", they would first think of their job and money. Filipino would say they are happy because they really value their family , friends and the little things they have. |
Lelia Katherine Thomas
29th August 2005 |
Unhappy yet satisfied , why is there a surprise that there's no correlation? Happiness does not equal satisfaction or vice-versa. For instance...
You can be living off of a good salary and benefits and be satisfied with life. That, however, does not mean that you'll wake up smiling or have a bunch of friends, etc.
In contrast, you can have a big family, a bunch of friends, and a good sense of humor, and never make as much money as what many strive to attain, but be happy. Just because you don't have huge job opportunities, which might attribute to a slight feeling of dissatisfaction, doesn't mean you can't be happy emotionally.
To me, satisfaction has to do with necessities and materials. Happiness has to do with spirituality and emotions.
Just a thought. |
Unhappy yet satisfied
23rd June 2005 |
James, I am not sure if I trust either the happiness index or the satisfaction index, especially after hearing that there is no correlation between the two. I'd like to see how the World Values Survey overcomes the obstacle of keeping a constant definition of "happiness" and "satisfaction" across all languages. Perhaps the Icelandic word for "happiness" translates to the Slovak word for "hundred potatoes". While many Icelandic people are happy, few Slovaks have 100 potatoes. |
Mauricio Pita
25th May 2005 |
i was born and raised in Venezuela and I currently live in Connecticut, USA.. and I have to say with all the money USA has the people here are so miserable and unhappy.. They always either have a problem or are complaining about something.. In Venezuela people are extremely open minded, happy, worry-free and really enjoy life |
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