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Iceland is an outlier because the entire country is very isolated and has the population of a small city. The point I was trying to make is other factors than
by disordinary 10y ago
Iceland is an outlier because the entire country is very isolated and has the population of a small city.
The point I was trying to make is other factors than diversity skew those statistics, not that diverse countries are happier. I was being facetious.
The website that was posted tries to find negative statistics to perpetuate it's agenda and doesn't bother to quantify the information or look for other causes, it's closed minded, hateful, selfish, and harmful.
- flubert 10y ago>I was being facetious. Ah. One thing interesting that just now popped out at me while looking at the page for the "Happiness Index". In most ordinary lists, you wouldn't have any graphic, but Wikipedia has put the countries flag as an icon next to the text. Eight of the top ten happiest countries has a flag with a cross in it. The two outliers are Canada and the Netherlands. Apparently the Canadian flag had St. Georges cross on it until 1957. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada#Flags_used_in_Canada_from_1497_to_the_present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada#Flags_used_in_C...
- disordinary 10y agoIt's no surprise that the countries which are happiest are either from Northern Europe or are former British colonies. They are all wealthy, developed, educated, have low instances of religion, and are left leaning with tax payer funded healthcare, education, etc. I wonder how many countries that Queen Elizabeth is monarch of don't have union jacks on their flags. I can think of Canada and Jamaica, but there's bound to be more in the Caribbean and Pacific.