http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...he-worlds-most-and-least-emotional-countries/ Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on, among other things, their daily emotional experience. Their survey asks five questions, meant to gauge whether the respondent felt significant positive or negative emotions the day prior to the survey. The more times that people answer yes to questions such as Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?, the more emotional theyre deemed to be. Gallup has tallied up the average yes responses from respondents in almost every country on Earth. The results, which Ive mapped out above, are as fascinating as they are indecipherable. The color-coded key in the map indicates the average percentage of people who answered yes. Dark purple countries are the most emotional, yellow the least. Here are a few takeaways. Singapore is the least emotional country in the world. Singaporeans recognize they have a problem, Bloomberg Businessweek writes of the countrys emotional deficit, citing a culture in which schools discourage students from thinking of themselves as individuals. They also point to low work satisfaction, competitiveness, and the urban experience: Staying emotionally neutral could be a way of coping with the stress of urban life in a place where 82 percent of the population lives in government-built housing. The Philippines is the worlds most emotional country. Its not even close; the heavily Catholic, Southeast Asian nation, a former colony of Spain and the U.S., scores well above second-ranked El Salvador. continued.. English- and Spanish-speaking societies tend to be highly emotional and happy. Though the Anglophone nations of the world retain deep cultural links, its not clear if Spains emotional depth has anything to do with Latin Americas. According to Gallup, Latin America leads the world when it comes to positive emotions, with Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela at the top of that list. Yes, even Hugo Chavezs Venezuela is apparently filled with happy people. continued This is fascinating and there is a color coded map.
You seem livid that the dictator Chavez fares well in this pole? Explain it to me Margot, when you live on this continent and use it for your sovereignty as well as your economic protections. And to pursue liberty and practice those mundane inconsequential tasks like freedom that you obviously take for granted. Please tell me why you find the consequence of the failure and repudiation of your nation as something to be heralded.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I am not "livid".. Did you READ the article? I think its great the the people of VZ are happy.
Seriously Chavez is a dictator and your an American and those people are under political scrutiny and being repressed and living with less freedom than they may have under a different government??
Ok I will although I disagree with the article. Thank you for posting it its interesting none the less.
When I saw the headline of this, I thought for sure Russia would win for least emotional. (*)(*)(*)(*) Singapore ruins it for us former Soviet baby states.
Lol....so based on 5 questionable questions, we create a new world order where Italians are less emotional than US/Canada. Goodo...
Smiling and laughing makes one emotional? I think its funny how the map ended up being divided by western/ eastern hemisphere ... we are laughing at you, obvioulsy not with you What does it mean if they were gray like Namibia?
I always knew we (Australia) were borderline miseryguts. Just as well this was taken before we lost the Test series to South Africa....
Obama is a product of affirmative action. Bush was a product of his familys polkitical dynasty. And Chavez still has control of his nation with an iron grip especially the media. Chávez describes his policies to be anti-imperialist, and he is a vocal critic of neoliberalism and capitalism more generally, Chávez has been a prominent adversary of the United States' foreign policy.[
Never mind, there's always the Ashes... Oops! How about the rugby? oh no.... At least it's sunny today, isn't it?
Any poll that puts all the peoples of the UK on one level as regands things like laughing is itself laughable, I think, as are lines on a map. Did the Irish get happier when forced to speak English, I wonder. As to rugby, Colonel, you bloody shut up, miserable swine!
Vulcan Master: Emotions can be a powerful tool. To deny their existence is illogical. But you must learn to control them. Live long and prosper Earthlings.
