And Canada appears to have reduced happiness, I suspect due in part to our proximity to the USA.
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I don't get how Finland managed to push Denmark to 2nd place?? 🤔
We have way more bacon and beer than they do. 🥓🥓 🍻🍻
Look I even had enough beer and bacon to share it with EVERYBODY on the internet!!
Anyways congrats to our Finish brothers. 👍 😀
🥓🥓Maybe🍻🍻, but we have 🍸vodka🍸 and russian drinking habbits. All the sad people are dead.
Oh so that's the secret, I thought there was something fishy about this, very clever and well played. 😋
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Can relate. Am I secretly a Finlandian?
Oh that’s what we got wrong in Iceland, we should’ve kept that red line out of our flag!
Thats hilarious. I love that about finnish people, its a no bullshit country. Say what you mean, do what you say.
I wonder which US state most closely resembles this. Probably in the NE
Minnesota and Upper peninsula could be closest
Many Finnish people historically immigrated to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Iron Range of northern Minnesota to work in the mining industry; much of the population in these regions is of Finnish descent.
A lot of Mainers or northern New Englanders are like that too. My wife things the North Michiganders talk a lot compared to Mainers.
Damn socialists with their happiness. If my neighbour is happy, it makes me mad /s
You joke, but this is literally how the average American thinks.
I literally had that conversation.
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The United States is still at 24th, where do they rank amongst first world countries?
Presumably nr 24...
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There’s no way. It’s dark half the year and every Finnish people I met didn’t look happy at all, or at least they didn’t express it whatsoever.
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Here's an old Finnish joke:
Why are people in Finland the happiest people on Earth?
Because all the sad people have killed themselves.
It sucks that we still have that reputation abroad. We're doing a lot better in that front. Also at least 2019 and 2016 our suicide rate was actually lower than the US, where a lot of these jokes come from (I was pretty surprised)
That's why I said it's an old Finnish joke.
I lived in Finland long enough to know that the Finns are not really happy. Or unhappy. Or excited. Or anything at all. If they are, they hide it really really well. The only true sentiment I ever felt in the Finns is quiet pride of their country.
Yes, I'm more lamenting the reputation abroad where such views take longer to change.
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That's what you get when everyone has a sauna.
And yes, many homes have it and one thing my Finnish friend does is sauna up and then jump in the snow. That'll wake you up.
It is like being a Nazi does not make you happy. Imagine that.
I dunno, man. Israel being 8th is pretty fucked up.
If you had a territory where you could sort mostly the wealthy people into one "country" and mostly the poor people into another "country", you could make one really happy and one really sad country.
I'm sure if they counted the Arab population in the calculation, it would be much lower.
Israel has dived head first into being Nazis and they're almost all fucking about it. They're just happy they get to ~~exterminate the jews~~ be the ones doing the extermination this time.
The 'problem' the US has is only 1/3 of us have embraced being nazis, while another 1/3 doesn't give a shit.
There's substantial Israelis who aren't calling for genocide. But it's like the US after 9-11 and they've mostly gone into hiding because the right-wing media presence is so overpowering and successful on the "with us or against us" message.
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