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Spot The Oddly Optimistic One Out
"Exceptionally" optimistic, "exceptionally distracted" ignorance, or "exceptionally blind" faith?
Americans are also more upbeat than people in other wealthy nations when asked how their day is going. While we ask this question to help respondents get more comfortable with the interviewer, it provides a glimpse into people’s moods and reveals a slightly negative correlation between those saying the day is a good one and per capita gross domestic product.
About four-in-ten Americans (41%) described their day as a “particularly good day,” a much higher share than those in Germany (21%), the UK (27%) and Japan (8%).
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We can only assume that the stock market was soaring at the time...
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I have a hard time staying on topic here.
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The percentage of people having a "good day" is very close to the percentage of people getting EBT.
Coincidemce?
Americans are living in the past, clueless about the present, and soon to be squashed by future.
They're like the Eloi, but even more lacking in virtue and intelligence
Prozac Nation...
Once the mirror shatters, and Pandora's box opens....
I've been around a lot of nationalities but Americans are unique in the way they put up a fake positive front. I think this just shows that Americans are more likely to lie than others when asked this question.
american surveys use dibold.
this is very misleading because Americans we're taught to respond to a certain situation or question (like "how are you " from coast to coast (Pavlov reactions and "statements")
for example you cross some one's path and there is a mile of space between you two and the sheeple will still always say "Excuse me " lol
example number two: you get in a Elevator you get a fake smile and a quick "Hi" ( you can feel the whole thing is fake and cold, I rather you dont say anything )
the dax is soaring (as are many indexes). its a cultural thing. americans want to appear happy. its not cool to say you feel shitty. peer pressure. etc.
Did anyone notice the country at the bottom of happiness? Yep, the country that brought Hello Kitty and AKB48 is at the bottom. Radiation tends to make people unhappy.
When did Tunisia move to the Middle East?
may your mother bite off only one of your testicles
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America is more optimistic because America has better drugs.
Pity the fool who don't pick the right one.
Delusional !? Not too bright either...
no Canada?
Depending on what time of year, summer is exceptional, winter we are off the chart, better not ask :)
So when you cut me off in traffic and I call you a stupid son of a bitch this confirms I am accurate. I knew it.
Tyler, Should I move to Turkey or El Salvadore'?
Seem's Nigeria's the place to be - something to do with all those "Nigerian Prince" scams?? :-) Colombia's up there too - again, they have a "certain reputation" for lawlessness . . .
Now, look at "regulated into Obedience" Japan - the very home of "The Company Man" concept . . . .
Crime may not (necessarily??) pay, but the populations of the "wilder" Countries do seem to be a lot more upbeat. Maybe something about really "living to see another day" :-D
Panama was great. I would miss the seasons of the high lattitudes but the people and affordable high quality of life are very tempting.
This premise assumes honesty. Maybe Americans just tend to lie more.
I hang up on all surveys immediatly.
Most of us grumpy ones do
I don't know if it's like this in other nations, but we've sorta been trained a response to this question.
Anytime you ask someone how their day is going they'll just say fine or good, it's not even a real question anymore. It's basically a thoughtless greeting.
Have a nice day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZ6ixiVgCs
Makes sense. Americans are exceptional. Exceptionally delusional.
Americans are the most propagandized and brainwashed stupid people on Earth. Science and education has long eclipsed them and they live in a false reality steeped in their own brainwashed stupidity. In their own eyes they are the exceptional and chosen ones as the banksters and brainwashers butt-hole them and tell them how sweet it is.
Winner Winner, CHX Dinner. I love honest posters!
We can't give up on them. If we tell them enough times it might get through to their obscenely retarded brains. If we just help one of them it's a victory.
but we have really cheap gas
The answer is simple.... We have the best propaganda money can buy...
Along with the most opulent and flamboyant entertainment, with 24/7 availability to each and every one of "The Masses".
When you've been force-fed the dogma since you learned to talk, let alone read, the "programming" will be exceptionally hard to break.
A family with a one year-old came through our household a couple of years ago. The one year-old was better at her iPad than you are with your tablet. Shit is wack yo!
SB,
My kid is three and he is the only one of his buddies that does not have a tablet or any other type of gaming device. He does not seem to give a shit now...but one day he will. I do not want to fuck the little guy up so I might have to buy him some piece of shit in the future just so he feels that he is part of the clan so to speak. In the end I want ditching bullshit to be his decision and not mine.
Youse a good dad, Philo. A good balance can still be struck - teach the ways of old, i.e. being outside and doing outside things. If you instill that electronics for productivity only, not for mindless/soulless entertainment, the kid'll get it faster than you think. Unfortunately, the skools have a different agenda - they're pushing iPads galore, from kindergarten on.
I think you have to couple that with Zoloft and EBT to make that work.
Miffed;-)
Although this happens to me more often than I would like in the UK these days, the faux American service industry standard "Have a nice day" with a plastic smile always disturbed me in its pitiful insincerity and slavish adherence to corporate protocol.
The first time I heard it, as a child visiting the US, I was so taken aback that I took the lady's hand, shook it, and said "That's so very sweet of you. Thank you very much". Then later came the realization that it was all horribly forced and fake like the rest of the country. Nowadays I am much more likely to reply, "Do I have to?" with a grin of solidarity for the surly serfs to enjoy a tiny sliver of real human interaction in their monotonous drudgery.
So, perhaps it's not surprising that Americans are having a particularly super duper awesome day since it is a daily automatic ritual for them. An automatic response from "Winners", because only losers have bad days. It's surprising that it isn't higher which must mean that the days of being able to hide the bloody economic pile up with fake jubilations and cosmetic dentistry must be coming to an end.
Reality reigns true my friend. What happened to "common sense"?
to hold the position and name of sovereign without exercising the ruling power. Think about that comment<>Try Paris sometime.
Nothing says "drop dead" better than customer service while on a shopping trip there. Still..honesty is always appreciated. "If you have to ask you can't afford it."
For the record I thought Kindergarten Cop was a good movie tho.
America is the home of Hollywood. You wanna shoot out at the Fantasy Factory? Doesn't get any bigger...
"Welcome to Costco. I love you"
Dat sheet don fli in da hood beech.
I suppose you don't like smiley faces, either.
Who says 'taken aback'?..
Have a nice day.
:) <~~~~ smile
Apparently me. I'm no Hugh Grant, but I stopped saying Oopsadaisies only last week. ;)
Big Picture: the world order is clearly broken if the majority of the people are having a bad time. WTF.
Seems like wake up call to TPTB, who condone this broken order, to start militarizing police forces everywhere...oh wait!
How can Kaliforia build a high speed train if they're out of water?
With all the money they saved by not building power plants and desalination plants.
Monopoly should've been rated PG-13. It taught too many people stuff.
Good thing that no one has even heard of the game anymore.
If Mature board games were to re-serge Anarchy would be popular.
And Relying upon FEMA (the other states' taxpayers) to rebuild their uninsured homes atop the San Andreas Fault when, not if, those uh ohs come.......repeatedly.
The fact that 23% of American women take anti-depressants wouldn't factor into this at all...
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/astounding-increase-in-antidepressant...
Who won the last World War
This clip from "We were soliders" is the best example of how to answer "Good Morning" or such......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwATvALiQ_8
Heh, love that , remind me of retired E9 spec ops guy I know.
You'd think maybe the Aussie's would be #1. G'day!
Have a nice day! [/forrest gump, not a full retard]
Did anyone notice that ZH publishes crap more and more often?
If I want to read things like this I'll go to dailyfail.
Gathering and culling the herd.
I come here for the laughs, no reason or responsibility here.
"If I want to read things like this I'll go to dailyfail"
Nonsense. This optimism thing is highly relevant to the markets. The question is whether this optimism is driving the markets or whether the markets are driving the optimism. Similarly, this delusional optimism about American military power seems that it might be connected as well. Our matrix is more powerful than the matrix that is yet in its early stages in other parts of the World.
Survey Sez:
The less you earn the more likely you're having a good day.
That kinda goes against the whole US materialism cultural mindset.
We're exceptionally positive.
Burn this bitch down!
I'm moderately not quite unwell. Have a nice fking day, knts!
Hmm. no Canada. Guess they really are the neighbour of Rwanda as some wag suggested in a comment for an earlier post (Friday Mar 13)
US oil production could change that optimism. In the Bakken, only 57 additional wells in January and production down from December. Production was up from Dec 2013 to Jan 2014 with 100+ new wells. The plunge in prices may not last unless USA starts to import more oil.
Americans from Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island & New Hampshire
took part in the survey conducted on Super bowl sunday night. The others had retired early.
Are you serious? The survey only covered the New England states, just when the Patriots win the Super Bowl? Of course that was a helluva good day for New England residents!
The other option for americans was to eat a cow's ass. So 59% of americans would rather eat a cow's ass than lie and say their day was good.
It seems to me that the US is the "odd one out" in the optimism charts only because of the choice to make the graph related to GDP per capita. If you were to do it by longitude (hear me out), the US would fit in better.
Here's how I read the chart: Countries in America tend to be more optimistic, while those in Europe and Asia are less so. Africa is less consistent. By splitting the United States from the rest of the American countries on the chart (the rest being labeled "Latin America"), it seems more different. But culturally all Americans are more optimstic (Latin or Anglo), while Eurasian less so. Since most of the other wealthy countries are in Eurasia, the US seems out of line.
A different way to write the headline: The US is by far the wealthiest (GDP per capita) of the optimistic American countries.