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- To anyone who is reading or watching the articles and videos about Denmark.
It is a fake!!
People here are not happy. These englishman are confusing content with happiness which are basically two different things.
We have asked thousands of honest, and sober, danish citizens whether they believe that they are the worlds happiest or not.
http://www.revisionen.dk/artikel/vaelgerne-vender-h1n1vaccinen-ryggen
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The Danes are not the world's happiest people
Another poll on vaelger.dk shows surprising results about Danish happiness. Eight out of ten respondents believe that they are not the world's happiest. Only 3% think the opposite, whereas almost 20% believe that they are unhappy.
It contradicts the previous foreign studies. Recently Denmark came on the world map as the world's happiest people were when the American talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey visited Copenhagen in IOC Congress back in October 2009. - Reply to this comment
- Why is it that whenever someone comments that the American dream has not led to a dream society they are attacked?The Danes are antmen because they can't tolerate the rampant inequalities that you do?It's a person who is willing to treat life like some kind of lottery where the odds are stacked against you that is living an existance something less than human and humane.Let me tell you about your low taxes: they come at the cost of all the losers who die without a doctor even seeing them to put them in a waiting line,live in slums at rents of palaces in other countries because of the almighty rights of landlords,of chronically undereducated workers who are less and less able to defend themselves against outsourcing,of people who scramble from one lowpaid paycheck to the next until they tumble into their graves decades earlier than their more fortunate fellow citizens who got to be more fortunate because of old boys networks extending even to who got housing loans and farmland and decent jobs for centuries.If you think all of these wrongs are equaled by a lower taxation for those who could well afford to share with other Americans who could then in turn contribute more I can tell you that you will slip lower and lower in what is after all merely a survey on the degree of common decency a country has or lacks.
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- Here is a video titled "I Want To Live In A World Where..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjJKiCgFlGU - Reply to this comment
- We Americans are a good people; sincere, hardworking but sadly, easily manipulated into being smug, arrogant and self-delusional. We are led to believe that the "American Way" is best and that the rest of the world is envious of us. We are mistaken. The Danes - and many others - live the lives they wish with freedom, security and prosperity. I''ve spent a great deal of time in Denmark and with each visit, my love for this beautiful country and admiration for their way of life grows. We should be so content.
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- My happiness dramatically increased about 25 years ago when I heard a quotation of Benjamin Franklin: "I always expect the worst, and many times I am pleasantly surprised". It was an epiphany for me as my entire life had been based on the power of positive thinking, I pursued it relentlessly and it wasn''t working. Suddenly after reading this quotation I realized it''s wisdom. I can honestly say I am much happier because of it.
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- I''m appalled that anyone would take advice from a bunch of mediocre Sponges. Just happy to drift along and be paid by the government to sit home or take classes. Then the gall to tell us Americans to give up on the American Dream. This piece of journalism was mediocre. Happiness /or rather fullfillment is reaching ones potential not settling to live the life of a lap dog.
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- No mention of the high concentrations of omega oils in herring. omega oils are great mood stabilizers.
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- This is the kind of "change" I''d like to see in the U.S.
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- I too was absolutely offended that CBS would allow the final statement of its segment to bash the American dream. I''m sorry, but what does a naive and apparently untravelled and inexperienced guy from Denmark know about achieving the American Dream? Was our country not founded on having the freedom to do anything we wish to make our own realities, vs. other countries whose limitations and subtle communism dillutes their world to realites that are only allowed? I was insulted that we would even leave someone to vocalize that our dreams are a disappointment. CBS you''ve absolutely lost my respect. Great journalism. Way to support your own country and everything we stand for.
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- No mention of the high concentrations of omega oils in herring. omega oils are great mood stabilizers.
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