Tuesday, January 09, 2007

All Is Not So Bad in the State of Denmark

All Is Not So Bad in the State of Denmark

over the past 30 years, the citizens of Denmark have scored higher than any other Western country on measures of life satisfaction, and scientists think they know why.
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the country’s secret is a culture of low expectations.
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But on surveys, Danes continually report lower expectations for the year to come, compared with most other nations. And “year after year, they are pleasantly surprised to find that not everything is getting more rotten in the state of Denmark,” the paper concludes.

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