What’s wrong with Honk Hong and South Korea ? 90% says they’re very or rather happy and thinks only 20% of their peer does. I wonder if that’s linked to a cultural thing. Any Asian expert have an idea here ?
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One interpretation of the chart is that it shows the extent to which people think their fellow citizens are being honest when they say they are happy.
You don't have to be an Asian expert (wtf is that anyway?) to know that only people relatively well off participate in a survey. In countries with sufficient inequality those people know and see daily enough people in comparative misery around them.
If survey equally sampled people who eg. live in cage homes in “honk hong” or slave away for food at salt mines in SK who knows if results would differ
Knowing someone who grew up in HK, they're the most impossibly optimistic person I know. Maybe there's something in the food :P
From Hong Kong and I’m curious when this survey is conducted. Seriously I can’t imagine people being happy over the trauma the last few years
No.
This image was from 2017. Data maybe earlier.
Shouldn't this link get a [2017] in the title @dang ?
The date can be confirmed from the url itself.
Much negative bias in press and a culture of suffering?