{"id":127,"date":"2007-04-17T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/04\/17\/happy-danes\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:12:34","slug":"happy-danes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/04\/17\/happy-danes\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Danes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC Magazine is running an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/6563639.stm\">article about Denmark<\/a>, and how &#8220;happiness&#8221; surveys show that they are generally happier than the rest of us Europeans (I&#8217;m including Brits in that).  But, in classic BBC style, they need to tell both sides of the story; except in this case I&#8217;m not sure what they&#8217;re trying to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\">But there are others out to savage the myth of the happy Dane, arguing that low expectations of life account for their unusually happy disposition.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether the Danes have lower expectations or not, the assumption is: high expectations trump happiness.  That if you&#8217;re happy, but it&#8217;s because you are content with less, it somehow &#8220;doesn&#8217;t count&#8221;.  What rubbish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC Magazine is running an article about Denmark, and how &#8220;happiness&#8221; surveys show that they are generally happier than the rest of us Europeans (I&#8217;m including Brits in that). 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