2022년도에 선택된 지구상에서 가장 행복하게 살기좋은 나라 20개국 선정되여 발표 됐는데, 눈길을 끄는것은 G7국가들 중에서, 이태리, 일본은 선정된 20개국에서 빠져 있다는점이 특이하다. 바꾸어 얘기하면, 경제적으로 잘 살고 있다고 평가되는 나라는 결코 국민들의 삶이 동시에 행복할수 있다는 등식은 성립 안된다는 뜻으로 이해됐다. 문재인정부가 주장하는,요즘 G8국가군의 대열에 등극했다는, 우리 한국역시 물론 20개국 대열에서 빠져 있다. 그래서 우리나라의 순위는 어디쯤에 있을까를 찾아보는데는 오리무중이다.
더욱히 문재인 좌파 정부의 지난 5년간 통치 행위로 국민들은, 오직 내편쪽 사람들을 제외하고는, 경제적 피곤함에 지쳐 지금 숨이 벅차서 100미터의 거리도 제대로 완주하지 못하고 쓰러질 지경으로 지쳐 있고, 특히 젊은 세대들의 방황이 앞으로 우리 나라가 집중적으로 치료해야할 큰 과제인것으로 파악된다.
유엔산하 기구인 World Happiness Report에 의하면, G7국가들 중에서, 일본과 이태리가 빠져있다. 국민들, 즉 자신들의 삶이 행복하다고 스스로 인정한 나라들의 대부분은 북구 스칸디나비아 지역의 Nordic 나라의 국민들은 비교적 그들의 삶이 행복하다는 긍정적인 평가를 한것으로 보인다.
경제적 부자여부만을 따진다면, 이들 Nordic 나라들은 G7또는 G8(우리한국 스스로 주장하는)군에 속하는 나라들은 아니다. 이번 설문조사는 지구상의 150개 국가를 상대로 만들어진 결과다. 이번 조사는 설문조사를 시작한지 10년째 되는 해로, 지구상에서 살아가는 사람들의 삶의 질과 행복감을 기본으로 조사했다고 한다.
우리한국의 순위는 어디쯤에 있을까? 라는 궁금증이 들어, 보도 내용을 찾아 봤으나, 단서를 밝힐만한 보도 내용은 없었다. 요즘 우리 한국사회에서는 문재인좌파 정부가 정권을 잡고 지난 5년간 통치를 하면서, 내편사람이 아니면 철저히 무시당하고, 외면당하는 사회를 만들어 국민들의 정서생활을 완전히 망가뜨려, 그결과로 나의 경제는 빈껍데기만 남아있고, 그런 환경속에서 일자리를 찾아 헤매는, 어깨가 축 처진 젊은이들이 거리를 헤매는 숫자는 엄청나는것으로 알고있다. 내편사람이 되면, 청와대에도 쉽게 취직이 되는 그런 세상이기에.... 젊은이들은 더 정서적으로 우울증, 자포자기, 심한 경우에는 "왜 우리 부모는 내편사람들 축에 끼지못해 그영향을 나까지 받아야 하나?"라는 자괴감에 빠져 헤여나지를 못하고 있다는 뉴스보도는 충격적이다.
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오는 5월10일 이후부터는 세상이 확 바뀔것으로 많은 국민들은 기대를 하고 있다. 정말로 그기대가 한갖 환상에서 끝나지 않기를 바라는 마음 간절하다. 한가지 긍정적으로 생각할수 있는점은, 가장 기본이면서도 중요한, 대통령 집무실이 지금의 문재인 청와대처럼 최소한 북괴간첩들의 소굴은 아닐것이라는 희망이다.
참고로 금년도, 2022년도에 가장 살기에 행복한 나라로 선택된 20개국의 나라 이름은 다음과 같다.
1. Finland, 2. Denmark, 3. Iceland, 4. Switzerland, 5. Netherlands, 6. Luxembourg
7. Sweden, 8. Norway, 9. Israel, 10. New Zealand, 11. Austria, 12. Australia,13. Ireland
14. Germany, 15. Canada, 16. United States, 17. United Kingdom,18. Czechia (Czech Republic)
19. Belgium, 20. France
금년이 지나고, 내년도에 다시 설문 조사를 할때는, 우리 대한민국도 20개국 안에 들어가는, 잘살고 행복감은 느끼면서 살아가는 나라의 대열에 들어 섰으면 하는 마음이다.
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(CNN) — Devastating loss of life and growing uncertainty have the world very much on edge, but there is a bit of good news for humanity: Benevolence is surging globally.
That's one of the key findings of the World Happiness Report, a publication of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network that draws on global survey data from people in about 150 countries.
Marking its 10th anniversary, the report looks at happiness around the world -- the happiest nations, those at the very bottom of the happiness scale and everything in between, plus the factors that tend to lead to greater happiness.
And with two years of Covid-19 pandemic data on the books, the report has uncovered something unexpected.
"The big surprise was that globally, in an uncoordinated way, there have been very large increases in all the three forms of benevolence that are asked about in the Gallup World Poll," John Helliwell, one of the report's three founding editors, told CNN Travel.
Donating to charity, helping a stranger and volunteering are all up, "especially the help to strangers in 2021, relative to either before the pandemic or 2020, by a very large amount in all regions of the world," said Helliwell, who is a professor emeritus at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.
The global average of the three measures jumped by about 25% in 2021 compared with pre-pandemic levels, the report says.
And benevolence is certainly top of mind as the world responds to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But before getting into how that increasingly global conflict may impact happiness, let's look at countries where the feeling was abundant in 2021.
World's happiest nation is Nordic
For the fifth year in a row, Finland is the world's happiest country, according to World Happiness Report rankings based largely on life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll.
The Nordic country and its neighbors Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland all score very well on the measures the report uses to explain its findings: healthy life expectancy, GDP per capita, social support in times of trouble, low corruption and high social trust, generosity in a community where people look after each other and freedom to make key life decisions.
Denmark comes in at No. 2 in this year's rankings, followed by Iceland at No. 3. Sweden and Norway are seventh and eighth, respectively.
Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg take places 4 through 6, with Israel coming in at No. 9 and New Zealand rounding out the top 10.
Canada (No. 15), the United States (No. 16) and the United Kingdom (No. 17) all made it into the top 20.
People gather for drinks on a sunny day in Helsinki in June 2020. For the fifth year in a row, Finland has ranked as the world's happiest country.
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Happiness in troubled times
Another bright spot in this year's report: Worry and stress dipped in the pandemic's second year. While they were still up 4% in 2021 versus pre-pandemic, worry and stress in 2020 were up by 8%.
"I think part of that is people knew a little more what they were dealing with in the second year, even if there were new surprises," Helliwell said.
Average life evaluations "have remained remarkably resilient" during the pandemic, with negative and positive influences offsetting each other, the report says.
"For the young, life satisfaction has fallen, while for those over 60, it has risen -- with little overall change," according to the report.
Helliwell acknowledges that there's a sense that crises bring out either the best or the worst in societies.
"But in general, people are too pessimistic about the goodwill in the societies they live in, so then when the actual disaster happens and they see other people responding positively to help others, it raises their opinion both of themselves and of their fellow citizens," Helliwell said.
"And so you find both trust in others and general life evaluations often rise in times when you think 'these are bad times,' but what's happening is people are working together to deal with them."
Right now, the world's eyes are on Ukraine, which is No. 98 in the World Happiness Report's rankings. Here, St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv is pictured on February 27, just days after Russian troops invaded the country.
Chris McGrath/Getty Images
This interplay of negative and positive very much applies to the situation in Ukraine, although how the scales will ultimately tip remains to be seen. Working together will certainly offset, to some degree, the tragedies affecting Ukrainians, Helliwell said.
"Their heartland is being attacked, so they'll be getting some coming-together effect, but of course the actual damage is terrible."
The effects the war will have on overall happiness in Russia are especially murky because government censorship distorts information that could inform life evaluations.
The surveys this year's happiness rankings were based on were conducted well before the invasion. Ukraine and Russia both fall into the bottom half of world rankings for happiness in the 2022 report, with Ukraine at No. 98 and Russia at No. 80.
At No. 146, Afghanistan is at the very bottom of the rankings in the 2022 report, "a stark reminder of the material and immaterial damage that war does to its many victims," Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, another report editor, said in a news release.
The current war raging in Ukraine means happiness in other parts of the world could teeter as well.
"It's conceivable some people seeing what war can do close up on their television screens every day to the lives of people who have nothing to do with war and want nothing to do with war can make them feel lucky they're not there or empathetic to the point of pain for the people who are there," Helliwell said.
"And they're both real and understandable emotions, but they're playing on opposite sides of the balance."
Hopefully, the uptick in benevolence -- in all its forms - carries into 2022 and beyond.
New Zealand ranked No. 10 on the world's happiest countries list. Here, Lake Tekapo's famous lupins bloom on New Zealand's South Island.
Norraset Sanee/Songkhla Studio/Adobe Stock
The world's happiest countries, 2022 edition
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Switzerland
5. Netherlands
6. Luxembourg
7. Sweden
8. Norway
9. Israel
10. New Zealand
11. Austria
12. Australia
13. Ireland
14. Germany
15. Canada
16. United States
17. United Kingdom
18. Czechia (Czech Republic)
19. Belgium
20. France
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-happiest-countries-2022-wellness/index.html
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