Saturday,
February 16, 2008
NYTimes;
One Italian in a Funk Can Generate as Much Happiness Static, as Three Danes on
Cloud Nine.
The
ANNOTICO Report
Last
Month, the
"Italians
are the least happy of 15 Western European nations.
Susan
Spano a writer for the LA times who spends a great
deal of time in
"One
Italian in a funk can generate as much happiness static, as
three Danes on cloud nine.
Clever
retort !!!
But
further I would say, I am suspect of Englanders measuring Happiness,..... who are rather dour
unless drunk :) :)
Further,
the alleged reasons reported for such Italian "funk", i.e.
"political chaos, organized crime, retrograde culture and economic
stagnation" are either inaccurate, distorted, overblown, and show no
understanding for Italian composure when faced with "difficulties".
It
seems that Subway Bombings in
Susan
Spano, Staff Writer
February
16, 2008
When I was in
Many Italians
took issue with the notion that the country is suffering from long-term,
apparently untreatable clinical depression. The New York Times
article was based on a
So finding out whether
Italians are really depressed will be high on my agenda when I move to
On the other
hand, I would guess that one Italian in a funk can generate as much
happiness static as three Danes on cloud nine.
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