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Happiest America
By R J Rummel (08/04/05)
Two things first. One is that some people are having difficulty reading the small text on the tables or figures I put in the upper right. I have a 17" flat display, which is sharp enough at 1280X1024 resolution to read 8 point text. But, not everyone is so fortunate, and I keep forgetting that what I see may not be what other's see. So, from now on all figures and tables on this blog will be clickable to the larger website version. I will so note, as I've done on the figure above. Second, I've now revised the back of the Democratic Peace Chart to make it more legible. It was incredibly painful to have to eliminate a table/figure or so to make room, but I preserved the most important. Let me know. The online version (85dpi) of Version 6 is here, and the pdf (150dpi) is here. I've increased the resolution in both cases to improve legibility.
Okay, on to our happiness. As reported in the The Washington Times, a July 17 to July 21 Harris poll of 1,000 adults found that:
58 percent are "very satisfied with their lives," compared with a 15-country European average of 31 percent. In polls taken two years ago, those figures were 57 percent and 26 percent, respectively.
An additional 56 percent of Americans think their lives have improved since 2000, compared with a 45 percent average among the Europeans. Two years ago, 49 percent of Americans felt that their lives had improved, compared with 39 percent of Europeans. . . .
In order to make the comparisons, the Harris poll used the same questions posed to Europeans in the massive Eurobarometer survey released at the end of 2004, which surveyed 1,000 persons in member countries of the European Union.
A few individual countries outranked Americans on portions of the happy meter, Harris found. But not by much.
The only country that tops the United States in terms of overall satisfaction is Denmark, where 64 percent said they were "very satisfied" with their lives -- six points higher than their American counterparts.
Next in line was Luxembourg at 51 percent, the Netherlands and Sweden (tied at 44 percent), Ireland (39 percent) and Britain (33 percent). At the bottom of the heap were Germany (21 percent), France (18 percent), Italy (16 percent), Greece (14 percent) and Portugal (3 percent).
If American happiness is looked at in greater detail, as was done last October, Harris found that for 1,016 adult Americans:
Ninety-five percent feel good about their homes, 92 percent praised the quality of their lives overall, 91 percent were positive about their social lives, 88 percent said they were happy about their health and 85 percent gave thumbs up to their standard of living. . . . In addition, two-thirds of married respondents reported they were happy with their spouses — up seven points from last year, and the highest number in the history of the survey itself, which dates back to 1997. . . .
It found that 77 percent felt positive about "the morals and values in their community," up seven points since last year and 12 points since 1997. Another 55 percent applauded "the morals and values of Americans in general," up 8 points since last year, and 21 points since 1997.
Well, maybe there is something to greater American freedom and the free market (compared to Europe). This should be especially good news for the ethical utilitarians, who judge the goodness of a political system by the happiness of the greatest number.
Still, one must ask how come the media and academia are so negative about the country. You know, all the hunger, all the homeless, all the poverty, all the unemployed, all the crime, all the racism, all the price gauging, all the sexual discrimination, all the corrupt businesses, all the inequality, and above all, the Bush and neocon conspiracies. Something does not compute.
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R.J. Rummel is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He has published twenty-four nonfiction books (one that received an award for being among the most referenced), four novels, and about 100 peer-reviewed professional articles; has received the Susan Strange Award of the International Studies Association in 1999 for having intellectually most challenged the field; and in 2003 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association. He was a 1996 Nobel Peace Prize finalist.
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