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From: zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Future of online fora
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 06:23:45 -0400
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On 4/8/2025 9:22 PM, John B. wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:22:13 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/8/2025 10:05 AM, John B. wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 08:59:52 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/8/2025 8:21 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 05:54:43 -0400, zen cycle
>>>>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/8/2025 5:48 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 05:19:27 -0400, zen cycle
>>>>>>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/7/2025 8:09 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/7/2025 5:52 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> People who don't like 'things as they are' include communist
>>>>>>>>>>> idealists, Libertarians and jihadis.  Over to you.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> But where are the people who are happy with "convention?"
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>>>> C'est bon
>>>>>>>>>> Soloman
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I looked up how they rated "happiness"and it seems to be based on, GDP
>>>>>>> per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom,
>>>>>>> generosity, and corruption.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From, reading their site
>>>>>>> https://worldhappiness.report/faq/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> it seems to be more of a level of satisfaction of citizens who have
>>>>>>> never lived in foreign countries and thus are not capable of comparing
>>>>>>> life here wit life over there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know where you got that, I don't see any reference to 'people
>>>>>> who have never lived in other countries'. If it's there and I missed it,
>>>>>> please post the reference.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Be that as it may, it isn't really relevant. If you're happy, your
>>>>>> happy. whether you've lived somewhere else really doesn't factor into it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Poor wording.
>>>>> Second try: the level of satisfaction of citizens who have no other
>>>>> experiences which they can use to evaluate their present life.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And where did you get the information that they had no other life
>>>> experiences?>
>>>
>>> It's pretty obvious. Just look at the average U.S, tourist. They
>>> arrive knowing nothing about the country and leave knowing no  more
>>> then when they arrived.
>>
>> Not obvious at all.
> 
> Not obvious? Even a simple thing like not wearing your shoes in a
> Temple is beyond them. My wife and I visited the Wat Pho temple and
> there must have been 50 pairs of shoes at the entrance and an American
> girl was asking her mother, "Do I have to take my shoes off?"
> 
> Now I do understand that taking ones shoes off to enter a religious
> place is perhaps unique to some places in Asia but the 50 pairs of
> shoes at the entrance might have been a clue that something is
> different here. Or not?

That has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not people are happy 
in their home land.