According to an opinion poll, China people are the happiest people in the world?

According to the Global Times, recently, the polling agency Ipsos (France) released the 2023 Global Happiness Survey, and the results showed that 73% of the people in the world said they were happy now.

The survey covered 32 countries and regions from February 22, 2022 to October 6, 2023/kloc-0. The happiness index of each country increased by 6% year-on-year, which was 10 percentage point higher than that in August 2020 after the epidemic began. This is the second consecutive year that global happiness has risen.

In all countries and regions, China has the highest happiness index! 9 1% said "very or quite happy"; Hungary has the lowest happiness index, only 50%. South Korea, the penultimate country, accounts for 57%.

However, from the comments of netizens in China on the Internet, we can see that many people say "I am among the 9%"-is the survey conducted by such a world-renowned polling agency so inconsistent with the reality in China? Obviously not!

I believe that as a French polling agency, they haven't had the natural impulse and credible motivation to fake it to praise China. Therefore, the author is still "not afraid to guess with the best goodwill", in general.

1. The investigation time is "February 22, 2022+February 22, 2023 +20231October 6"-at this time, after the release of the China epidemic, compared with the previous three years, I believe that the happiness of Chinese people will inevitably double at this time, which cannot be ignored!

In fact, only from this point can we know why people feel happy-all the feelings of happiness or pain in the world are actually caused by comparison!

If there is no reference for comparison, just as we can't find the movement of an object, there will be no relative increase or decrease, rise or fall, more or less, strong or weak, positive or negative, existence or non-existence ... So, we can't find or feel whether we are happier or more miserable.

So, why is China's happiness index the highest in the world? -in fact, this is the feeling of comparison!

Comparison includes vertical comparison and horizontal comparison, that is, there are two major comparison directions: comparison with others and comparison with one's own past. Compared with others, we can compare our sense of superiority, self-esteem and pride, but the real and deeper happiness mainly comes from the comparison with our past.

This is also the reason why South Korea, which is recognized as a developed country, is the second lowest in happiness-not because of their underdeveloped economy, but because they have a greater sense of gap than they used to be, while the extremely poor African countries in the world still have higher happiness than South Korea.

For example, when you have a million dollars, do you feel happier than a billionaire? Or are you happier and more fulfilled than when you used to be a poor boy and now earn 100 thousand a year? Obviously it is the latter, but when comparing with your past, you should have a stronger, truer and more intimate sense of happiness!

As China people, if we compare with other countries, our economic strength is now called "the second in the world". Although this is only a symbolic symbol, it still shows that China is entering a middle-income country. Then, compared with many countries that are still in poverty in the world, China people's happiness is higher than theirs, not to mention-and this is only a materialistic comparison.

In fact, the acquisition of happiness is not only material satisfaction, but also higher-level enrichment, such as happiness in the spiritual field such as education, culture and the realization of life value. It is the element and connotation of happiness that a person still needs to pursue after realizing the relative satisfaction of material life.

Today's China people can be said to have the opportunity to receive education since childhood, and the enrichment and improvement of knowledge has also filled the connotation of happiness of China people-if we still stay in the initial material satisfaction of most people as happiness, we can only say that our happiness index is too single, which is not a real sense of happiness in life, and it can only be said that this is the most basic first step to satisfy happiness in life.

But the happiness index of China people will be higher than that of poorer countries, but why is it higher than that of developed countries? -The factors here are also very complicated.

For example, people in developed countries have different elements from people in China in the pursuit of spiritual connotation. For example, people in western developed countries pursue individuality and personal freedom more-their cultural thought of "give me liberty or give me death" is different from that of China, while people in China pay more attention to collectivism and are relatively willing to sacrifice personal freedom.

Therefore, there are many differences in the feelings and experiences of happiness pursued in the material or spiritual fields between China and the West. Therefore, it is hard to say that a high happiness index of China people necessarily means a decline in happiness index of westerners, which means that others must live worse than us.

The most intimate experience of happiness comes from self-comparison. For example, compared with the old society, the new China has obviously undergone great changes only in material life. Even if today's young people have no personal experience, they can find comparative coordinates and references from the older generation and unchangeable history-"I am more surprised than not knowing." Through this comparison, we can know how amazing the development of China is today, and how happy people are compared with themselves in the past!

At the same time, with the advancement of China's construction in the field of spiritual civilization, the improvement and enrichment of our spiritual level, such as the sense of security, the sense of personal value realization and the sense of meaning pursued in life, are believed to be important factors for the continuous improvement of China people's happiness-compared with the frequent shootings in the United States, we will be confiscated here and punished with slingshots. How strong this sense of security is!

In addition, it is precisely because of the growing strength of the motherland that China has been in a peaceful period without war for decades, which is also an important prerequisite and main factor to ensure people's sense of security and happiness.

Of course, people's desires can never be satisfied-unless they die. Therefore, when each of us has to face the setbacks and difficulties that everyone will encounter in life, such as study pressure, work pressure, mortgage pressure, marriage pressure and so on. Happiness often gives way to a stronger sense of "pain"-in fact, when people forget to compare with others and themselves, they are more likely to feel "I am the other 9% of China".

If you don't believe me, emigrate to poor African countries, or try living in Ukraine, Syria and Myanmar!