Iceland and Denmark are very homogeneous, but very happy Qatar is extremely wealthy, but Weiner, at least, found it rather depressing. Contrary to expectations, neither greater social equality nor greater cultural diversity is associated with greater happiness. At his first stop, Rotterdam’s World Database of Happiness, Weiner is confronted with a few inconvenient truths. Now he’d travel to countries like Iceland, Bhutan, Qatar, Holland, Switzerland, Thailand and India to try to figure out why residents tell “positive psychology” researchers that they’re actually quite happy. I have nothing to lose”-Weiner set out on a yearlong quest to find the world’s “unheralded happy places.” Having worked for years as an NPR foreign correspondent, he’d gone to many obscure spots, but usually to report bad news or terrible tragedies. Fortified with Eeyoreish fatalism-“I’m already unhappy.
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