Nordic countries always dominate global happiness rankings. The reason why has nothing to do with the welfare state or hygge. (From 2021)
, the Finnish spiritual equivalent to hygge is something far less convivial and much more difficult to pronounce:, which translates as “pantsdrunk,” refers to the practice of binge drinking home alone in your underpants. If this is a secret to happy life, let’s keep it that way: a secret.Nobody is more skeptical than the Finns about the notion that we are the world’s happiest people. To be fair, this is hardly the only global ranking we’ve topped recently.
Asa correspondent for the Economist, when a Cabinet member of the Finnish government was introduced at an international conference as “the representative of the happiest country in the world,” he responded: “If that’s true, I’d hate to see the other nations.”Finland hasn’t always had such a blissed out international reputation.
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