{"id":1502,"date":"2013-01-14T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2013-01-13T05:36:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T05:36:30","slug":"the-worlds-most-emotional-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/the-worlds-most-emotional-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most Emotional Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on, among other things, their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2012\/11\/28\/a-color-coded-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-emotional-countries\/?hpid=z7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">daily emotional experience<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Singapore is the least emotional country in the world.\u00a0\u201dSingaporeans recognize they have a problem,\u201d Bloomberg Businessweek writes of the country\u2019s \u201cemotional deficit,\u201d citing a culture in which schools \u201cdiscourage students from thinking of themselves as individuals.\u201d They also point to low work satisfaction, competitiveness, and the urban experience: \u201cStaying emotionally neutral could be a way of coping with the stress of urban life in a place where 82 percent of the population lives in government-built housing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines is the world\u2019s most emotional country. It\u2019s not even close; the heavily Catholic, Southeast Asian nation, a former colony of Spain and the U.S., scores well above second-ranked El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>People in the Americas are just exuberant.\u00a0Every nation on the North and South American continents ranked highly on the survey. Americans and Canadians are both among the 15 most emotional countries in the world, as well as ten Latin countries. The only non-American countries in the top 15, other than the Philippines, are the Arab nations of Oman and Bahrain, both of which rank very highly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on, among other things, their daily emotional experience: Singapore is the least emotional country in the world.\u00a0\u201dSingaporeans recognize they have a problem,\u201d Bloomberg Businessweek writes of the country\u2019s \u201cemotional deficit,\u201d citing a culture in which schools \u201cdiscourage students from thinking of 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