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The WHO did a 2018 happiness index report. To no surprise, the top three were Finland, Norway, and Denmark.

A close 4th was Iceland, while Switzerland and Sweden were close to the top, followed by several Pacific Asian countries after that including Singapore and Japan.
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Insomniac100 Best Comment
The USA is honestly really outdated in terms of business models and work hours compared to other first world countries. Also, people seem to be more glued to instant gratification and superficial things for whatever reason. Add the fact that everyone fucking hates each other because people get so emotionally invested politically nowadays, it’s no fucking wonder we are not on the list
TheProphet · M
@Insomniac100 The US is the only first world country.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@TheProphet Ohhhhhh boy...what hole did you crawl out of.

Alright, let's start with the origins. The terms First, Second, and Third World, at the time of their conception, referred to nations allied with NATO, the Eastern Bloc, or neither, respectively. So to say that America is "the only First World country" would mean that the entire rest of NATO does not exist.

Since the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the terms have been repurposed to refer to how modernized and developed a country is. In which case, America would be at best Second World, perhaps even Third World when you get outside the urbanized areas.

No matter how you slice it, America is not, and has never been, "the only First World country." You just made that up right now.
@TheProphet where is your factual evidence besides your blinding nationalism?
@BlueMetalChick Rich with nothing to worry about but he's totally ignorant as if he never went to school at all.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Insomniac100 *Ann Coulter voice* Why? Because America!
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Pitchblue Sounds like a silver suppository to me.
@BlueMetalChick i can’t stand her
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Insomniac100 She self-admitted to being drunk the majority of the time she's on air, which explains a lot. Piers Morgan asked her if she thinks liquor should be legal even though she believes marijuana should not be, and she says "Yeah, of course, I drink a lot. I'm drunk right now." She went on to praise cigarettes, saying that it's good to smoke tobacco because it's a stimulant, you'll work harder than then die at age 50 and be less of a burden to taxpayers. I shit you not, she said this on national television.
Ann is such an angry beotch.
@BlueMetalChick she also supports various white supremacist viewpoints and consistently says dumb shit on twitter or on live tv. My version of hell would be being locked in a room with Nancy grace and Ann Coulter talking non stop
@BlueMetalChick All of the far right like Colter are such massive hypocrites.
@Insomniac100 Oh My God you hit on my most hated person on TV Nancy Grace, living off of the death and misery of people.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Insomniac100 LMAO fuckin' Nancy Grace 😂
@BlueMetalChick Remember the overweight actress who they followed relentlessly until she died and then there was the "Body Shot" that Nancy played for months. Some kid dies and she keeps on on TV for months but she's got the balls to talk about her twins. 😡🤢🤢
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Pitchblue And yet she ignored it when the US air force killed an eight year old American girl in Yemen.