Indian Youth Are The Happiest In The World!
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Indians are amongst the happiest and most religious young people on the planet today, the world’s first 24-hour music channel has declared in its biggest study of the all new MTV generation.
MTV Networks International’s (MTVNI) Well being Index found that nearly 60% of Indian 16- to 34-year olds are both religious and happy, in line with the happy, well-adjusted attitudes evinced by the world leaders on the youthful joy scale, Argentineans, Mexicans and Indonesians. Seventy per cent of Argentina’s 16- to 34-year-olds and 80% of eight-15 year-old Mexicans said they were happy. On the other hand, fewer than 30% in the US and 50% in the UK accepted that they are happy.
The 14 countries included in the survey were: Argentina, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan , Mexico, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and the US. The strongly happy vibes in the developing world are laid low by the developed, said Saxton, leaving the channel that once bore the cheery slogan “MTV enjoy” with the dismal realisation that less than half of the world’s youth are at all happy with their lives.
MTVNI’s Youth Trends expert Andrew Davidson said the shining picture of happy youngsters in the developing world underlined the truth of the cliché that “money can’t buy happiness. This is about perceived well being and it shows that even if your country is regarded as undeveloped according to UN indicators, you might still regard yourself as happier than someone in the developed world.”
The MTVNI index found the highly economically developed and well provided Japanese young utterly miserable with only 8% claiming to be happy and a whopping 76% admitting to no religious compass at all.
Graham Saxton, senior vice-president, MTVNI research, said the six-month survey of more than 5,400 youth in 14 countries, illustrated the happiness divide that marks the planet’s young.
A full 93 per cent of Indians said their parents helped them out in life, thus contributing to their sense of well-being in a culture where family time is prioritised, divorce rates low and closeness extends beyond the nuclear family. But in rich Japan, just 54% of the young cited the happy, healthful hand of family as a factor in their lives. Davidson explained that youth in the developed world appeared to be exceedingly anxious about the competition they face in a fast globalising world, notably the growth of new economic powerhouses India and China.
A significant 84% of young Chinese told MTV that they expected their lives to be more enjoyable in the future. One of the more surprising findings, said Davidson, was “the huge difference between countries, it’s just not true that kids all over the world are becoming the same.
You can shop in Mumbai stores that are similar to those in London and you can consume the same sort of music and TV, but you still have very different ideas and ways of looking at the world”.
MTVNI, which launched in India and other territories in the mid-80s on a strongly localised agenda, said the vibrant diversity of the planet’s youth merely vindicated its original strategy just months after its 25th birthday.PrintShare it! — Rate it: up down flag this hub
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Too bad the Philippines was not included in their list. I would have love to see the results. ~~lol (^^,)
Maybe they are just catching up with the 60's and 70's USA (before it turned evil like in jewish)
The survey is really correct. I wish the senario will continue forever.
Sorry to throw a wet blanket on this 'happy' story....but are we just talking about the relatively well-off Indians that we see in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore? I don't think many rural youngsters or the kids from the slums have much to be happy about and the growing crime rate among youngsters in the big cities points to a not-so-happy-go-lucky scenario.
i think we r always good at beginning,but we need to improve it by making poor to be a part of it
Socyberty > Education Is the Education System of India Right?
by AKSHAY RATHORE, May 16, 2009
Well these is a view point that Indian education system needs a change.
Hope, every one is born in these world with a dream & every young child has a hope a hope to be some thing in life few wants to be an doctor, few engineer, few scientist & few pilot , wow what a feeling that is! small kids when grow up a shining face they go to school with a hope that education will full fill there dreams & suddenly after few years all the dreams are crushed! Few of them commit suicide! Why just because the person who should be a doctor he is a manager in a small company & who wanted to be a manager is dead now just because he could not get job, but why? His marks were not good. I know you will think I am mad so it's up to you to decide that. Well there are many students with different goal in life & very less of them get success we said just because he is working hard or good in studies so?? Only good marks are important?? What about the talent of a student?? Well a human being is known by the brain he has not by his 99.99% on mark's sheet but in India? Three hours of exam decides the career of a student! Well is the career of a student a joke that you will decide the career of a student in those three hours?? No that is wrong! for example a student wants to be a doctor so he is good in science & maths but week in S.S.T & in 10Th boards his result is bad just because of S.S.T & minimum% required for science is 75% but he gets 65% so sad now what will that student do? Suicide, no not at all than what will student opt for commerce, but that's not his talent but still he doesn't gets what he wants but he has to study what he don't want to study in 10Th yes if he is week in SST he knows that if he wont score in SST& scores in science but he needs total 75% he does every thing & at last he even forgets science not because he is dumb just because the system is bad. So what's the solution? Let students work hard & if they don't get success beat them? Or pressurise them? But if you think these is the way than you are a fool!! think what is going in his/her heart , what's the emotional condition he/she is facing even they want to be some thing in life & they care for there dreams more than there parents & education system than who the hell is education system to tell a student to opt science or commerce or arts , it's the student who knows what's good for him/her not any one else example a pilot can't be a army officer nor an army officer can be a pilot they have different talents .So why not change our education system But how? I will tell you a student who wants to be a doctor needs science but that student is reading SST in 10Th but will SST help him in medical? no ,than lets make a change a student will decide his/her career in 10Th without any boards you give your exams in school of 9Th class & enters 10Th now the change is that you select that you want science arts ,commerce your wish! & you read that in 10Th only your subject & there will be some additional course like robotics in (detailed),if any one is interested in politics or defence he/she may have a course in 10Th & than you will have to appear for exams in school only the 10Th that was suppose to be a board exam& than you will study in detail in 11Th class & than in 12Th you will study you will have a revision & few additional knowledge about your favourite subject & than you will appear for boards only 1 board that's of your favourite subject in 12Th ,hope these may reduce pressure from youngsters.
WELL THESE IS NOT AN ARTICLE THESE IS MY VIEW POINT & I AM VERY STRICT AT MY WORDS I AM 16 NOW BUT HEN I TURN 21 I WOULD STAND IN POLITICS & WILL MAKE CHANGES & ONE OF THE CHANGE I HAVE PRESENTED HERE
bluewings says:
3 years ago
Now that it's official no one will bug me for laughing too much ,lol.I am a happy go lucky character and can't stop laughing.Why change :-P I hope the MTV research wasn't conducted by a team comprising only of Indians ,lolJust kidding.