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  • I live in the USA, I would love to move to Canada. Everyone has guns and everyone is nice. The crime rate is so low its ridiculous. America's crime rate is really high.

  • 10 Weeks? It's only 5 weeks,

  • danes are happy becuse they are awesome!

  • Im from Denmark. I tell you why we are so happy. We are humble! and yea our system works :)

  • He's a total douche, but he's right.

  • You forgot the point where Danes pay up to 69% in income taxes to cover our health care and free educational system ^__^

  • The Danes are the happiest people on earth so it is just!

    But why?

    CAUSE THEY HAVE SO MUCH BACON!

  • Awkward "subtitles"...

  • Fri sprit !

  • Americans will never be happy because their policies only serve 1% of the population. Yet they actually believe they live in the land of the free. They probably ranked just ahead of China. People need to wake up.

  • @secerto .....Yeah. Well my opinion is that,.... you're just as much as a dumb Bitch like you're grandpa! >X))

  • We do have capitalism and free market (with regulations ofc.) in Scandinavia. But lobbyism/corruption is very limited and have great conditions and rights for workers and people in general. Can't see the bad thing about giving everybody a free university education and healthcare? :) I think we can learn alot from eachother, USA is a tremendous country

  • 10 weeks of vacation in Sweden? Damn I need to talk to my boss as I only get 5. And I live in Sweden. "10 weeks"... check your facts for fuck sake!

  • @niclaz79 Du ska ha 8 veckors betald semester. Annars följer inte ditt företag kollektivavtalen.

  • Denmark is 1st, Norway 2nd, Sweden 3rd, Australia 4th, Canada 5th, Finland 6th etc.

  • There was vikings in finland i live in the west-coast of finland and in my local museum there is all kind´s of old viking stuff and there are old viking graves too, now of course this dosent mean that finns where vikings no, but vikings came here and they died, död, død, failed invasion.

  • @Oozy9Millimeetah Failed invasion!!  Reed history! Sweden have Finland, Norway Balticstates, Big part of Germany, Denmark.

  • @Oozy9Millimeetah we didn't fail, we just decided finland wasn't worth the hassle

  • Finland, top three because of SAUNAS!

  • 1: Im from Denmark, Im happy

    2: I live very close to Sweden and my brothers girlfriend is from Norway. I love Scandinavia. But we still have something to learn.. Like everyone has

  • ...And they say that swedes are depressed and suicidal... pff...

    (that'd be lithuania by the way)

  • Stop those stupid subtitles that say "services" instead of "statistics" and a lot worse. We would be better off without them. About time Americans learned something about the rest of the world. And they even seem proud of their ignorance.

  • I like you man. You are about the only sane american i have ever seen.

    Greetings from sweden.

  • HAHAHA Finnish vikings? When did that ever happen?

  • This is like Ray William Johnson meets Ray William Johnson.

  • Sweden minus the immigrants. I'd say Sweden in the 1960's, but today it's definitely Norway.

    By the way, Finnish people can still be proud of Vikings because many of them are likely to have Swedish ancestry. Also, Finns sometimes joined the Vikings on the journeys south.

  • TIMES 1,5 for every hour. thats 80*1,5 = 120 hours or 3 weeks overtime... Fair enough

    And just so set everything straight: Denmark, Norway and Sweden had Vikings not Finland.

    Finally: For all anti american generalizing swedes "not all americans share the values of Bush" The americans living in the coast line states are actually quite similare to us.. You should all go to Northern California for a reality check

    #Piece

  • I live in sweden and have 6 weeks of payed vaycay... unfortunately I don't get paid for over time and ended up working 230 hours over time in 2011.. A very common form of employmeny agreement in sweden is "By law" 5 weeks but we recieve 5 extra days instead of payed overtime..

    Good thing that ATL "working hours code" says that you cannot work than more than 150 hours overtime so I ended up recieving extra payed vaycation for every hour I worked overtime above those 150 hours....

  • 5:00 to 5:13 was epic

  • 10 weeks!?!?!? no its 5 weeks in sweden

  • Denmark is great, been there it's nice.

  • What a surprise, fighting continues here... Cant you people just be proud of your own countries without badmouthing other countries?

  • IN sweden you don't even have to work, you just get contributions from the goverment, that¨s why the unemployment is so high here.

  • @Baxtexx This research was done to find out what makes people happy. Does it say anything about a correlation between unemployment and happiness? No. What we do know is that people are really unsatisfied and unhappy when they have no work. And where do the government get the money for the welfare-system if very few are working? Another thing, if you registered as unable to work for health reasons or something else,- you are not registered as unemployed.

  • @Baxtexx us has a higher unemployment rate than sweden - thats despite the fact that the us probably undercounts as it doesnt record long term unemployed properly. You need to understand that supply side factors are not the only causes of unemployment - demand side factors are also important - read some Keynes and get yourself educated on basic macroeconomics

  • @Baxtexx You mean the welfare? I'm currently unemployed and I live with my parents, I could get an apartment and money for it by the government. So yeah, it's possible to not have to work at all in Sweden, but it doesn't mean you will have money to do anything fun and in order to buy a new television you'd have to save up money for a couple of months, whereas if you had a job and that same studio apartment you could buy a new TV with the next paycheck.

  • @Baxtexx So it's very possible to live in Sweden and not have to work at all. (At least in Borlänge) Doesn't mean it's better. In fact, I'd rather work and have an actual paycheck so I can buy stuff instead of being concerned with my budget all the time. So I need to use that welfare money for food, hygiene products, bills, toilet paper et cetera and be happy about what little I have left and plan it out so I can manage until the next welfare can be applied for.

  • One of the things you can do better - stop being a buch of nobrainer religious fanatics. Would increase EVERYTHING. Except for maybe church values etc.

  • Finland Viking??? Thats SOOOO wrong! Only the Sweeds was the Vikings. Not Norway or Finland or Denmark. But we the Sweds have own the contrys of Norway to 1905 and Finland, the baltic states big part of poland, Denmark and half of Germany, the states of New York(US) Estern Canada. :) we was the strongest contrys in the world and the army was the best.

  • @pellenyberg @pellenyberg SSOO wrong dude, denmark was also a Viking. and norway.. why do you think its called a Dane axe?

    and you really should learn your history before saying dumb things. your are surely from sweden for you to say this.,.,

  • @pellenyberg Only the swedes were vikings? .... Where did you grow up? In a box? Theres a reason the vikings were also called the "Skandians" ... Hence Scandinavia.. Fail.

  • @usdfghk Yes we where! But i know my history pal, but you seems to know nothing. Have a nice day:)

  • @pellenyberg I have no idea where you get this from, but the original vikings were danish, and they set out on their very first raid from Roskilde in DENMARK. NOT Sweden... this is DOCUMENTED knowledge.

  • @usdfghk Denmark Vikings!????? Yyeeeeaa RIGHT.

  • @pellenyberg

    Are you fucking kidding me? I thought pressing the button to turn on the power on your computer required a minimum IQ of 20.

    You could have at least researched basic history before mouthing off on the Internet, you atavistic, slope-browed Neanderthal fuck. It doesn't require much research - Google Jellingstenen or Guldhornene and find out just why you should do the world a favor and give yourself a shotgun blowjob, you fucking waste of skin.

  • @LoliBMovie REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDE History fuckbreth.

  • @LoliBMovie Dumm jävel. Läs HISTORIA innan du öppna käften. Vilken dum liten råtta du är.

  • @usdfghk

    Roskilde is just a piece of occupied swedish territory ;)

  • America.

  • Ha du spätt ut våra Crunchos?

  • i live in sweden and i only have 4 weeks and i work 40 hours a week.

  • @maxarstockholm

    Dun know where you work etc. But as far as I know, you are entitled 5 weeks vacation, by law(in sweden). There are however some that have more vacation then 5 weeks. Working for the government (Statsanställd, typ Banverket eller Kronan) will grant you up to 7 weeks. Working for a county (landstings anställd) will give you somewhat over 6 weeks after reaching 40 years of age.

    But by law, 5 weeks.

  • @maxarstockholm How about christmas, other holidays and "klämdagar"? There's more than just the weeks in summer.

  • AAAHH YES! YES! THANK YOU O' ANCHORMANGUY FOR PUTTING THESE THOUGHTS INTO WORDS!

  • haha Ofc, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and iceland are the best. True vikings ;)

  • Yay. Go, Denmark!

  • So what if they call my country socialist (which is factually incorrect by the way, we have a center-right wing government at the moment), I don't care, I'm relatively happy with the way Holland is run, save for some hickups.

  • America is a very discontented country. We complain about ourselves as a country all the time, claim to be patriotic, and fail to criticize ourselves as an individual.(and tell ourselves what we need to do to make things better.)

  • Im a swed and i wouldnt change it for any other country.. and yeah finland vikings ? haha are greeks africans to ?

  • @PureVikingPower HAHA ;) den var rolig!

  • @PureVikingPower Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Scandinavia FTW, they're all good. I live in Norway, and wouldn't change it for anything, but Sweden or Denmark, does not sound bat at all, as we share alot of the common values, that makes our countries so great :D Scandinavia<3

  • 2:36 10 paid weeks of vacation?  I doubt that is correct.

  • @GladiatorGT Its called google, use it.

  • you can smoke pot legally, in the Netherlands..

    :D

  • Danish people are so happy

    yet, they seem to smile less than most of the world lmfao

    I think Danish people just lie in the survey's so people don't catch on about their depression

    it is an overcomepsnation method

  • @GermansMustDie you don't have to smile to be happy. I don't smile alot but I'm very happy ;)

  • @GermansMustDie haha!

  • im from the nederlands :D and i love it

  • tell me the methods which you were measuring in happiness

  • Denmark is not a socialist country, it's social democrat (which for right wing Americans I suppose it's the same as Socialism.

  • I understand that it snows. I'm not going there.

  • Every nation on earth is equal happy and sad

  • @mundamahi420 No, they're not.

  • This research should call ; mad tea party research

  • I'm going to denmark and finland next year

    And i already live in holland

    ill see what happens :D

  • Im Swedish. 10 weeks?? thats bullshit. we get 5

  • @MrFelixify

    True, but I think they set what they call a "working week" is differently.

    If you have a 43h-45h week as the "standard" then we get about additional day off per working week when you compair that to a standard Swedish workingh week. If you see that as a holiday than that totals 10 weeks (a 5 working days). If we have 1/2 a day "off" per "international working week" than that will totals 5 weeks holidays which you then combine with 5 weeks actual holidays. OK?

  • @Draugh39 Yeah, that actually makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up for me. :)

  • We could even build up a world in which every men has to work only 4 hours and all get as much as they want... With an libertarian-democratic Socialism and a decentralistic planned economy with socialized banks and monopolistic groups on one side and the end of exploitation of men by men. We can make a world in which everyone is happy.

    We only need to believe in a better world and do as much as we can.

    Freedom, Democracy AND Equality are no oppositions, they are one! - Socialism...

  • 10 Weeks?! Stupid American as ALWAYS!

  • I think we (Americans) would be happier if we would tax the really wealthy,,,less police,,less immigration (we let in 1 million each year)....free health insurance and education.....less militarism....our GDP per capita is 7th highest, yet we are not in the top 10 happiest!!!!!

  • @MrBobbi1980 I belive the major diffrence is that we in Europe in general tax consumption.

    You cant take from the rich and give it to the poor cuse that wont create jobs, instead we take alittle more from the rich and instead tax on consumption.

    So the more you buy the more money the state gets.

    I belive our consumption tax is around 25%.

    So yeah in a way we do tax the rich but not in a hurtfull way.

  • @SpisadKoTunga your income tax is 59%, ours is 35% max only people making more than $250,000 per year pay anything close to this,,,,people that make $100,000 only pay around 22%, I know in countries like Netherlands and Germany this is considered a huge wage and taxes are paid around 35-40% or more,,,I think people making $100,000 should pay around 30% or more.....also, in the USA people like Warren Buffett...pay only 21%....he made $1,000,000,000 last year alone!!!!!!!

  • @SpisadKoTunga Don't know if the rich people are the ones creating jobs. What I understand is that the small businesses is the core of a nations economy.

  • Sorry but Costa Rica is the happiest country in the world. Sorry scandinavian fellows

  • We swedes dont get 10 weeks, "only" 5 weeks.

  • @rotvold Depends on what work you've got, i think he is talking about the average :)

  • @rotvold Don't forget to count the two weeks over christmas, other holidays and such. I do believe that the hours adds up. You can also save one week per year for up to five years, giving you five extra weeks on top of the ordinary weeks for that fifth year. Most of us just take out everything we can every year tho'. More fun to burn than to save, as always. ^_^

  • @Gaybashingfudgepackr

    You might be right about the "holiday vacation", it might have been added, since not all have the same holidays and not all are free those days. But being able to save up 40 days doesnt give you more vaccation in average, its just moves the weeks around, doesnt it? :P

  • @perkalov True. The "save" part was just an addition. Thought I might as well just throw it in when we were on the subject. :)

  • @rotvold ehrm... No Sweden do get 10 weeks of paid vacation...

  • @Shieetunge

    How do you figure that? I don't automaticly doubt you, but I fail to understand the math. We do have 5 weeks by law, where does the last 5 weeks come from? Holidays?

  • @perkalov This is how I know, Both my partents have 10 weeks of paid vacation...

  • @Shieetunge

    Yes, that might be, and we got ppl lifting social service cash all of the year, so by that logic we actually got 52 week of vacation. 10 week paid vacation is not the common standard, that much I do know :P Your parents are 2 ppl, hardly representative for 8.500.000 ppl

  • @rotvold dont we get 6 or 7 weeks?

  • Your numbers are WRONG> There are 4.3 Million muslims in Germany. In Russia, 6% are Muslim, not the 1 in 5 you claim. For Belgium, its 6% of the population are Muslim.

    What part your ass are you pulling your stats from?

  • If Scandinavia didnt have any snow/winter at all, we would be fucking orgasmic

  • On another note I wonder what the heck kind off values these republicans grew up with? Because I grew up with stories like you know of a Dickensian nature. The rich and capitalist were never the heroes in any of the stories I grew up with. What kind of fucked up Christmas stories did they grew up with?

  • Long live Finland. We are a very very happy country.

  • @infantriepatronel You just never look it.

  • @infantriepatronel

    Especially if you beat Sweden in hockey, right? :-)

    However, just think of what kind of team we could get together if we combined our Swedish and Finnish players. Think we'll give Russia a good game?

    

  • @infantriepatronel Sure ya are, ya got The Dudesons :P

  • @infantriepatronel YAY. Perskuta :P

  • @infantriepatronel thought Finland had one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

  • Go Denmark!

  • gotto be born in sweden....

  • 10 payed vacation weeks in Sweden!?! Ehh, no I don´t think so. The king may get that :) 5 - 6 is normal

  • The subtitles are way off........... lol

  • wtf.....!

    

  • Of course Denmark and Finland are happy. Vikings thrive off of fire, blood and misery :) Lols JK I love Scandinavia!

  • @SirDanOfHell None of the vikings came from Finland.

  • @ivixeg .... quite right, my bad :P

  • @ivixeg I doubt that the vikings and the finns didnt meet up once in awhile.

  • @SirDanOfHell

    MOST ANTI ISRAELI COUNRY IN EUROPE

    Swedish investigation into the country's 1st suicide bombing (Dec. 11, '10) found the bomb car which exploded during a shopping rush in heart of Stockholm was part of well-planned, SOPHISTICATED MUSLIM TERROR OPERATION, prepared in advance to inflict a large number of casualties. Swedish media reported Iraqi-born Taimour al-Abdaly was loaded with 3 sets of bombs, one with a dozen miniature pipe bombs strung together as a belt

  • @Zabaloola WTF dude, we're trying to show off how much we like blood and violence.Take your racist, fear-mongering nonsense and piss off.

  • @SirDanOfHell - Socialistic Europe is crumbling -Indigenous Europeans are aging -Muslim Europeans are multiplying & not assimilating -In fact they become ever more religious -Piccadilly Circus looks like Beirut -The European multiculturalism experiment failed BIG TIME -%40 of British born Muslim youth want Sharia Law -Europe is a sagging continent -Far right & left parties are headed for a clash -Nationalism + Socialism = Nazism -Scary, scary...
  • @SirDanOfHell

    -UK homegrown cleric loathes the UK

    -Leading preacher of hardline ISLAMIC sect which controls 1/2 of UK mosques delivers messages filled with anger at NON-MUSLIMS

    -Clear voice has a mesmeric quality & as he recites verses of the Koran in Arabic they gain a hypnotic, captivating beauty

    -Then Riyadh ul Haq translates it to English & delivers his own interpretation of the holy text & what sounded so lyrical becomes a stark manifesto of separationist loathing

  • @SirDanOfHell

    -The idea of US disengagement from Islamist Jihad by appeasing Bin Laden's Middle Eastern policy is contradicted by the extreme Islamist hatred of US culture & the fact that Islamist fury is targeted at Europe as well despite European governments intense pro- Palestinian & pro Arab policies

    -Bin Laden's concerns with Saudi Arabia & driving the West out of the Middle East - Only the tip of the sword of a much larger & growing Islamist insurgency that seeks to destroy the West

  • @SirDanOfHell

    The situation within the United Kingdom is not much different. In the last 30 years, the Muslim population there has climbed from 82,000 to 2.5 million. Presently, there are over 1000 mosques throughout Great Britain-many of which were converted from churches

    In Belgium, 50% of all newborns are Muslims & reportedly its Islamic population hovers around 25%. A similar statistic holds true for The Netherlands

    Same in Russia where one in five inhabitants is a Muslim

  • @SirDanOfHell

    -Islam is a monolithic religion

    -Abide by Allah & his Messenger or expect death

    -This is why decent Muslims refrain from expressing their disapproval of current Islamic dogma

    -This is also why 1.6 billion people nestling on most of the world's richest oil fields harbor inconceivable poverty, fanaticism, ignorance & strife

    -Only 2 Nobel Prize for science or medicine

    -Almost no Muslim research published in the world's leading scientific & medical journals & magazines

  • @SirDanOfHell Fertility rate in FRANCE: - Muslim: 8.1 -Christian: 1.8 -%30 of children age 20 & younger are Muslims . %45 In larger cities like Paris, Niece & Marseille -By 2027-1 of 5 Frenchmen will be Muslim -In 35 yeas France will be an Islamic Republic Southern France-more Mosques than Churches In UK: -82,000 to 2.5 million Muslims in 30 years (30 fold increase) -Over 1000 Mosques NETHERLANDS: -%50 of all newly born are Muslims -In 15 years 1/2 of the Netherlands will be Muslim
  • @Zabaloola FOr the Netherlands, the current population (2010 est) is 900,000 or 5.5%, with it predicted to go to only 7.8% or under 1.4 Million by 2030. Your claim of 50% of Holland being Muslim in 15 years is laughable at best.

    The only number you got right is the current Muslim population in the UK.

    Would also like to see the link showing 50% of births in Belgium & Holland being Muslim. More b.s.

  • @SirDanOfHell GERMANY: -Currently 52 million Muslims -German government predicts 104 Million Muslims in 20 years RUSSIA: -23 million Muslims - %40 of Russian army will consist of Muslims in a few short years BELGIUM: -%25-are Muslim -%50 of all new born are Muslims Belgium government stats- 1/3 of all babies in Europe Muslim by 2025 GERMAN Gov.: "The fall of the German population can no longer be stopped. Its a download spiral is no longer reversible. It will be a Muslim state by 2050"
  • @SirDanOfHell Finland? Vikings? LOLOLOLOL

  • @SirDanOfHell lol

  • @SirDanOfHell finlanders isn't vikings

  • anywhere with legal weed

  • My point is: We could not have had a socialized health care system if the US did not have a free market based one.

    Thanks to innovation (mostly by businesses that seek a profit) health care was improving and cheap, and we had the funds to import it. Now that the US is destroying its free market based health care everything goes up in price.

    We are now forced to implement some market forces to keep the costs in check. This creates expected problems like fraud.

  • He makes some good points here but he does not understand that my country (The Netherlands) can pay for their socialized health care because of free market capitalism. Our exports are insane for such a small country. We got a free ride because of innovation in health care in the US.Now that the US is wrecking their health care system, it is getting painfully obvious that we can't afford our health care system anymore. Introducing a socialized health care in the US would only drive up the costs.

  • are you mad? read a book!!!

  • panther capitalism...nice

  • fuck off back to your muslim, backward, third world Turkey...

  • noone has airconditioning in northern europe... just build better houses

  • Socialism is for pussies.

  • @432ps1 and capitalism for soziopaths. So?

  • @baronsengir187 LOL. Viva Fidel!!! LOL

  • subtitles are fucked up, saying other things then are actually spoken

  • Ok so I feel that I have to say this... I live in Sweden and except for all the good reason why we are so happy, that he mentioned, there are a couple more. First of - we have absolutely beutiful women and we have a thing called snus. And snus is actually a kind dip whitch tastes wonderful and can consumed by left-wing people to.

    We are allso vikings who gave name to the "minesota vikings" and we allso have Peter Forsberg

  • Yes, scandinavians are happy market-socialists. BUT, you pay 50% taxes over here that would unacceptable in the US ec.

  • @tyskbulle You sure you even live in Sweden? The tax is completetly depending on what you get paid.

  • @HanssonQQ Last time i checked, yes. They cut around 30% of your income, and 20% of purchases, thats half for the average swede and im trying on a generalsation here.

  • @tyskbulle First of all, the income tax is progressive. And WTF is that 20% + 30 % = 50 % ??? Cigarette prices are 50% tax here, so does that mean that the rest of someones money is spent on cigarettes.

    In Scandinavia we have the best health care systems in the world, for free. And free libraries, free education (elementary school, jr. and sr. high school, vocational school, university of applied sciences, university, all free, and the first four with free food).

  • @IronHorse4642 "Arbetsgivaravgiften" pays on average for mid income 50% of your paycheck as taxes. Then you have "Kommunalskatt" thats around 30%. Last but not least you have "Moms" on all purchases thats on 25%. So if you start whit 15 000kr, after taxes you have 7 000kr. And on that you pay 1 400kr on moms. You end up whit 5600kr in the end and thats around 63% taxes. So to correct myself. 63%.

  • @tyskbulle Arbetsgivaravgiften (which is a tax on employers, not employees) is 30% of the income, and pays for things that in many countries would be something either you or your employer pay for regardless, your pension and health insurance are the two major parts of the 30%. It also pays for parental leave insurance, unemployment insurance, workers compensation insurance, etc.

  • @tyskbulle Also, while the nominal kommunalskatt tax rate is around 30% (it varies slightly between the 290 communes of Sweden), if you only earn 15000 SEK/month (a very low salary in Sweden), you actually only pay 2826 SEK/month, or 18.84% if the nominal rate is 30%.

    On income over 383 000 SEK/year, you also pay 20% state tax and on income above 548 300 SEK/year you pay an additional 5% state tax. To even approach the nominal tax rates however you have to earn a shitload of money.

  • @zxccvbnnnmasfdkjhjky Don't forget the "arbetsdgivar avgiften", dont remember the percentage of that one, but what I remember it was quite a lot.

  • @IronHorse4642 Not free ofcourse, but paid by taxes so that everyone can enjoy a healthy life and a good education. Creating a more equal society with chances for every body. The filosofy is that everyone gets the best chance to have a happy life, not a welthy life. I love this system, I dont need 1000000000 dollars a year. Hooray for every country that tries to make its inhabitants happ