There is a story about Filipina women’s
crazy happiness-expressed behavior in weekend in Hong Kong at the beginning of
the chapter. Hong Kong is a stressful city.
Inflation is high and most of people can
only earn a living by the limited income. This is especially true for young
people who didn’t have a brilliant education background. Young people complain
that Hong Kong government encourages them to back to school and equip
themselves. It runs a lot “Further study programs” but it didn’t promote these
programs to the job market. Young people make a loan to register for those
programs but for often, employer do even heard of the programs and recognize
those certificates. They can only make a living. Marriage and buying house
seems impossible for them.
Wealth represents there are a lot competence
in the society which is one source of happiness of people. The writer expresses
happiness as subjective well-being(SWB). The emotion of happiness is
subjective. It depends on how much you satisfy your life. Look through the
research about index of happiness, you can find that the happiest countries in
the world are usually relatively small and poor. “Even when people of different
ethnic origins share the same environment, they do not become equally happy,
and some old differences remain for some time” Quoted from P278. It also
specifies that for people with different ethnic and culture background. The
level of happiness they feel can be different. Many people claimed that they
would like to move the certain countries after retired because that country is
happy. It could help a little bit but for more, it is up to you.
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