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Singapore is known for its thriving economy, its ceaseless construction, and its innovative restaurants and shops. The small southeast Asian city-state has one of the lowest unemployment rates and one of the highest rates of GDP per capita in the world.
So how does such a tiny countrywhich is only about 276 square miles with just over 5 million residentscontinue to develop so rapidly?
Perhaps its because its residents lack volatile emotions. A new Gallup study showed that Singaporeans are the least emotional people in the world.
In a recent survey, Gallup measured the emotions of people in more than 150 countries and regions by asking whether they experience five positive emotions (feeling well-rested, being treated with respect, enjoyment, smiling and laughing, learning or doing something interesting) and five negative emotions (anger, stress, sadness, physical pain, worry) on a daily basis.
Only 36 percent of Singaporeans reported feeling any emotions (either positive or negative) on a daily basisthe lowest percentage in the world. The republic of Georgia and Lithuania fell right behind Singapore as the least emotional countries in the world, with only 37 percent of their populations reporting feeling any emotions.
On the other side of the spectrum, 60 percent of Filipinos reported feeling positive or negative emotions daily, making the Philippines the most emotional country surveyed.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/singapore-lacks-emotions-2012-12
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Panasonic
(2,921 posts)Is it as big as Manhattan?
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)710 square kilometers compared with Manhattan at 59.5 square kilometers.
5,312,400 population compare with Manhattan at 1,601,948.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan
virgogal
(10,178 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Doesn't mean that they don't have a rich internal emotional life.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,341 posts)"Disneyland with the death penalty."