{"id":3381,"date":"2012-11-23T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T08:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2012-11-23T08:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T08:05:52","slug":"the-least-emotional-country-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"The least emotional country in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Singapore, where residents work the longest hours in the world, was also found to be the least emotional country.<\/p>\n

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Never mind its temperate 28C weather, low unemployment rate and high per-capita GDP \u2013 Singapore is the most emotionless society in the world, according to a new Gallup poll, beating the traditionally po-faced Georgia, Lithuania and Russia in a survey of more than 150 nations.<\/p>\n

Asking respondents questions such as “Did you feel well-rested yesterday?”, “Were you treated with respect all day yesterday?” and “Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?”, the survey found that Singaporeans were the least likely to reveal experiencing any emotions at all.<\/p>\n

Just 36% of Singaporeans reported feeling positive or negative emotions on a daily basis, while 60% of Filipinos recorded regularly feeling both \u2013 the highest response rate of any country worldwide.<\/p>\n

The poll’s findings \u2013 released on Wednesday \u2013 soon went viral on the internet, where they became the butt of many jokes, not least among Singaporeans themselves. “Singapore ranked most emotionless country in the world \u2013 not sure how to feel about that,” ran a number of Singapore-based tweets. “That

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