Facts and figures reveal that even their high quality of living is unsuccessful in bringing elements of happiness and joy to them.
The people of France today are suffering from un air somber (gloom) syndrome instead of joie de vivre (joy of living), in which they were before enriched. There is no one from outside who could be blamed from their misery and distraught as revealed in a research by a French scholar, and going to be presented to the Royal Economic Society in London next month. The study declares French culture as the root cause of depression and sadness prevailing among its people and says that the culture teaches them so.
According to Paris School of Economics’ professor Claudia Senik, the culture is the biggest hindrance in the way of French to enjoy happy living in accordance to their material well being.
French are lucky to have an affluent life style, Senik says. It is a welfare state with free availability of amenities of life including healthcare and education. With a working week of 35-hour, it is a great source of attraction for foreigners who dream to get the French nationality.
Even with so many blessings, French appear solemn. According to a recent WIN-Gallup poll, they are least interested in life than the people of Afghanistan or Iraq.
Excluding Finland, France is the only old European country where people are more inclined towards suicide – World Health Organization states. After road accidents, suicide is the second major death cause in France among the 15-44 year age group, and the first one among 30-39 years age group.
“French Paradox” reflecting riches can’t bring happiness can be best described by “psychological belief being taught in schools or social gatherings etc, especially at teenage”, Senik remarks.
Her deep factual study over this life satisfaction issue ends up saying that on average French is less happy from his living than any of his European fellow. Senik’s critical analysis also reveals that the people of France residing outside the country are less joyous than their native fellows; however, foreign residents are enjoying much happier living than the natives. Those foreigners who are residing in the country since long are also not as happy as the new immigrants.
Senik believes that there is something wrong within the French people, which is adversely affecting the
French people’s living ideologies and making them undergo depressive tendencies.
In 1970′s, the same low level satisfaction issue was raised. The theory that language could be a major reason for all this go is discredited and discarded by Senik; on the ground that French-speakers in Canada or Switzerland are not suffering anything like this and are happy like others.
Senik is sure that the French educational system can play an active role in bringing a positive attitude change in the thinking patterns of people from childhood if French people are really sincere to get their happiness back. Senik suggests that happiness policies should be properly applied to cut down the over influence of cultural setups. Implementing this ideology through education will be the best idea.
However, Senik’s study has led to a turbulent debate over the blogging world where unavoidably her own country fellows are left with question marks after the work got published in the country’s official language. Majority of the French national found it as a further proof of their country’s downfall with one blogger commenting that he is much aware about various less enriched countries and their unhappy natives, but they don’t bother it at all, and the other one commented that in the majority of the underdeveloped countries, people are still living quite joyously. The habitual complaining attitude is indeed not an admired philosophy to live.
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