Mexicans Both Poorer and Happier Than Wealthy Nation Peers Lauren Villagran - The Christian Science Monitor
go to original May 30, 2013

Low wages, gaping income inequality, poor education, long workdays, shorter life expectancy. By the sound of the statistics, Mexicans’ satisfaction with their lot ought to be low.

But despite weak performance across rankings in the 2013 "Better Life" index released this week by the 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Mexicans come out strong in terms of satisfaction. They’re more satisfied with their lives than the average in the OECD – a collection of mostly wealthy nations – and fall just behind a handful of countries like Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark: 85 percent of Mexicans say they have more positive experiences than negative ones in a given day.

So what makes them so happy? Faith, family, and pride in the patria, or homeland, may have something to do with it.

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