Is it desperation or lack of sunshine? What do people in the UK have to be desperate about more than other places (like the Ukraine or some places in Africa)?
No it's not just about the climate, as the map indeed shows. Anyway, lots of people like the British weather. It's something more than that.
I have a theory, but people will assume that I am saying Britain is crap and the rest of the world isn't, which is not the case.
Considering all the poverty in the world, the British are very lucky as such, but it isn't
just about wealth. There are plenty of very poor places in the southern Mediterranean for example, but the standard of life is better,
as a rule (in my opinion). Far more family orientated for one thing, with support, both financial and physically, from a large number of close-by relatives.
Their climate
is also a big part of making them happier than they would otherwise be of course, but that wouldn't explain why people from Scandinavian countries seem to be happier and certainly less 'angry'.
This is
my theory as to why, in Britain, you get hordes of drunks roaming the streets at the weekend, fighting, throwing up, vandalising things etc- it's because for some reason we're more 'angry' with life than people in lots of other countries, or certainly show the anger more, let's put it that way.
As for the religion side of it, I think the more happy/wealthy people are in life the less they need an 'afterlife' -which might explain Spain's statistics.
Let's face it, most people only pray to God when something goes wrong anyway. A bit like when I used to see a copper when I was driving and pray that he wouldn't find out that I'd got no car tax. Or mot. Or insurance.
