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"A mother cycles determinedly through the drizzle while her togged-up toddler
sits on the crossbar squinting in the rain. The sky is black and the cycle
lanes are busy. An onlooking American tourist asks no one in particular what it
would take for Amsterdammers to leave their bikes at home.
Riding through the rain is a rite of passage in the Netherlands, which has the
highest bicycle-to-person ratio in the world, and is one of Europe’s wettest
nations.
Yet, despite the often gloomy weather, the Dutch are surprisingly chipper. The
latest
World Happiness Report ranked the Netherlands the fifth happiest
country, behind Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden. Dutch kids, meanwhile,
fare even better. In Unicef’s latest child wellbeing index, published this
week, they retained their place as the happiest children in the West (the
research only covers the developed world).
For Dr Margreet de Looze, assistant professor of interdisciplinary social
science at Utrecht University, it’s no surprise. She has spent much of her
career studying global child wellbeing, and reached the same conclusion. Which
begs an obvious question: what are the Dutch doing right?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
