Very accurate.
Grand. That’s a word that seems specifically created for Irish people because it can be used to answer a million different questions.
‘How was your meal?’, ‘what does the weather look like?’, ‘how did you feel after losing the match?’, can all be answered with the word, grand. Ok, maybe not all of those questions but you get my point.
A company named Gallup recently measured the daily emotions of people living in 148 different countries by asking them the frequency that they experienced five positive and five negative emotions on a daily basis.
Anger, stress, sadness, physical pain and worry were the negative ones. The five positive experiences include feeling well-rested, being treated with respect, enjoyment, smiling/laughing, learning or doing something interesting.
This sounds an awful lot like the plot of Inside/Out, doesn’t it?
Obviously cultural differences and personality variations have to be taken into account, but here’s where Ireland ranks in terms of positive emotional response when compared with other countries (the left side of the graph is positive, the right is negative)
It seems that we’re a ‘glass is half-full’ nation and that things are grand with us. Just don’t push us though! On the contrary, here’s a graph depicting the most and least emotional countries.
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