How is America ranked the "most empathetic country" in the world?
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Does this have to do with how Americans are raised to do that annoying fake smile (that you are forced to do to "appear friendly" to your American job interviewers and customers), and how donating $1 to your local megachurch means that you are a good samaritan and are going to heaven?
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Americans are SO friendly, just look at how friendly they look with their smiles. Makes you just want to hug them to death. Good thing they're smiling because I would've thought otherwise.
Why isn't Corbyn smiling? He looks suspicious and unfriendly to me. As a proud God-fearing American I don't trust people who don't smile. What's with all these Europeans who don't even smile? I hope America doesn't become like them.
Americans are the kings of creating the representation of being human. They are the lizard people.
Full paper for anyone interested
Conclusion:
higher empathy countries also have higher levels of collectivism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, self-esteem, emotionality, subjective well-being, and prosocial behavior.
Method:
Online survey of 100k people, 75% of participants were burgers. All participants completed survey in english. Metrics of national characteristics derived from other surveys. Linear regression used to assess relation between empathy and national characteristics.
My take:
The map looks correlated with per capita gdp. Looks like material conditions strike again. Otherwise, the methodology is not particularly impressive and large sample sizes inevitably mean you'll find something statistically significant to write about.
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This. Calling bullshit on this petty bourgeois study
What a fucking joke that map is, literally the most barbarous countries on earth are the most empathetic?
Shit test. It bases on opinions and would be actions, not on actual conditions and actions performed in real life. No wonder that America scores high with corrupt charity money inflating their scores, while people claim to "care" for others, while not performing a single real action. It is basically a virtue signaling test.
The same goes for South Korea. Everyone does whatever is the best for "everyone" else. Even if it means ignoring the troubles of others, in favor of keeping a good image for themselves, their family, for their school, or for their workplace. This is why statistics without qualitative data backing it up means nothing.
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position.
Sympathy is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another life form.