CNN —The UN World Happiness Report released last week ranked Denmark the world’s second happiest country for a sixth consecutive year. But that would mean you probably don’t understand the Danish way of thinking. The Happiness Report then takes an average of the numbers given by those surveyed in each nation across the last three years. An 80-year old Danish relative of mine thinks it’s why the older generation came out on top in this year’s happiness report. Join us on Twitter and FacebookWhich brings me back to the World Happiness Report and consistently being runner up to Finland.

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