The Americans are not wonderful ever. Eating can be alone with a sign.

Americans make a lot of individual dinner reservations.

This was one of the fast food from the annual global happiness report, which was released on Thursday and showed that the United States had decreased to its slightest opening in the country’s rankings – 24 – after ranked 11th in 2012, in the first year of the report.

The report says that the Americans are increasingly miserable The Americans eat alone This century has increased significantly.

In 2023, according to data from the US use of the Labor Office in Labor Statistics, about a quarter of Americans had been reported to eating all their meals alone the previous day, an increase of 53 percent since 2003.

“The extent you share in meals predicts the social support you have, the pro -society behaviors that you offer and the trust that you have in others” Jean Edmanuel de Neve, Professor of Oxford University and author of the report, said in an interview.

This trend is more clear among young people. For American adults under the age of 25, there has been an 80 percent increase in eating alone among Americans, which Dr. De Neve called “annoying”. The survey, which was collected annually by a group of groups including the United Nations and Gallup, offers another data point in the so -called unit epidemic, which researchers and officials in recent years have become a greater source of concern, especially among young people as they spend more time on their phones.

Dr. De Neve said that eating alone increases political polarization.

He said: “The fact that we are increasingly socially isolated means that we are not testing our ideas around the world with other people.” “Whenever you sit around the table with other people, they may have somewhat different views, the more you start to baptize your own views. The increased lack of social interaction and social isolation as a result, for many people – amplify them by echo rooms – make people more radical“

The report also shows that the low happiness and social confidence in the United States and parts of Europe has led Political polarization. According to the study, the share of the American people who trust in others decreased by about half since the 1970s, as it decreased to 30 percent from 50 percent.

“Extremist voters have a higher level of social confidence, while right -wing populists have a very low level of social confidence,” the report says.

For the eighth year in a row, Finland ranked first in the classification. Of course, not everyone in Finland Happy to surveyWho asks the population of the countries to evaluate their happiness. The study represents the past three years.

On Thursday, during a discussion seminar on the report in Washington, DC, Lina-Kisa Mikola, Finland’s ambassador to the United States, presented many theories about the reason for the happiness of the Finns for a long time. Confidence between citizens and the educational system included proximity to nature and “weekly sauna sessions”.

“Our American friends are smiling and laughing more than we do.” “But happiness for us may be satisfied.”

In an interview, Ms. Mecola said that Finland has other structural advantages on the United States, including its size.

“In a small country, there may also be more of this awareness that we need each other,” she said. “In a larger country, you can put yourself in one way or another in different angles“

Costa Rica (No. 6) and Mexico (No. 10) entered the first ten positions for the first time, and other countries such as Lithuania (sixteenth, nineteenth) and Slovenia (nineteenth, from the twenty -first) continued to rise in the classification.

During the discussion episode, Catalina Crespo Sancho, Costa Rica’s Ambassador in the United States, has been well -known – well.

“They are very slow, yes. But no one wants to eat them,” said Ms. Sancho. “They do not want to eat any person or any other animals in the woods. They are compatible with everyone. All animals are in line with them. However, they reach where they need to get them, although it is forever required crossing the road.”

But with regard to the United States, Mrs. Mikola remained optimistic: “I did not meet an unpleasant person during the six months here.”