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April 14, 2025 7:56 AM   Subscribe

The Gross National Happiness index was indeed a brainstorm from Bhutan. However, all is not rainbows and unicorns in The Land of the Thunder Dragon. The Lhotshampa people were ruthlessly cleansed from Bhutan in the 80s/90s, and Bhutan, recently ranked at 95 out of 157 countries, has slipped off the World Happiness Report due to a lack of data. It's no Shangri-La.
posted by kozad (1 comment total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
Yes Bhutan gets a free pass on how it treats people of Nepalese descent, the article suggests human rights violations are overlooked because the small country has some some strategic importance.
posted by Narrative_Historian at 2:38 AM on April 15


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