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10/22/2007: "Difference in racial attitudes toward happiness"

University of Virginia psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi and colleagues at three other institutions found that, on average, European-Americans claim to be happy in general—more happy than Asian-Americans or Koreans or Japanese—but are more easily made less happy by negative events, and recover at a slower rate from negative events, than their counterparts in Asia or with an Asian ancestry. On the other hand, Koreans, Japanese, and to a lesser extent, Asian-Americans, are less happy in general, but recover their emotional equilibrium more readily after a setback than European-Americans.

[ Differences are profound, and you can see why: these different approaches guarantee that someone will succeed when humanity faces obstacles. ]

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/10/race_linked_to.php