Seems like very nice to live in the friendly country, I am surely being pampered by all residents in that country, though I am a foreigner, an experience in Bandung has taught me on how to gauge people based on their friendliness, communication, help, and kindness, especially new ranking of friendliest country just came out make me know how to gauge the country I live currently.
Based on the survey done by Forbes (I hope this is a trustable surveying company), amongst the 2,155 expats in 48 countries in four continents that had been surveyed during the last year (which continent is not included, I also do not know), Canada becomes the most welcoming country in the world because 95% of respondents said Canadians are the best in making friends amongst locals (wow, so great), while the second ranking goes to Germany which respondents had voted 92% (I guess Germany should be in the first ranking because all belowmentioned reasons),the third belongs to Australia with 91% (but need to remember Australia was ranked in the last in joining group categories which means that are good in communicating amongst themselves yet ignoring expats) and last ranking goes to United Arab Emirates, with the percentage of 54%.
The surveys are based on four criteria which are ability to befriend locals, the numbers of people that join a community group, and learn the language and lastly the percentage that buy property.What I can say is that Germany is the most friendliest country in the world because they possess groupthinking and easy to have meeting with people. Besides, they possess a nice interaction between work life and social life. (what a nice correlation as we do not feel tensed while working).
UAE has been placed in the last ranking because of language barrier amongst the expats as China and India are also placed in low ranking because both have used Mandarin and Hindi language respectively as a majority language. Let's imagine if I were an expat, it is quite difficult for to communicate with these three countries as languages that have been used are Arabic, Mandarin, and Hindi, should be the citizens of there countries learned the international language which is English. They actually should learn from Germany because if I were to stop on the street I can easily communicate in English. (because most expats can talk in English). Besides, these three countries were ranked in low positions because of cultural differences, which the Western expatriates have difficulties to adapt with local cultures.
The question is where are we in those ranking? Have we complied to all these criteria to be as Germany? The question lies on our heads, we are the one to decide our ranking.
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