March 20 (M), 2017 What is the difference between the Happiest vs. the most Friendly country in the world ?

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Two world reports:
According to new data published by the United Nations, The Guardian reports that Norway is the happiest COUNTRY in the world. http://time.com/…/country-happiest-united-nations-sustaina…/
Another report based on Expat Insider 2016: Three Years of Insights: Taiwan is ranked as TOP 1 the most friendly COUNTRY of the world. Refer to - https://www.internations.org/expat-insider/
Thanks to professor 翁聖峰's Taiwan updates.

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Crystal LC Huang The most updated info of the Independent movements- referendum scheduled: Puerto Rico (6/11/17 US), Catalonia (9/17/17, Spain), New Caledonia (2018, France), Bougainville (2018, Papua New Guinea).

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The following type of separatism is based on geographic and socioeconomic conflicts (with its variations of secession, and independence) movements:
The following info possibly consists only of original research (November 2015):
Malaysia's Sabah and Sarawak Separatists
Brazil's South Region Separatists
Cascadia Separatists
São Paulo state Separatists
Hong Kong independence movement
Taiwanese independence
Okinawan separation from Japan.

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Crystal LC Huang 天下大勢, 分久可合, 合久可分. 覺醒的民意民志與既得利益的衝突 (比如得了黨派甜頭且賣乖; 家勢護佑; 年又無知; 或人在江湖身不由己, 以而朝秦暮楚, 以及西瓜倚大邊..等等.), 可導向最大多數人的最髙福祉或困境. So, what is a secessionist movement? What causes that?

According to The “leviathan” model that big countries/regimes - empires, colonial states, totalitarian regimes...etc.) have employed proven not to work. Large, unaccountable bureaucracies set policy for the peons out in the hinterlands. Resentment against government is at all-time highs, while tyrannical governments are dreaming up more and more ways to keep those peons down.

"The capitals of these large countries contribute little, if anything, to the greater economy. In The Land of the Free, Washington is awash in money it stole from the people that are actually productive: the resource producers, the small business owners, the innovators.

That’s why governments don’t like secession movements. Secession means a loss of power for Big Government. Small nations have small governments and fewer resources to drone three-year-old in Yemen, or to send IRS agents chasing after a guy who lives overseas and doesn’t report his local checking account.

After all, enforcing draconian Big Government laws requires… well, Big Government.

Smaller nations can’t push their neighbors around so easily, nor can small nations demand that other nations impose laws like FATCA on their banks.

That’s why secession movements have a habit of being brutally suppressed. When people just want to be free and live under their own local government, Big Government gets angry and sends the military in. It’s happened in Iraq, Indonesia, Russia, and Tibet.

The cold, hard truth is that smaller governments have better track records of managing their finances, as well. Critics will say that tiny countries in Central America or Africa have had issues with high interest rates and sovereign debt. However, Singapore is running budget surpluses. The countries mired in red ink are the big, imperialist powers.

Singapore, Switzerland, and others of their ilk have better things to do.

That’s why secession is a key stepping stone in the future of self-determination and sovereignty..." -
refer to http://nomadcapitalist.com/.../countries-secession.../

These countries all have secession movements underway

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Crystal LC Huang Why has Taiwan been engaging in her overdue endeavors to join United Nations? Isn't this an intrigue of the International community? Hasn't she been a nation-state with territory, cultures, languages, and sovereignty as an organized political community under a democratic government for many decades? Why (or who has the guts) fighting for the Independence? - Here is a tip of the iceberg (info might not be adequate from the wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement

Taiwan independence movement - Wikipedia

Taiwan independence movement is a political movement whose goals for independence have arisen from…

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In addition to the geo-politic-histrionic pressure (mainly, from China, the US. UN, and the relevant parties) and complexity of the ambiguous/suspending Treaties, internally, the ethnic groups in Taiwan add up stories complicating the potential referendums. Here is an approximated "diversity of 原住民, 原臺民(閩客), 大陸民, 新生民" based on my observation (without data support, since most are invisible political ideology). If you have updated demographic info at hand, please correct or share. Thanks.

Taiwanese/aborigines, ~1%; (native inhabitants),

Chinese, ~10%; (KMT followers to Taiwan, after 1947 and the Chinese Civil War); may prefer to unify with China...?

Taiwanese-Chinese,~10%; (the 2nd or 3rd generations of the above, through ethnic-identity reinforcement, and formation),

Chinese-Taiwanese, ~15%; (early immigrants, through ethnic-identity
indoctrination, denial, confusion, and formation),

Taiwanese-Taiwanese, ~60% (most are the new generation, self-identified?),

and the rest: ~4%.