some new thoughts about people in the world

China was a “border” for me...in mind, in body, in conception, assumption, mental strength, endurance.
I can remember so much about my feelings there, just as well as any landmarks.
I had experienced confusion between myself and someone of another race/culture, but not so persistently...
I have seen up close the global inequality that I have been studying...in fact, much of what we have discussed in my classes I have seen already firsthand or surmised it from empirical experience:
uncontrolled markets, the crush of modernity, the pressure in everyone’s life
WHAT is this force that has everyone, from the US to Germany, to China and the Middle East. The inter-connectedness is causing a shared anxiety among peoples about their future, their stakes in their land and government, security (when all is relative and political systems change overnight in Ukraine; new ideologies are popular in South America, ?, and Russia. And China persists with the Communist Party, but very little left of the highly-controlled cultural output. The policing of people’s lives still exists, but people can own property, but they cannot afford to. I cannot write about this. It’s too complicated.
Maybe I always revert to my own feelings because those I can pinpoint with SOME accuracy; they can be triggered and analyzed.
And my interpretation is the only one.

Where are people the happiest? Where are they the most miserable?