worldwide network of social observers

weltweites Netzwerk von sozialen Beobachter na całym świecie sieci społeczne obserwatorów svetovno mrežo socialnih opazovalcev ةيعامتجلاا نيبقارملا نم ملاعلا ءاحنأ عيمج يف ةكبش réseau mondial d'observation sociale reţea mondială de observatori sociale

社會觀察員的全球網路

rete mondiale di osservatori sociali

社会的な観測者の世界的ネットワーク

rede mundial de observadores sociais παγκόσμιο δίκτυο κοινωνικοί παρατηρητές Всемирная сеть социальных наблюдателей verdensomspennende nettverk av sosiale observatører

red mundial de observadores sociales

Gratitude

I have not so many contacts in the world as to be able to obtain answers from 72 countries. Many of you, anonymously, have made it possible, because you thought it was an interesting project.

Although it involves a danger to give some names, I must admit, first of all, that the involvement of my children and my wife (addicted to aircraft kerosene) has been very efficient to obtain this result.

The majority of observers from Asia are University students to which I have come through my colleague Alfonso Vargas.

Enrique Bonsón provided me about 100 observers from his Erasmus students.

Yolanda Pelayo did the same with the Latin American students of the UNIA.

Juan Márquez spread the link of the questionnaire among the 300 attendees to the Congress of Rural Development.

Sigrid announced it in Galicia, Bruno Gomes did the same in Brazil, Farah Mechbal, Hafsa, Naoko... The space is finishing, but I take my hat off in the presence of all of you that have made it possible.

Thank you.

The social climate of the world

January 2014

A few months ago, when everyone was wishing a merry Christmas and a happy New Year to each other, and hoping that the new one would be much better than the other one, which was about to finish (even its number was ugly by the way), I found two articles with the same content, the first one in English and the other one in Spanish. Both of them claimed, no doubt, that the year 2013 had been the best year of human history.

Javier Peláez, editor in Yahoo’s Science Section, starts recognizing the reader’s perplexity and asking us to withdraw for a moment, get back some steps mentally to be able to contemplate the main view and, as it is said, look at the whole chart... indicators that really matter, the global data of the most important aspects of the life of a human being. And he threshes data and quotations from different organizations, such as WHO or United Nations, in order to sing the goodness of the year

2013, sin duda el mejor año de la Historia de la Humanidad

Zack Beuchamp, editor and publisher of Think Progress Ideas, titled his article

5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History

and sets out his reasons in the following order: 1. fewer people die young, and more people live longer. 2. Fewer people suffer from extreme poverty, and the world feels happy. 3. Wars are becoming less frequent and deadly. 4. Homicide rates and other violent crimes are in a free fall. 5. There is less racism, sexism and other kinds of discrimination in the world.

Facing this "macro" approach about social reality in the world, which offers such promising data, how is the social climate that is perceived in the "micro“ scope, the one around us?. Ssocial climate refers to the prevailent collective feelings generated by the social interaction of the members of a group in a given space or context. The climate is socially constructed, so we say that it is perceived like existing, regardless of the personal feelings of the individual. The social climate reflects what individuals think that most people feel in that situation.

Methodology

Observation instrument

So as to measure the social climate I have used this scale of reference 1 , which has been widely proven in different countries and circumstances and applied already in Huelva last year.

The economic situation is very good The enviroment or social climate of your country is very good The enviroment or social climate is of hope, hopeful The enviroment or social climate is of solidarity, mutual aid The enviroment or social climate is of confidence in institutions The enviroment or social climate is of fear, anxiety The enviroment or social climate is of anger, hostility, aggressiveness The enviroment or social climate is of sadness, passivity The enviroment or social climate is of joy, confidence, happyness The enviroment or social climate is of willingness to talk

I take advantaje of a very practical utility of Google (Drive), which allows me to reach a lot of people very quickly and receive their answers anonymously.

Panel of observers

It is not a statistically representative sample of the world's population. Should this be case, there would be an excess of countries, because their low demographic relevance and otherwise, there would be a lack of answers from others with greater population. I have raised a

"panel of observers",

which do not represent anyone, they transmit their observations. There are observers from a number of countries, as you can see in the following list, although the African continent has been little observed.

Germany Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegobina Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia South Korea Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Denmark Ecuador USA El Salvador United Arab Emirates Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain France Guatemala Haiti Holland Honduras Hong Kong Hungary India Indonesia Ireland Faroe Islands Israel Italy Japan Jordan Latvia Lithuania Macau Malaysia Morocco Mexico Namibia Nicaragua Norway Panama Paraguay Peru Poland Portugal Puerto Rico UnitedKingdom Rep. Czech Romania Russia Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine Uruguay Venezuela Zimbabwe I have sent the questionnaire in Spanish, Portuguese, English and French. I added a final open question asking people to name five world leaders and freely expose in a free way their reflections on the situation in the world, in general, and from their countries in greater detail. Therefore it is intended to provide a qualitative dimension which allow us to explain in greater depth the obtained data. 1 “Clima emocional: su concepto y medición mediante una investigación transcultural”. Páez, Ruiz, Gailly, Kornblit, Wiesenfeld & Vidal,

Revista de Psicología Social, 12

(1997).

CHARACTERISTICS OF OBSERVERS

Less than 30 years

40,5 %

From 30 to 50 years

40,7 %

From 51 to 65 years

15 %

More than 65 years

3,8 % Unemployed 7,5 % Not active: housewife, students... 25 % Retired 4,1 % Full-time working full or part-time, self-employed... 64,4% It is, therefore, of a collective with an abundance of young (40.5), and mature (40.7).

Most (64.4) has a work activity.

Women outnumber men in almost 20.

Observers by Region

15

10

315 77 188 266 2

N: 873 North America Latin America Africa Europe Middle East Asia Oceania

Region

North America Latin America Africa Europe Middle East Asia Oceania TOTAL WORLD

The social climate in the world

Economy very well

2’6 2’5 2’2 2 3’1 3’2 3’5 2’8

affective climate

3 2’8 3 2’5 3’1 2’8 3’5 2’9

Solidarity

2’9 2’8 3’1 3’1 3’5 2’9 3 2’98

Confidence in Institutions

2’7 2 2’4 2’1 2’7 3’1 3’5 2’6

Hope, hopeful

3’3 2’8 3’2 2’6 3’2 3 5 2’96 2’7 2’6 2’9 2’2 3’2 3 5 2’84

Joy, happy Willingness to talk

3’4 2’9 2’9 2’9 3’7 3’1 5 3’11

Anger, aggression

2’6 3’1 2’8 2’9 2’6 2’9 1 2’86

Fear, anxiety

2’9 3’1 2’2 3’1 2’5 2’9 1 2’84

sadness passivity

2’4 2’8 2’8 3’2 2’1 2’8 1 2’7

Positive

3 2’6 2’9 2’6 3’2 3 4 2’93 2’6 3 2’6 3’1 2’4 2’8 1 2’8

Negative CLIMAT E

0’4 0’3 0’3 0’5 0’8 0’2 3 0’13

The social climate in the world is very weak (

0'13

), barely exceeds one-tenth the barrier of the negative sign. Social observers, as a whole, except the two Australians, have concentrated the values of the social climate from their respective regions between

0'5

below zero in Europe and of only 1'3 degrees * .

Fear/anxiety

,

anger/aggression 0'8

and above zero in the Middle East, with a variation, therefore,

sadness/passivity

characterize their more negative aspects. On the contrary, the

willingness to talk

,

solidarity

(students, housewives, etc.), the

youngest

and

hope

are its best qualities.

(less than 30 years old), and those who are

Non-active over 65 years

observers old show positive values. The remaining sectors have a negative perception about social climate, above all the

unemployed

.

Most of the observers who have rated in a determined way the economical situation they have done it in the same way with the different aspects of social climate; for this reason we can notice in this chart a remarkable correlation between both variables, which I have highlighted with the

red

and

blue

circles, Nevertheless, the economy is not the only determinant of climate, as this 40% of observers shows, enclosed in the

green

circle, who rated the economy as bad or very bad and give the highest punctuation to the social climate of their respective countries.

* The maximum value can reach up to 4 and the minimum - 4, since if all positive values added 5, all the negatives could not be less than 1 and vice versa.

Tables of averages of each indicator by countries

Europe Latin America

North America Asia Meddles East Africa Oceania

Most negative social climate (a partir de -1) Without data At first glance you can see numerous countries achieving a positive social climate score, highlighting among them Australia, Faroe Islands, Norway, Japan, Turkey and Canada, with values exceeding 2 positive points. The rest of the positive climate is mainly concentrated in Eastern countries and in Central and NorthernEurope.

Agains these countries, Venzuela, Honduras, Bosnia, Chile, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Italy and Hungary show the worst ratings and they are mainly located in the South of Europe, although the two most negative countries are both from Latin America.

Among both groups of countries we can find other ones, some of which are only a few hundredths to get a positive climate. It is striking to find among them United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and Brazil, which, as we will see, name world leaders.

Although it is not only the economical situation the only determinant of social climate, it is undoubtedly influencing, seeing that the regions with a good social climate are the ones that also show a bigger agreement with the proposed sentence.

Using academic qualification terms, the World, in its whole, with an average of

2.8

of the scale, we can say that it “passes” its Economic subject. The American continent has barely passed. Middle East and Asia have more easily passed. Australia reaches a reamarkable qualification, whereas Africa and Europe have failed.

the economic situation is very good

no agreement 1 2 3 4 5 agree

The economical supremacy that USA had is moving to a background due to new East Powers, such as Australia, Japan, China, Indonesia, or from its own continent, such as Canada, Brazil and Mexico. It is possible that we are arriving at the point, which Attali called nearly two decades ago “ a multipolar World”.

So, according to social observers’ perception, the recent economic crisis is “multipolar” too, with foci in almost all the regions.

A Canadian between 30 and 50 years old observes the economy getting worse, the lack of work and the threat of privatization in his country, as we can also see in those countries which more suffer the crisis:

“The economic situation is bleak with little hope because of a poor economy, limited employment prospects and the threat of privatization.” “Sobre el clima social actual nunca había percibido tanto pesimismo como consecuencia de la crisis” “Una vez más el mundo se ve sumido en una crisis causada por los excesos del capitalismo. Crisis de la que salimos (como siempre) con una mayor desigualdad social y económica que aquella con la que entramos”

Europe

Europe is the continent with the worst social climate, in spite of the fact that there are more countries with positive than negative climate.

Responsible for this situation is, undoubtedly, the strong negative weight of southern countries, where there is a coincidence of a low economical position in contrast with those from the northern countries. But the main reason is that in their climate there is the biggest

distrust to the institutions

, headed by Ukraine, Spain, Slovakia, Bosnia, France, … A Spaniard explains this distrust by corruption:

“Situation of my country: Complet lack of confidence in politicians and politics and in the institutions. Corruption among the politicians: we feel they are playing with us (mainly the two big parties) in order to get access to the public money. They have no interest in the common well of the people,they are just moved by their own benefit. I think this is a common idea today between the citizens in this country .”

A Portuguese basically centres his distrust to the European Union:

“Na Uniao Europeia existe igualmente uma indefiniçao estrategica e uma ausencia da proridade pela solidariedade inter estadual, com a afirmaçao das economias fortes sobre as mais fracas quando os objectivos deveriam orientar se para os principios fundadores da UNIÃO da solidariedade e da subsidariedade”.

A Frenchman divides resposabilities between his country and Europe:

devenu qu'un système de pompe à fric pour banquiers et politiciens...” “En France un parti socialiste qui faire une politique de droite, une Europe qui n'est

A young Bosnian attaches the low economical situation to the bad management of politicians:

not do anythng for peoples good.” “Divided country, bas economic situation, bad leaders who do

Rusia 2’5

An Italian shows her pessimism due to the situation in her country and the leading class:

classe politica e manager, a tutti”.

“La situazione è molto triste e non c'è speranza di miglioramento. Il mio paese, l'Italia, dovrebbe cambiare tutta la sua

4’5 4 1 1’36 2’5 2’6 2’17 2’5 3’4 3 1’39 3 1 2’58 1 3 2 2’5 2

But there is another Europe, with a positive social climate, a more sanitized economy and with more trust in their institutions and politicians. A young Polish deplores that, “

due to many reosons Polish leaders do not play a role of paramount importance in the world ”

, and despite the fact that unemployment is very high among young people, “

I can express my joy, the the last financial crisis did not hit Poland so much ”

.

“The Polish economic growth slowed down, but was "at plus”

.

A Spaniard who lives in Sweden reveals that the crisis has arrived there rebounded, because

”las ventas en Europa son difíciles”.

But

”allí no se ha dejado especular tanto ni robar tanto a los bancos y se ha controlado más los tipos de interés y el precio de la vivienda”

High economy Media Low Very low No observers The economical indicators, as well as the social ones lead to the existence of a dual Europe, the Northern one, headed by Germany, and the Southern one. We have not discovered anything that is already known, but the social differentiation between the prosperous north and centre of Europe and the Southern and Western countries of the continent dramatically increase, as it is recognised by the European Commission: http://actualidad.rt.com/economia/view/83355-aunmenta-brecha-rico-norte-pobre sur-europa

- ,67 1,36

Latin America

,11 ,5 - 1,83 - 3,88 - ,25 1,07 ,54 - 1,58 - 1 - ,12 - ,06 - 1,06 ,66

Latin America is the other region that shows a negative social climate, with a punctuation of

- 0.33

, two tenths better than Europe, although the economical situation is not excessively bad. Here we found the country with the worst social climate of the world:

Venezuela

, with a very weak and mismanaged economy, as well as several social issues, which lead to the biggest climate of

fear

,

aggressiveness

and

sadness

, not just of the continent, but of the world; on the basis of this we find an enormous

distrust in the institutions

, due to corruption and other government mismanagement.

.

.

Two quotations, “softly” expressed, in comparison with others with more crudity, whose observers ask not to render, show the Venezuelan reality:

Venezuela concibió el petróleo como lo que facilitaría una modernización inclusiva sin costos costos. Esto sería la vía mágica a la felicidad. Por una serie de factores que no puedo explicar aquí, falló. En términos económicos, tenemos una economía ineficaz e ineficiente con fuerte presencia estatal” .

And another one, from the politics:

“La situación de Venezuela es insostenible; jamás había visto tanta corrupción ineficacia, burguesa de Estado, Control absoluto del Estado, e ineptitud. Carecemos de valores. Los que pensamos y nos formamos pensando en el bien común no tenemos lugar en esta sociedad de oportunistas, clientelar y rodeada de mediocridad”.

Venezuela is followed by Honduras, Chile, El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina, with negative climate below

salario y los precios de la canasta básica”

. One of the observers defines the country graphically as

-1

. In

Argentina

”se vive una situación de descontento social general por cuestiones de violencia callejera, que se traduce en el sentimiento de inseguridad continuo y obliga a estar a la defensiva todo el tiempo; corrupción y por lo tanto gran desconfianza en las instituciones y líderes políticos, inflación: existe una gran brecha entre el ”un país rico con mentes pobres y escasas”

. It shows special emphasis in the

”alto descrédito del equipo ministerial y caída en picado de la imagen de la presidenta” .

situación de inseguridad y delincuencia en la región centroamericana es muy difícil, tenemos miedo y ansiedad pues no hay confianza en las instancias que supuestamente deberían de proteger a la población”

. We find a similar climate in

Guatemala

: From

El Salvador

we see that

”la “El grado de violencia e inseguridad en mi país, es tan grande, que los guatemaltecos vivimos con temor que en cualquier momento suceda algo malo. No se puede hablar con tranquilidad de ciertos temas como el narcotráfico debido que hasta altos funcionarios están metidos en ello"

.

Division of opinion among the

Bolivians

; a pro-government discourse, based in the macro and micro economical stability, before which

”la oposición está pobre de programa, propuestas y liderazgo por lo tanto creo que tenemos Evo para unos años más”

; another one concerned for

”quienes no están vinculados políticamente”

que no

”pueden ni criticar porque serian señalados como del partido de la oposición, o que existe injerencia política”

.

Méjico

also shows a bad social climate in consequence of drug dealing in the northern regions of the country:

”La situación de México ante la violencia provocada por el crimen organizado es preocupante y no parece tener fin, dado el involucramiento de las autoridades. Lo anterior provoca inestabilidad social y económica”

.

Colombia

is perceived in a dual way, differentiating the rural and urban background.

”Gracias a Dios los que vivimos en la zona urbana tenemos más garantías que los que están en las zonas rurales porque allí tienen problemas de guerrilla y de seguridad. Se tiene la esperanza que algún día esta situación se acabe”.

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1,36 - ,67 - 1,83 Brazil

does not reach the positive climate only for six hundredths, but actually it is an emerging power, both

,11 ,5 1,07 - 3,88 - ,25 ,54 - 1,58 - 1 - ,12 - 1,06 - ,06 ,66

economically and socially. Thus, the observers show a climate of hope and trust, despite the impression given by the media. Three opinions prove it:

que muito se fala mas pouco se faz” ”Diferente do que muitos pensam o Brasil é um país de potencial tanto econômico como social. Mas, o que eu acho que está faltando há muito tempo para que o Brasil "dê certo" é seriedade e compromisso não só dos políticos, mas também de todo o povo brasileiro, que não tem consciência política. Se as verbas milionárias que são desviadas todos os dias fossem investidas na educação e na saúde, que são áreas precárias, o Brasil com certeza seria um país melhor. O problema é “No Brasil a situação economica e social é de esperança. Houve grandes melhorias nos dois sentidos. Porém ainda falta muito. A midia tem uma força muito grande. Denunciaram-se grande roubos e falcatruas politicas. Há uma grande expectativa sobre como vai se desenvolver a politica neste ano de eleições” “Quem conhece de perto a situação do interior de nosso país, sabe que o que a mídia mostra não demonstra a realidade”

Latin American countries which contain observers with a clearly positive climate are Cuba , Ecuador , Uruguay , Perú , Nicaragua and Costa Rica .

The observers from

Cuba

, in spite of the fact that they do not rate very good the economical situation, they rate with higher value the affective climate, solidarity and hope, as well as the lowest rating of fear and aggressiveness. The only achieved quotation precisely focuses in the search of future for the whole region:

“Se trazan estrategias de desarrollo con la participación popular que se sintetizan en un conjunto de lineamientos económicos. Se busca la definitiva integración de los pueblos latinoamericanos y del caribe con pasos firmes”

The economical situation in

Ecuador

is one of the main advantages for its social climate to be the second best one in Latin America. So you can see in the following text, highlighting its ability to assume the emigrants’ return:

”La economía en el país Ecuador es estable y buena, en algunos lugares de Europa su economía se encuentra en crisis y ha obligado a muchos retornar a sus países de origen”.

Another observer also admits opinion discrepancies:

”Seguramente en Ecuador esta respuesta se dividirá entre los partidarios del actual gobierno y los no partidarios. Los no partidarios (dueños además de la mayoría de medios de comunicación) se quejarán principalmente del miedo y de la poca libertad de expresión. Por mi parte, agradecida (no seguidora fanática) del actual gobierno, agradezco los grandes pasos que está dando este país en temas de infraestructura, educación, rentas; no todo es perfecto, pero en siete años el país ha cambiado para bien, luego de los nefastos gobiernos que hemos tenido”

Uruguay

has a higher economy, after their observers, and a recognised leader in the whole region. This is the country where there is more trust in institutions, in spite of the following comment:

buena coyuntura económica regional, sin embargo se percibe desazón por la gestión gubernamental, de la que se tenían mayores expectativas”.

Uruguay se encuentra en una

Perú

also has a good economical position, as a base of their social climate: they are importing qualified human resources from the whole region and from Spain:

vivimos con el principio de desconfianza, a la defensiva, nadie se preocupa por los demás porque solo piensa en sus problemas” “En mi país vivimos bien, la economía nos es favorable, pero

Finally,

Nicaragua

has got a positive social climate despite the fact of having a low economy and little confidence in institutions.

”El clima social en Nicaragua es de inconformidad por el estado autoritario que ha impuesto el presidente actual, teniendo un completo control sobre los poderes del estado y el pueblo en general se siente con las manos atadas”

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- 1 ,1 - ,66 1,72 ,22 - 2,16 - ,5 1,16 1,8

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,47 3

Asia and Oceania

Oceanía

is the continent with the best social climate, as it gets a positive climate of

3

. Both Australian observers rated with the highest score

hope

, la

happiness sadness

, and

fear willingness to talk

and , completely minimised the negative aspects referred to

aggressiveness

as well as they . This is the region with the best economical situation.

Asia

, in its whole, shows the weakest positive social climate, 0.2

, despite being the second region with the best economical situation, after Oceania. The observers from Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, Macao and China saw it in a positive way, whereas those from Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and India did it negatively. As far as economy is concerned, these countries show the same position.

The

Indonesiam

observer focuses social climate in the good development of human relations, which does not tally with the leaders’ behaviour:

”People to people connection is good but leader example need improvement”

.

Japan

could overcome its social climate basically its relationship with China and South Korea got better, and if the problems caused by the accident in the nuclear power station in Fukushima went on solving:

”Separating to rich people and poor people, Lack of peaceful dialogue with china and korea, Shirking of Power of Japanese Companies, Continuing to solve the Fukushima nuclear power problems are current issues of Japan”

Macao

has the best economical level of the continent, attributed by its observers to the development caused by the erection of the casino. But this has contrary effects on the culture and the economy as well. An observer is concerned about the problem caused by the strong inflow of foreign exchange without any correspondence to export (so-called "Dutch disease"):

but at the time, I worry that the city is affected with the Dutch disease already”

Another one claims his desire that the economy from Macao do not depend on gaming .

”As a resident of Macau, I witness how casino development has brought prosperity to this city,

industry.

”Hope the economic situation of Macau does not solely depend on the gaming industry”

. Other ones focus their comments on the problem about environment disrepair caused by traffic congestion:

”The environment is not very bad, but the air pollution of my country is a serious problem based on the situation of traffic jam in Macau”

.

The

Chinese

also claim about the environmental problem, but accompanied by concerns about inequality and opportunity to denounce them:

”China's economy is so good, environment and social culture are not good actually. It makes our country cannot implement sustainable development, so environment and social culture need to be develop and protect better. Also, peace of mind to speak is very important to our country to have real progress in order to let more and more people have good life” ”The problem of " rich people are too rich, and poor people are too poor" is quite serious. I hope Government can help those poor people to be better” ”We should unite together and build up a peaceful and confident society instead of the sad one.The government must take education,farewell,bonus and enployment into consideration”

North America

- 0,03

Rated with

0.4

degrees, North America is the third region with the best positive social climate, and the fourth one in relation with its economical situation, with a significant difference between Canada and United States.

Canadá

(with

1.72

) shares with Taiwan the fourth position about a good social climate. Among its strengths, its general affective climate highlights. The observers also agree with the quality of its economical situation, although one of them finds it sombre and with little future expectation:

”The economic situation is bleak with little hope because of a poor economy, limited employment prospects and the threat of privatization”.

1,72

Anyway this is one of the countries with fewer negative climate rates in the world, and it let us balance the low rating of USA.

- 0,03

Actually,

- 0.03

in

USA

are scarcely beyond the line, but place it, along with Brazil and the UK, in that first negative step, although the three leaders have recognized, of which one would expect a good social climate of their respective countries. Although an observer expressly added that

“los que deciden sobre el mundo de forma global no son líderes ejecutivos como presidentes o primeros ministros; éstos y sus partidos están en manos de grandes empresas multinacionales o compañías bancarias o entes como el FMI”.

Another observer marks that

“dentro de un país la situación económica y social puede variar entre los diferentes estados”

, obviously referring to different situations you can find in USA, with a surface nearly as big as Europe and the same number of countries. Thus, after another observer,

existe esperanza” “en USA los indicadores económicos macros parecen buenos, pero existe desconfianza a nivel de economías regionales, y las fuentes de empleo no aparecen, aunque

. Thus, as we have seen in all the countries that are affected by the crisis,

“the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class pays for everything”

, another observer says..

A Spaniard, resident in USA, also agrees about the fact that economical inequality is increasing, in spite of the fact that we are getting out from a rough economical depression and unemployment decreases:

is improving, the economic inequality is growing” “My new country is recovering from a great recesion, unemployement is decreasing, health care

. And he continues to contrast the situation in his country with the important both economical and social problems:

“My country of origin, Spain is in a tragic situation, the economy is a disaster, unemployment is tremendous, specially for young population, corruption is rampant and social achievements are being lost, religious believes are being used to legislate, the country is loosing researchers and brilliant minds daily”

Africa and Middles East

0,25

Africa has been barely observed; we only have information from three countries: Morocco, Namibia and Zimbabwe, all of them with a positive climate, with little intensity though, as it can be observed in the map.

0,5

Actually they are not the most representative countries from the African continent, due to their historical relation with Europe, above Morocco and Namibia.

0,5

The

hope

is the main positive aspect in the African climate, followed very closed by

solidarity

, whereas

confidence in the institutions

is the worst rating.

None of the ten observers has coincided with any leader, even in the same countries; most of the names are related to local leaders, except a reference to Obama and another one to Merkel, making a disperse list of names.

There were not many meditations about the world situation or about their own countries. Only the observer from Zimbabwe has shown his point of view about local economy, politicians’ behaviour and the population’s climate of hope.

“The country has lost touch with the value of the USD$ and hence is becoming over priced. The people are hopeful, and we know the true value of our country, but it seems that the real wealth is being hoarded by the greed of people in power.”

With an average rating of

0.8

, the four observed

2,1

countries show positive information, Turkey highlights with

2.1

, followed by Arab Emirates with

1

, Israel with

0.75

0,5

and finally Jordan with

0.5

. This is the second region with the best social climate and the third one as far as economical situation is concerned. So is perceived by a

1

Spanish observer, resident in Arab Emirates, who says that

“En Dubai se vive muy bien, sin las preocupaciones de Europa, la gente está contenta y sin ganas de regresar a sus países”

Israeli observers have a high self-esteem:

“ we have good country we feel hapyines and hpe . We all the people tak caer of each other . Israel is a free democrat country and I am happy to live here ”. “ Most of the Israelis thinks that we, as a country, are doing the best we can in a very tough neighborhood and in dramatic times ” ,

referring to Palestinians.

Others are more explicit in these terms:

“ We need urgently peace with the Arabs. The world must take care of the less fortunate countries and their habitants”

.

Or this other consideration:

“ The world could be much better without the Islamic Radicalsist ”

But we also found references to the inner situation in the country, rating it as

“ drastic social deterioration in a short time. government policy clearly aimed to increase social gaps between classes. extreme concentration of capital by the very few ”

In another background we see

“ a general degradation in morals and a growing problame of "social autisme" and personal communication ”

as well as

“ the "i deserve all" culture is prevalant among the young genaration is fueled by bad parenting ”

FIVE WORLD LEADERS 203 145 79 57 54 Obama Merkel Francisco Putin

Obama’s Leadership all over the world is clearly shown, above all in Occident, although many observers lament that he has not covered the expectative that they had of the first black American president, having expected a replica of Martin Luther King. Europe Angela Merkel is the second leader in Occident, the third one in Middle East and the fifth one in Latin America. The Asians substitute her by David Cameron. She also receives some critics from the observers for her “strength with the weak”.

The Pope Francis gets closer to Obama’s leadership in Latin America, maybe due to his peasantry, but we find him too among the five first leaders in Europe and North America, and he is the only one who only receives praises from the observers.

Latin America Putin and Hollande, with scarcely difference between both of them, have the observers’ endorsement to complete the frame of the world leadership.

North America Latin American observers have introduced in the World leadership the President from Brazil and the President from Uruguay. Middle East People from Middle East, especially Israelis, highlight the local leadership with the Prime Minister from Israel, a journalist and The Minister of Foreign Affaires.

The Asians also named local leaders.

The Africans, as we have seen before, had extremely dispersed without repeating any name.

Asia

Hollande

109 102 47 34 24 57 52 Dilma Rousseff 29 José Mújica 26 25 10 5 3 3 Cameron 3 Netanyahu 18 14 13 Yair Lapid 8 Lieberman 6 Xi Jimping 15 13 Chui Sai 9 Li Kequiang 6 Cameron 6