I find that odd.  If folk music is an indicator of a country's happiness, Bulgaria sounds like a really happy place.

People in Latin America have higher happiness scores than the United States.  It has to do with taking time out to enjoy life and be with family and friends.  And their music shows it.  And most of them live in poverty.  Go figure?

In the States, on the other hand, listening to country music will make you so depressed you'll want to jump off the nearest bridge.  The main themes of country music are love gone wrong, drinking because of love gone wrong, homesickness and loneliness.  People here are not happy because they work too much and take too little time out for fun.  The state of the economy here doesn't help.

What do you think?