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to answer your question: It‘s because we are generally more educated

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I mean for the European it isn‘t a virtue or an achievement to be positively thinking or intentionally optimistic. I‘d argue most are still content
The west coast mind cannot comprehend

educated just enough to fully embrace the human mind's tendency towards pessimism 

not educated enough to push past it

sad!