Excellent article. Very well written.

The funny thing was that I had just finished reading an article in Time magazine on Optimism that I thought was a lot of BS (when I applied what was written to a Nepali context). The Time magazine article was written by a Westerner who came to the conclusion (based on research done on people of Developed nations) that it was better to be optimistic and that "we humans" were more optimistic.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2074067,00.html