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World’s Most Interesting Places Vol. 10 | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

2025-09-20 Travel & Events
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Global Contrasts: Happiness, Tradition, and Demographic Decline

Discover how nations worldwide struggle to balance ancient values with global modernization, from Bhutan's experiment in enforced happiness to Japan's demographic freefall. Readers will gain insight into active strategies nations employ to sustain culture, revitalize economies, and combat population collapse.

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  • Bhutan's success in modernization leads to critical youth emigration (9% departed), prompting the King to initiate the high-stakes Galifu Mindfulness City project.
  • Cajun and Zydeco musicians actively fight cultural homogenization by emphasizing French language and deeply rooted community traditions.
  • Japan faces an existential demographic crisis where deaths now outpace births by nearly a million annually, straining all societal functions.
  • Government policy responses, such as AI matchmaking in Tokyo and rural job creation in Japan, highlight unusual efforts to stimulate life and community.
  • Cultural resilience requires active participation ("Live your culture or kill it"), a principle seen both in Louisiana music and Bhutan's civic commitment.

This broadcast segment contrasts three distinct global narratives facing the pressures of modernity. Bhutan showcases an attempt to steer development while preserving sacred value; Louisiana demonstrates how music and food anchor a blended heritage against assimilation; and Japan illustrates the severe societal impacts when birth rates plummet, forcing radical internal policy pivots.

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From 2024, Lesley Stahl’s report on Bhutan, a country that prioritizes happiness, but has seen 9% of its population leave in recent years. From August, Jon Wetheim’s report from the marshy interior of southern Louisiana on Cajun and Zydeco music. And also from August, Wertheim’s report on Japan's declining birth rate and what the country is doing about it. #bhutan #louisiana #japan "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/full-episodes/ Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook: https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on X: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected] 0:00 Intro 0:11 Bhutan (Part 1) 11:42 Bhutan (Part 2) 22:16 Sounds of Cajun Country 35:17 The Land of Declining Sons

Top Comments (10)

@ShmokeNaPancake 2025-09-22

This is a real government that looks out for its people and it’s country. Not like the sellouts today in basically every country.

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@gloriapalmer6629 2025-10-04

I am one of the lucky Americans to have visited Bhutan. It’s spectacular in every way. And it’s clean, unlike its neighbors. People are uber friendly and kind. Would go back there anytime.

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@malice2371 2025-09-20

Great job. Thoroughly enjoyed all 3 segments.

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@MDZaragosa7 2025-09-22

Keep up the good journalism

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@ugyenpelgen990 2025-10-15

Thank you for covering my country- a place that stresses on Happiness

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@KarenJohnson-j2r 2025-09-30

What a beautiful concept. 🙏🙏🙏

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@ludna2 2025-10-01

Excellent coverage of the topic.

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@danepilipina8069 2025-12-12

It’s so beautiful and peaceful

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@NicholasGena-u9d 2025-09-26

Very insightful reporting.

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@AminaMuhammadNasir-x9e 2026-03-20

Great tips, thanks for sharing!

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