Prof says people in Spanish-speaking cities are kinder

Who are the kindest people on the planet? Robert V. Levine, a professor at California State University at Fresno, set out to find out recently, performing experiments across the globe to see how people on the street would react to strangers obviously needing help of some sort.
 
Here's his conclusion: "The two highest-ranking cities [for kindness to strangers] are in Latin America: Rio [de Janeiro] and San José [Costa Rica]. Overall, we found that people in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking cities tended to be among the most helpful: The other three such cities on our list, Madrid, San Salvador and Mexico City, each scored well above average. Considering that some of these places suffer from long-term political instability, high crime rates and a potpourri of other social, economic and environmental ills, these positive results are noteworthy." Read Levine's study....