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[Arumdaum]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... icide_rate

Second in the world, still behind Lithuania.

Why would Lits be so unhappy about anyway, though?

Maybe they miss mother Russia?

[Lackadaisical2]

I've heard about this before.

To be honest, it further highlights the dysfunctionality of Japanese society. Like how they have one of the highest rates of mental illness, serial killers and suicides in the developed world. Weird place, weird society.

You're making rather large assumptions about the state of Japanese society, I'm afraid. Understand that from our point of view, rather a lot of other nations look dysfunctional and weird.

Overall, you shouldn't make too much of it. In every society, there are fringe eccentrics; though it's true that Japan has it's fair share of social problems (a high suicide rate encouraged by tradition-grounded social acceptance and encouragement, the Hikkikomori issue etc), this shouldn't really be taken as a reflection of Japanese society as a whole.

I dunno, people seem pretty happy to make a point of the violence in American society when the suicide problem in Japan kills 4 times as many people (proportional to population).

[Parhe]

Why would Lits be so unhappy about anyway, though?

Maybe they miss mother Russia?

I think you are talking about the Belorussians.

[Norstal]

Why would Lits be so unhappy about anyway, though?

Maybe they miss mother Russia?

I don't understand why SK would have such a high suicide rate. Maybe it's because of the Asian Financial Crash? That one is depressing. Or maybe it's because they have that unfriendly neighbor up north.

[Parhe]

You're making rather large assumptions about the state of Japanese society, I'm afraid. Understand that from our point of view, rather a lot of other nations look dysfunctional and weird.

Overall, you shouldn't make too much of it. In every society, there are fringe eccentrics; though it's true that Japan has it's fair share of social problems (a high suicide rate encouraged by tradition-grounded social acceptance and encouragement, the Hikkikomori issue etc), this shouldn't really be taken as a reflection of Japanese society as a whole.

I dunno, people seem pretty happy to make a point of the violence in American society when the suicide problem in Japan kills 4 times as many people (proportional to population).

I don't really take suicide to represent violence, more a country's happiness.

[Lackadaisical2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... icide_rate

Second in the world, still behind Lithuania.

Why would Lits be so unhappy about anyway, though?

Because Eastern Europe is depressing? The Russians really fucked them up?

All that area is a bit whacky- even Finns like to off themselves.

[Arumdaum]

Maybe they miss mother Russia?

I don't understand why SK would have such a high suicide rate. Maybe it's because of the Asian Financial Crash? That one is depressing. Or maybe it's because they have that unfriendly neighbor up north.

Overemphasis on education, child abuse is common, parents do not show sympathy towards their children and instead do their best to criticize them, huge bullying problems, and if you look or act different most likely you won't be accepted in society.

[Lackadaisical2]

I dunno, people seem pretty happy to make a point of the violence in American society when the suicide problem in Japan kills 4 times as many people (proportional to population).

I don't really take suicide to represent violence, more a country's happiness.

I would agree... no one has said otherwise.

[Arumdaum]

I dunno, people seem pretty happy to make a point of the violence in American society when the suicide problem in Japan kills 4 times as many people (proportional to population).

I don't really take suicide to represent violence, more a country's happiness.

You take a country's happiness to represent violence?

[Parhe]

I don't really take suicide to represent violence, more a country's happiness.

You take a country's happiness to represent violence?

no, that suicide rates represent country's happiness, than suicide rates represent violence.

[Kalysk]

I don't really take suicide to represent violence, more a country's happiness.

You take a country's happiness to represent violence?

The lack of happiness, probably.

[Arumdaum]

You take a country's happiness to represent violence?

no, that suicide rates represent country's happiness, than suicide rates represent violence.

Ohhhh, that. I totally agree.

Why would anyone think otherwise?

[Norstal]

I don't understand why SK would have such a high suicide rate. Maybe it's because of the Asian Financial Crash? That one is depressing. Or maybe it's because they have that unfriendly neighbor up north.

Overemphasis on education, child abuse is common, parents do not show sympathy towards their children and instead do their best to criticize them, huge bullying problems, and if you look or act different most likely you won't be accepted in society.

Hey, that sounds like almost all of Asia!

God we Asians are depressing...

[Lackadaisical2]

Maybe they miss mother Russia?

I don't understand why SK would have such a high suicide rate. Maybe it's because of the Asian Financial Crash? That one is depressing. Or maybe it's because they have that unfriendly neighbor up north.

The OECD notes that the rate in South Korea has increased rapidly even as it has slowed in most other developed nations, with suicides among South Korean males, for instance, almost tripling between 1990 and 2006.

The OECD report attributes the rise to "weakening social integration and erosion of the traditional family support base for the elderly," as well as a fast-changing economy over much of the period. Lee Min-soo, professor of psychiatry at Korea University College of Medicine, supports this view. The high rate of suicide is the result of "social changes that the country's fast economic development brought and a culture that did not adapt to them."

[Arumdaum]

Overemphasis on education, child abuse is common, parents do not show sympathy towards their children and instead do their best to criticize them, huge bullying problems, and if you look or act different most likely you won't be accepted in society.

Hey, that sounds like almost all of Asia!

God we Asians are depressing...

Don't look at me, I'm only ethnically Asian. >___>

[Lackadaisical2]

Hey, that sounds like almost all of Asia!

God we Asians are depressing...

Don't look at me, I'm only ethnically Asian. >___>

Maybe its genetic.

[Barrasso]

Lets see they run at bullets,Eat poop burgurs,Are Extremely short,and they dont have any friends sad sad sad...... i feel so so sorry i couldnt hold that in so sad for them

Funny, I forgot what this was about for a moment

theres oviously something wrong with them

[Arumdaum]

Don't look at me, I'm only ethnically Asian. >___>

Maybe its genetic.

But I'm a bleeding heart liberal that loves kids and cries whenever there's a sad movie on.

[Agritum]

Maybe its genetic.

But I'm a bleeding heart liberal that loves kids and cries whenever there's a sad movie on.

aww

[Norstal]

I don't understand why SK would have such a high suicide rate. Maybe it's because of the Asian Financial Crash? That one is depressing. Or maybe it's because they have that unfriendly neighbor up north.

The OECD notes that the rate in South Korea has increased rapidly even as it has slowed in most other developed nations, with suicides among South Korean males, for instance, almost tripling between 1990 and 2006.

The OECD report attributes the rise to "weakening social integration and erosion of the traditional family support base for the elderly," as well as a fast-changing economy over much of the period. Lee Min-soo, professor of psychiatry at Korea University College of Medicine, supports this view. The high rate of suicide is the result of "social changes that the country's fast economic development brought and a culture that did not adapt to them."

I thought it would be Karoshi or some other problems the economy brought forth.

Don't look at me, I'm only ethnically Asian. >___>

Only a few more years until I can fully become a fat, lazy American.

[Lackadaisical2]

Maybe its genetic.

But I'm a bleeding heart liberal that loves kids and cries whenever there's a sad movie on.

Clearly its just a manifestation of your own inner unrest. *nods sagely*

[Arumdaum]

But I'm a bleeding heart liberal that loves kids and cries whenever there's a sad movie on.

aww

You make me feel like I'm at school again.

[Lackadaisical2]

I thought it would be Karoshi or some other problems the economy brought forth.

Read the whole thing, heres a bit more of the article:

"But at the same time as this "economic miracle" has swept the country to greater riches, many traditional social structures have broken down, with smaller families, rising house prices, the end of lifelong employment, fierce competition for the best jobs and rising alcoholism."

Althoguh they incorrectly blame alcoholism. >.>

Don't look at me, I'm only ethnically Asian. >___>

Only a few more years until I can fully become a fat, lazy American.

Woot!
*high fives and gives a coupon to McDonald's*

You'll need that for your citizenship exam.

[Arumdaum]

But I'm a bleeding heart liberal that loves kids and cries whenever there's a sad movie on.

Clearly its just a manifestation of your own inner unrest. *nods sagely*

I never knew.

What should I do rest my unrest?

*looks around anxiously*

[Churchilland]

Apparently it's because Japan is so efficient and crowded it feels lonely, I saw something on about it on the BBC Show Andrew Marr's Megacities when he was in Tokyo