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The US is a nightmare for at least half of its population. Americans find it very difficult to accept this fact, and simply cannot understand that other nation
by rmrfstar 6y ago
The US is a nightmare for at least half of its population. Americans find it very difficult to accept this fact, and simply cannot understand that other nations--like Japan--are governed in the interests of their citizens.
That's why newspapers make yarn out of the tiny difference between Japan's suicide rate (14.3/100k) and America's suicide rate (13.7/100k). They ignore non-suicide deaths of despair in America. Overdoses alone are (21.7/100k) and concentrated in regions where the US traded some industry or another for "geopolitical advantage."
Americans are the most heavily propagandized civilization in this history of humanity.
- 3np 6y agoI’d argue that the DPRK would claim the top spot. The US is definitely up there, though.
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- TeMPOraL 6y agoHere's the problem, though. US is also the primary exporter of culture worldwide, and that includes its cultural problems. For instance, in my country I see young people adopting the same hostile attitude towards the police force as is standard practice in the US, despite us not having any of the problems that Americans justify this attitude with. Hell, even our legal frameworks are different (we're a civil law country, not common law). And yet, the US attitude is being imported wholesale and without question.
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