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Playing a devil’s advocate here. Inuit have one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and alcoholism is a problem in Inuit communities. There may be of cou
by drno123 5y ago
Playing a devil’s advocate here. Inuit have one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and alcoholism is a problem in Inuit communities. There may be of course many factors causing this. But could it be possible the venting your anger out keeps you from alcoholism and suicide in the long run?
- lacrosse_tannin 5y agoMaybe it has something to do with colonization????
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoI think that comes with living in an inhospitable environment that provides only very limited stimulation.
- drno123 5y agoYou are probably correct. Russia and baltic states also have high suicide rates. Also there is a lot of alcoholism in nordic and baltic countries, as well as Russia.
- fknorangesite 5y agoUh, do you think maybe that has less to do with their anger management techniques and more to do with colonization and genocide?
- drno123 5y agoNo, because African people were colonized and genocided and the majority of African countries do not have extremely high suicide rates. Jewish people were genocided, Israel has low suicide rate.
- DanBC 5y agoYou can't really compare rates of death by suicide across countries. > Of the 183 WHO Member States for which estimates were made for 2000-2019, just over 60 had high-quality vital registration data. Modelling methods were required to generate estimates for the majority of remaining countries, which were mostly low- and middle-income. [Suicide worldwide in 2019: global health estimates. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0] The best you can do is (cautiously) use the WHO data. Page 9, figure 8, seems to show high rates of death by suicide in Africa. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240026643 https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240026643