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Japan would do better against "Hikikomori syndrome" by changing the studding environment culture of their school: bulling against the non-normative people (with

Japan would do better against "Hikikomori syndrome" by changing the studding environment culture of their school: bulling against the non-normative people (with closed eyes from the school), super competitive studies, almost mandatory second school, all to become boring salarymen bullied by the corporate higher ups. The society pressure for this life model is the problem, not some sort of genetics. Also, most Hikikomori are men, because women may be able to escape all this crap by getting married. This is also a failure, because they are not expected to get a "real work" and to quit asap if married. There is also the "herbirore" phenomenon, the cousins of the Hikikomoris, mainly people who want to avoid the family culture of Japan. (And let not forget about the suicides, but japan is not ranked first on this contrary to common beliefs) Fortunately all this seems to change little by little, but searching for "biological roots" is just searching for excuses. Next research will be an American university searching for "biological root" in young people doing killing spree in schools ?

DiggyJohnson 4y ago
Answering the question of why does coping with these pressures take this form does indeed have a biological component. It’s not excuse making to ask why humans respond to certain negative pressures in a recognizable pattern.
- turdit 4y ago
  i wonder if your interpretation of the myth of sisyphus that sisyphus just doesn’t cope with negative pressure well enough. maybe we should look for a biological component to explain sisyphus‘s attitude.
- ravenstine 4y ago
  Yeah, but first we must ask why more people drown when a Nicolas Cage movie comes out. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nick-cage-movies-vs-drownings-and-more-strange-but-spurious-correlations https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nick-cage... Point being, all we have is correlation, and to go down the road of chemical imbalance can lead to wasting time, more people socially withdrawing, and possibly more people being harmed by some cockamamie medical treatment for something that may very well be socially instigated. And what better way to dismiss people's problems than to assume they're defective.
NalNezumi 4y ago
The herbivore (I assume that's what you meant), 草食系男子 has little to do with "not wanting family" and more to do with men that are not keen to approach / take initiative towards women. Usually not just because of shyness but because relationships are very very low in their priority list. 絶食系(roughly translated to "fastivore", fasting) are probably the one you're referring to. The statistics that says 40-60% of 30s year old males have never been in a relationship is probably more from this attitude.
- nervousvarun 4y ago
  "40-60% of 30s year old males have never been in a relationship" That is a staggering statistic. If that's even remotely accurate the implications for the future of the country are astounding.
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  - rowanG077 4y ago
    Even more so because Japan does not encourage immigration. But I think in the long run this will be better for Japan. It will probably be the first modern economy that will learn to deal with a shrinking workforce.

DiggyJohnson 4y ago

Answering the question of why does coping with these pressures take this form does indeed have a biological component. It’s not excuse making to ask why humans respond to certain negative pressures in a recognizable pattern.

turdit 4y ago
i wonder if your interpretation of the myth of sisyphus that sisyphus just doesn’t cope with negative pressure well enough. maybe we should look for a biological component to explain sisyphus‘s attitude.
ravenstine 4y ago
Yeah, but first we must ask why more people drown when a Nicolas Cage movie comes out. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nick-cage-movies-vs-drownings-and-more-strange-but-spurious-correlations https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nick-cage... Point being, all we have is correlation, and to go down the road of chemical imbalance can lead to wasting time, more people socially withdrawing, and possibly more people being harmed by some cockamamie medical treatment for something that may very well be socially instigated. And what better way to dismiss people's problems than to assume they're defective.

NalNezumi 4y ago

The herbivore (I assume that's what you meant), 草食系男子 has little to do with "not wanting family" and more to do with men that are not keen to approach / take initiative towards women. Usually not just because of shyness but because relationships are very very low in their priority list. 絶食系(roughly translated to "fastivore", fasting) are probably the one you're referring to. The statistics that says 40-60% of 30s year old males have never been in a relationship is probably more from this attitude.

nervousvarun 4y ago
"40-60% of 30s year old males have never been in a relationship" That is a staggering statistic. If that's even remotely accurate the implications for the future of the country are astounding.
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- rowanG077 4y ago
  Even more so because Japan does not encourage immigration. But I think in the long run this will be better for Japan. It will probably be the first modern economy that will learn to deal with a shrinking workforce.