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England

Worst after the U.S. Sociologically speaking, I wonder whether this has something to do with the England and the U.S.  being the pioneers in implementing an agressive form of capitalism, also known as neoliberalism, that has championed and glorified individualism, narcicism, self-centrism through privatising everytging in the name of "freedom."  The phenomenon is by no means restricted to kids. Mark Fisher's diagnosis is really accurate. England's schools 'worst for cyber-bullying', according to the OECD Related: Life expectancy in the UK
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China

According to this BBC clip, China became communist in 1949 . And we know through schooling, the "cold war", the media, the common people we meet everyday and the experts that China was "communist" until very recently. According to the man in the interview, "there's a long way to go to reach the final goal of building a communist society." Now who should I believe the BBC's journalist or a Chinese 'illiterate', who has never been educated in how to describe socio-economic formations and did not know that "communism" existed in many countries and failed. Could it be that he is just brainwahsed and still believes in an ideal? Here is what the British Academy wrote in an introduction to a conference last year: "2019 will mark the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, which aimed to create the world's largest socialist society. " (my emphasis) However, a few lines down we read, "This confe
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Fundamentalism

Unlike the previous economic recession (the long depression), today almost everyone is predicting a recession in a few months. In 2010 the following question was put to a Nobel Prize winner. – "So what caused the recession if it wasn’t the financial crisis?" – "(Laughs) That’s where economics has always broken down. We don’t know what causes recessions. Now, I’m not a macroeconomist so I don’t feel bad about that. (Laughs again.) We’ve never known. Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity." —Eugene Fama
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Saudi Arabia

"The logic of cultural reductionism goes as follows:  Muslim  women are  uniquely  oppressed women.   Their oppression is caused by their society’s uniquely anti-women culture, i.e.  Muslim  culture. This culture is the polar opposite of Western civilization, which, obviously,  allowed  Western women to progress and advance to the point of parity with men. Western women’s oppression (if it exists), is either negligible or is caused by a few, degenerated uncivilized  sub men individuals. In other words, it is not systemic, but interpersonal and racial; resulting from the animalistic predatory Black men and genetically degenerated poor whites. In order to prevent these interpersonal transgressions from these degenerated/uncivilized  sub men individuals, there should be a more robust patriarchal involvement in the national community to protect Western/white women." The Feminist Movement in Saudi Arabia
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