(10-08-2017, 08:49 AM)robkelk Wrote: Are Americans really more miserable, more stressed, more isolated, and more distrusting of others than Canadians or Japanese, though? (I don't know - I haven't see the relevant statistics.)
Good question.
There is also the mythologizing about the old west, how has that influenced the attitudes about guns, and the use of violence in general?
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