17.4.07

Järkyttävien tapahtumien johdosta Ameriikassa etsitään selittäviä tekijöitä myös yksilötason takaa. Pominpa juuri sen kohdan, jossa viitataan kotimaahamme:
"Another explanation is that American youth have different attitudes toward life and death than do youth in other countries. The authors cited a World Health Organization study, which reported that American youth are more likely to believe it's appropriate to kill to protect their property than were youth in Estonia, Finland, Romania, and Russia. Similarly, the cited study noted reports that adolescents in the United States are more likely to approve of war than were youth in any of those countries."
Ruotsissa pelätään, että vastaavaa voi tapahtua sielläkin, mutta sama amerikkalainen tutkimus todistaa hieman päinvastaista:
"In contrast to the statistics on fighting, the statistics on bullying varied greatly among the countries in the survey. Israeli students were the most likely to have been bullied in the last school term (42.9 percent) and Swedish students were the least likely (14.8 percent). In the U.S., about 41 percent of student said they had been bullied in the last school term."

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