Greenland, Welfare Society, and Suicide
Check out this article. This paragraph is particularly interesting:
Peter Bjerregaard from Denmark’s National Institute of Public Health has noted that while Greenland’s suicide problem began in 1970, almost all the deaths involved people born after 1950—the same year that Greenland began its transformation from remote colony to welfare state, as the Danes resettled residents to give them modern services and tuberculosis inoculations. Hicks, the Canadian researcher, said the correlation is present in other Inuit societies as well.
This is what you get when you too-rapidly transform communal norms, traditions, and institutions. Conservatives rejoice!
