Ciao tutti insieme,
Ho vissuto sia in Danimarca che nel Regno Unito e di recente ho fatto un video immergersi nei confronti del benessere giovanile tra i due. Statisticamente, i giovani danesi riportano una soddisfazione della vita molto più elevata rispetto ai giovani britannici (insoddisfazione dell’11% vs 26%). Lo stile educativo, il supporto per la salute mentale e la prima carriera sembrano svolgere un ruolo enorme.
👉 Se sei curioso, ho disimballato l’intero rottura qui:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is5txsgtwbg
Ma vorrei Veramente mi piace sentire direttamente da danesi:
- Si sente così a terra?
- Ci sono aspetti negativi o pressioni culturali che gli estranei trascurano?
- L’idea della “felicità giovanile” è reale, o più mito della realtà ?
Grazie per la lettura. Apprezzo sempre ascoltare l’esperienza vissuta dietro le statistiche.
Is Denmark really doing a better job supporting young people, or am I seeing it too idealistically?
byu/hexferro inDenmark
di hexferro
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Denmark has one of the highest mental disorder medications in the world, and youth drink a lot. In general, I feel the life is better, particular work-life balance. In the UK, I have read how people either have to be stay-at-home mom, or work two full-time jobs, just to cover the kindergarten-pay, so they get around 45 minutes a with their kids.
I must admit, however, that UK has been a sinking ship for the last decades. Stagnant growth, high inflation, bleak outlooks on life if you live (outside and particularly north) of London. The NHS is at its knees, and neither of the large parties can do anything to solve it.
Is Denmark doing a better job? Surely. Are we doing a perfect job? Far from it – going to a mental therapist is often not covered by the public health insurance, so you have to wait months or years to get to one, if you don’t pay yourself OR you are covered by a private insurance.
Are there downsides? Yes, if you are introverted, you can be doomed. Danes stick together with those we went to kindergarten and school with often, so when people move around for university and life in general as adults, people can be split. It is lonely and difficult to foster new friendships if you move to Copenhagen as an adult for work, for instance. Not impossible, but not easy either.
Do I generally think, as a young Dane, that I have a good life, compared to other nations? Yes. Do I think it is easy? Far from it. Would I like to live in other countries? There are a couple but UK is not in that list. However, realistically, I would live my life in Denmark. Sitting on these spring and summer evenings make me always make me realize how lucky I am.
Albeit struggling with both university + jobs + full time jobs and kids once you are done with education is tough, I don’t think I would have had it better in many countries of the world. My nuance is just to say; We are far from perfect, but I genuinely believe we have it better than most other places in the world.
I think it’s because Denmark is simply doing better at keeping the population young by importing young workforce, resulting in more means to care for the young and old
Don’t get me wrong, Denmark still has an aging population, but we are doing better than most of the world
To me the British economy is a mess and people are getting hurt, and it will get worse
Completely off I’d say.Â
We have a long standing tradition of neglecting children, their education and their mental well-being. Or rather, we under prioritize resources for those things.
When I look at the british youth, I’d say they suffer from your country’s greater structural problems: widespread poverty, extreme classicism, rapidly changing demographics due to immigration and white flight (many towns like Swindon basically went 90% ethnically british to <20% in one or two generations), and the fact that your local politics, especially in the provinces with rapidly changed demographics, have a massive and continually rising influx of political islamism.