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		seattle_spring on March 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate studen... Meanwhile in China you also have one of the highest suicide rates per capita in the world.

icelancer on March 17, 2019 [–]

That's... not true by official statistics.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-c...

Japan and the United States are both quite a bit higher. Is it likely that China is fudging the numbers and it's higher than what they report? Yes. But neither Japan nor the US come off as looking good here.

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