※ 引述《yduiy (奶茶)》之銘言：
: 加州的Palo Alto是中產或有錢人的住宅區
: 好像有很多亞裔住在那哩,也吸引很多台灣人,說中文會通嗎?有鄉民來自Palo Alto嗎?
: 那裏是一個怎麼樣的地方?
一個以中學生自殺率高出名的城市
兩個月前的新聞: 美國疾病管制局對Palo Alto青少年連續自殺展開調查
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-05-02/cdc-investigating-cluster-teen-suicides-palo-alto
(縮網址: http://goo.gl/W9wAF9)
Palo Alto, a wealthy Silicon Valley city that is known for being the home of
Stanford University and Facebook. Increasingly, though, it's gaining a
reputation for being the home to a troubling increase in teen suicides.
Seven years ago, three students from Gunn High School killed themselves;
last year, there was another cluster of four suicides at Gunn, Palo Alto High
and another private school. Just last week, the death of a recent Gunn
graduate was ruled a suicide.
(亂翻: Palo Alto, 以Stanford大學與Facebook聞名的矽谷好野城市,
這幾年成為眾所皆知以青少年自殺聞名的城市.
七年前, 有三名Gunn High的學生自殺, 去年有四名Gunn High學生自殺與
一名私立學校學生自殺. 上禮拜(今年四月底)有另一名Gunn High的畢業生自殺)
Palo Alto's teen suicide rate — 10 deaths over seven years — is four or
five times higher than the national average. In February, the Santa Clara
County Health Department asked the Centers for Disease Control to visit and
investigate the crisis. The CDC report is pending. But of note to many mental
health professionals here: 40 percent of the victims have been Asian American.
In Palo Alto Unified School District, over 40 percent of students identify as
Asian.
(亂翻: Palo Alto的青少年自殺率: 七年十人, 是全美平均的四到五倍.
今年二月Santa Clara County(Palo Alto市所在的郡)衛生機關要求CDC
(美國疾病管制中心)來調查. 儘管CDC的調查報告還未出爐,
但許多心理衛生研究學者不得不注意到一個事實: 40%的自殺死者是亞裔美國人.
在整個Palo Alto學區, 有超過40%的學生是亞洲人.)
後面落落長寫了很多記者的採訪以及相關單位對青少年連續自殺事件的研究
還有一連串的輔導與防治措施
去年五月有另外一篇深入報導"為何Palo Alto中學生選擇自殺"中有採訪Gunn High的學生
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Why-are-Palo-Alto-s-kids-killing-themselves-6270854.php
(縮網址: http://goo.gl/uPB4OK)
(一樣隨便挑我想翻的部分亂翻:)
Gunn High有半數學生的家長是亞洲人
64%以上的學生GPA超過3.5
有學生表示"拿B跟災難沒兩樣"
("consider a B a disaster")
一名高二學生對記者說:
"There's no middle point for success.
There's no 'I'm here and I'm happy with where I am.'
It's always 'I need to be up there'."
一名高一學生對記者說她覺得"如果理工科不行人生就不會成功":
"Both my parents are computer scientists,
My brother’s really good at everything STEM
[science, tech, engineering, and math]—
which they value a lot and is basically what
Gunn and Palo Alto are all about.
If you're not into that, you feel that you are not going to succeed."