10% of Americans have no close friends. The share who have no close friends rose from 3% in 1991 to 12% in 2021. The share who have 10 or more close friends has also fallen from 33% to 13%.
10% of Americans have no close friends. The share who have no close friends rose from 3% in 1991 to 12% in 2021. The share who have 10 or more close friends has also fallen from 33% to 13%.
The May 2021 American Perspectives Survey finds that Americans report having fewer close friendships than they once did, talking to their friends less often, and relying less on their friends for personal support.
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Cause most of these people are individualistic assholes who only care about themselves. It's part of the American culture.
highly false. Thats the same kind of bullshit some fascist anti-feminist podcast of bald incel men would say. (Maybe not the observation of amerikkka being individualistic, or individualism being bad, but still.) The shift is because of how capitalism isolates us. And how in Amerikkka how expectations of how social interactions are "supposed to be" shaped effect us. This comment itself is individualistic because you blame people instead of all the larger trends that cause this type of thing. I personally have close friends, but I didnt until 2021 to be honest. Not because I was being an asshole, but because I wasn't going to make friends by going to Mcdonalds and working.
(Also not trying to be an asshole here, but this gets me a bit worked up lol.)
I don't blame people I definitely said it's in the culture but ok
Well sure, but the culture isnt being an asshole. What I mean is thats it comes off as condescending of people in specific through wording. Hard to put into words but im sure someone knows what I mean.
Being an asshole is definitely part of the culture, the whole "I got mine fuck you" mentality, the whole superiority of having power (or capital) over someone else, it's literally the ultimate goal in this shitty country and it takes a deep level of deprogramming to undo that shit. Or you could look like me and realize this place wasn't built for you (despite your ancestors literally building everything from the ground up), and see the real ugliness of capitalist culture and how it permeates every fucking facet of our society.
You know what quite true. I suppose what I mean is, that is not at all the reason why people dont have friends.
No it's not, there are lots of other reasons too, but there's so little focus in our culture or society about forming lasting friendships with people you like and respect, or hell just being decent people to each other.
I thought about the way we develop as children, where we're trained to go to school to prepare us for the capitalist machine, being forced to spend your time with other people that are also forced to be there. Then we're forced to work for survival and be around other people forced to work for survival. There isn't a chance for any meaningful relationships to form. That's not even talking about being a marginalized group because that's a whole different subject
I don't think you should blame people for the alienation imposed on them by capitalism. The US has almost no social support structures or places to meet friends outside of school or work. Even those that want to are unable because of long working hours and exhaustion.
I'm not blaming the people, the capitalist culture does this to people, I'm just pointing out that's the reaction
Man being fucking autistic sucks cause I can't even really get my point across well smh
Cause most of these people are individualistic assholes who only care about themselves.
Are they assholes or aren't they?
Western culture produces assholes don't they? Do I have to explain the culture here now?