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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by Fricken on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:25AM (#38938582)
11 years ago I visited Lombok, and island adjacent to Bali in Indonesia, where people generally lived very traditional village lifestyles and most adults over 30 were illiterate. They had recently been provided 4g cellular coverage, and all the teenagers and young adults were lounging around doomscrolling Facebook lite on their $50 android phones. There was no multigenerational transition for them.
Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by throwaway2037 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @10:53AM (#38939930)
> most adults over 30 were illiterate

Literacy was over 95% in 2010 in Indonesia. It takes 5 seconds to Google for it. Since most of Indonesia are Moslems, they learn to read the Koran at an early age. Yes, I know that small parts of Lombok are Hindus.

Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by Fricken on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @03:40PM (#38942764)
I was going off what the family I stayed with in Kuta told me. The mother of the family could not read. Indonesia is quite diverse. There are many isolated ethnic groups. On Lombok material quality of life can vary quite a bit from one village to the next, as can their commitment to Islam.
Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by throwaway2037 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @08:42PM (#38996446)
Kuta? Now, I am completely lost. You stayed in Bali (where Kuta is located) and the family was telling you about life in a the next island (Lombok). Strange. I would have not believed it unless they had intimate ties to Lombok.
Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by Fricken on Thursday January 18, 2024 @08:14AM (#39041265)
You really are lost, you're on the wrong island