"Not enough of our newly arrived immigrants are visiting our shrinks! Send more butter tarts!"

So it shouldn’t be reported on?

Can you expand on this? It seems to me that deep seated cultural issues are the sort of thing that therapy is supposed to address. However, I may be looking at this from the wrong angle.

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The people who see issues with themselves get therapy. The ones that see no issues with themselves don't.

That is what "deep-seated cultural issues" means. Some subset of the population aren't seeing a problem with their own behavior. They see nothing that needs addressing. The rest have to learn how to put up with or avoid them.

Government reports like this sometimes motivate additional studies and think pieces, which in turn creates a framing that may be used later when society decides it's truly ready for change.

So no, they can't change the world, but sometimes they can plant a seed.

This all is just pure virtue signaling and the only beneficiary will be some NGO who gets some money and produces a report and a slide deck which only they will read. It's like the Soviet joke of "we had a 4 hour meeting about improving production in communism in the factory today and after this we will work not better and not worse than before". Until that suffering actually causes measurable damage that affects something on a grand scale that the country needs, nothing really will happen.

We live in a world that desperately needs drastic measures to change it.

But we live too comfortably for anyone to take those actions.

Like a boiling frog, ppl will wake up when its too late.

Isn't recognizing there is a problem the first step on fixing the problem?

The report gives no indication its a male problem. It’s just a survey targeting men. Maybe its a general mental health problem. We know mental health issues in women have increased over the same time period.

Okay? What's your point? That the report didn't find every problem, it just found one problem?

The claim is its a MALE mental health problem. Where is the evidence?

This report? The existence of a male mental health problem does not imply the existence or absence of a female mental health problem or any other type if mental health problem.

>The existence of a male mental health

Maybe you can you disambiguate your phrasing here. Which do you mean?

1.There is a MALE mental health problem -- some mental health problem wholly or partially unique to men

2. There is a mental health problem observed among men

If #1, where is the evidence? A men-only survey cannot show it. If you surveyed left-handed people and 30% had anxiety, that doens't mean there is a left-handed anxiety problem.

If #2, we agree on what the research shows, but it brings your original point into question: "Isn't recognizing there is a problem the first step on fixing the problem?" Which problem are we recognizing? Labeling a general problem a male one is a guess at the diagnosis, and it points the search for causes and fixes at men when nothing in this report says that’s where they are, and other available information shows worsening mental health in women.

> National health reports cannot fix deep-seated cultural issues

It starts with an objective report on reality

This report is not an objective report on reality however (if such a thing is even possible when it comes to culture / psychology)