Americans are the loneliest, most isolated people

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138. It's about modern society, it is for a US audience

but it is not about how America is more or less lonely than other places, it is about how social media impacts social activity.

Why do you think countries you believe are so much less lonely and isolated than the US have much higher rates of suicide? Is it possible that the 'close ties' some think are positive are actually stifling methods of social control, preventing happiness rather than causing it?

Feelings of loneliness and isolation are human states, not national traits.

In my experience, the most lonely of humans are those who are part of a diaspora. Rich or poor, these are the people who feel that isolation the very most. It does not really matter which country they miss, but when a culture is largely removed from one place by force or by politics and winds up in another, that is a special sort of isolation. America is made up of diasporas. Both literal and personal. Generations of them, waves and returns of them.
That's probably not simple enough for DU, but it is something to ponder.