※ 引述《yduiy (奶茶)》之铭言：
: 加州的Palo Alto是中产或有钱人的住宅区
: 好像有很多亚裔住在那哩,也吸引很多台湾人,说中文会通吗?有乡民来自Palo Alto吗?
: 那里是一个怎么样的地方?
一个以中学生自杀率高出名的城市
两个月前的新闻: 美国疾病管制局对Palo Alto青少年连续自杀展开调查
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-05-02/cdc-investigating-cluster-teen-suicides-palo-alto
(缩网址: 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.
(乱翻: Palo Alto, 以Stanford大学与Facebook闻名的硅谷好野城市,
这几年成为众所皆知以青少年自杀闻名的城市.
七年前, 有三名Gunn High的学生自杀, 去年有四名Gunn High学生自杀与
一名私立学校学生自杀. 上礼拜(今年四月底)有另一名Gunn High的毕业生自杀)
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.
(乱翻: Palo Alto的青少年自杀率: 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)卫生机关要求CDC
(美国疾病管制中心)来调查. 尽管CDC的调查报告还未出炉,
但许多心理卫生研究学者不得不注意到一个事实: 40%的自杀死者是亚裔美国人.
在整个Palo Alto学区, 有超过40%的学生是亚洲人.)
后面落落长写了很多记者的采访以及相关单位对青少年连续自杀事件的研究
还有一连串的辅导与防治措施
去年五月有另外一篇深入报导"为何Palo Alto中学生选择自杀"中有采访Gunn High的学生
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Why-are-Palo-Alto-s-kids-killing-themselves-6270854.php
(缩网址: http://goo.gl/uPB4OK)
(一样随便挑我想翻的部分乱翻:)
Gunn High有半数学生的家长是亚洲人
64%以上的学生GPA超过3.5
有学生表示"拿B跟灾难没两样"
("consider a B a disaster")
一名高二学生对记者说:
"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'."
一名高一学生对记者说她觉得"如果理工科不行人生就不会成功":
"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."