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I think Americans on the whole as a nation are just generally more aggressive than other countries. Your country goes to war a lot and this is promoted for votes with people buying into the aggression of winning and being told how great they are. Your school system is built on competition and being the best and popular. Kids are under pressure worldwide in terms of exams but the US seems to have the added pressure within its system where kids compete to be the best at sports and popular. Prescription drugs are advertised on TV, something I found shocking, and kids are prescribed anti-depressants like no other country in the developed world.

Reading the comments sections on just about any news article and the most extreme views seem to be American and usually violent. Racism is rife throughout the United States and people who are different, gay, trans, atheists are condemned to a very high level. Religion dictates laws and there is a drive to take away rights that have stood for 50+ years in recent months.

Then you have guns. I don’t believe America has a worse problem with mental healthcare than other countries because every country complains of lacking funds and systems to deal with this. Don’t believe your politicians when they point to other countries and suggest ‘well they’ve got a knife problem so if we didn’t have guns it would be knives instead’. America has a higher knife crime rate than any of these developed countries too! There’s a big cultural issue to tackle and as an outsider, I have no clue what you are doing to do.