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TRFA, the statistics show that the suicide rate for Asian women in the specified age group is higher than the suicide rate for any other race or ethnic group.
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<p>Hey, corranged, do you have a link for that? The CNN article didn't seem to list actual suicide rates.</p>
<p>The only thing I could find [url=<a href="http://www.postsecondary.org/archives/previous/132603SUICIDE2.pdf%5Dhere%5B/url">http://www.postsecondary.org/archives/previous/132603SUICIDE2.pdf]here[/url</a>] was the "suicide rates by gender and race/ethnicity for ages 15 to 24, 2000."</p>
<p>According to the link, Asian women in that age group had 3.1 suicides per 100,000 population, same as White (non-hispanic) women, higher than Black and Hispanic women (2.2), and lower than American Indian women (6.2).</p>
<p>From the CNN article:</p>
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Family pressure often affects girls more than boys, according to Dr. Dung Ngo, a psychologist at Baylor University in Texas. "When I go talk to high school students and ask them if they experience pressure, the majority who raised their hands were the girls," he said.</p>
<p>Asian-American parents, he says, are stricter with girls than with boys. "The cultural expectations are that Asian women don't have that kind of freedom to hang out, to go out with friends, to do the kinds of things most teenagers growing up want to do."
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<p>But according to the link above, men commit suicide several times more frequently across races and age groups. (For example, 10.5 per 100,000 among Asian men 15-24, vs. 3.1 for Asian women of that age.) </p>
<p>Am I just not looking at good data?</p>