Do places like China and Cuba have better spaces for young people and people in general to hang out?

  • RION [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I was just talking to my therapist about this. Also ties into this excerpt I saved from a Hexbear discussion years ago

    "As external conditions change, it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions ; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This is why so many people meet their lifelong friends in college, she added."

    Comes from this article, will edit with a proper archive link if I can later https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html

    • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Well shit I don’t think I’ve ever had an unplanned interaction with someone (more than once of course)