The most common advice you will receive in my place, if this question is asked, is to become a teacher at a High School. Depending on where you are from, this may not be a bad choice.
A few days ago, all our Graph API calls used to return errors. The error wasn't very verbose. It was a JSON object saying "Something was wrong". After pulling our hairs for some time, we realized that they removed the trailing slashes from the URLs. They are back with both forms(with and without trailing slash) now. But, it really wasted a lot of time because the error wasn't clear and the code needed changes.
I once asked on #python why "?" is not allowed in names of identifiers. People responded by saying that Python prefered cleaner names. So, it was just an aesthetic preference.
I am constantly trying to improve my Python and JavaScript. I haven't programmed in C/C++ for a very long time. I think I will learn some Scheme by the time I finish reading SICP and some other texts. I am also learning Common Lisp when I am away from the Internet.
Fluency generally includes speech fluency. I haven't met a person who speaks in code. With all the abstraction, looping going around, it is difficult to speak in one of the programming languages.
As you have mentioned Python, let met tell you that the Python community on SO is awesome. People generally upvote all the good/correct answers to a question. This will not only appreciate their good work, but also make them answer more questions. In recent days, the percentage of questions on HTML/CSS, jQuery has increased greatly. The questions related to general purpose programming languages tend to be more unique than HTML/CSS.
I came across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan when I was reading about Japan on Wikipedia. It led me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shame_society which says that the high suicide rate may be attributed to the societal structure. These societies set high standards for individuals and that may result in high performance from the society but, at the same time, may depress under-achievers to such an extent that people commit suicides.
I've heard people bring up the argument of suicides when this subject comes up before. But I don't think it is a valid point because you are cherry picking statistics.
If you want to make a more fair comparison you would need to look at a variety of factors to get a overall picture.
Would it be fair for an Asian to look at the USA and pick something like school shootings ( or drug use, or criminality, or teen pregnancy - which ever stat makes the USA look worse) to attack the entire American style of parenting? Obviously it wouldn't be.
