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I've heard this before and it makes sense. Our view of the frontier west was mostly shaped by Hollywood and even during the time it was dramatized.
I recently saw a video that is supposed to be of Virgil Earp the nephew of Wyatt Earp talking about how much more honest the people were.
My takeaway which is an over-simplification is that when we go back to the earlier days of the US you had a more cohesive moral culture largely based on the influence of Christianity. Not to say that people were perfect or good Christians but even when you have a plurality of people that hold to a moral virtue system this has affects on those that do not follow that moral system from the place of an actual belief in God.
The problems with multiculturalism are numerous. When people do not have a general agreed upon view of morality democracy isn't gonna fix that. Nor is any other system. Monopoly government doesn't fix this. Any governance system works better when you have a people with more commonly held worldviews to each other.
There is a value in diversity and general curiosity about other cultures but this in and of itself isn't a moral ethic. Even a system as terrible as socialism will work better on a small scale with a more monolithic culture. It will fail as it did in Sweden but social welfare programs work better in a monolithic culture.
42 sats \ 15 replies \ @kepford 8h
I know this will trigger a lot of people that hate Christianity or maybe more fairly have had very bad experiences with "Christians" but I think you can point to Japan as well. Many of the issues we see in our society seem to be less of an issue there.
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I'd be curious for a deep dive on why violent crime is so rare in East Asian cultures.
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42 sats \ 9 replies \ @kepford 7h
I assume you aren't including war...
Honor based culture has to be a factor.
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Yeah, basically just individual level assaults and murders are extremely rare.
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42 sats \ 7 replies \ @kepford 6h
I think it would easier to make a case for the culture vs genetics. I will put it this was. Where I live gangs with tons of violence are very common with descendants of these nations. Just a couple generations removed from their home cultures. I'd need to see some pretty hard evidence
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42 sats \ 6 replies \ @kepford 6h
on the other hand gangs are common in honor cultures.
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One of my Chinese friends thinks East Asians just more naturally comply with authorities.
In a gang context, the gang becomes the authority over the "official" government.
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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 4h
And governments are just gangs that have been accepted by a critical mass as official.
Is genetic predisposition an allowable explanation?
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I'll allow it, if you think it's supportable. Please elaborate.
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I don't have any evidence, I just wanted to know if that's an allowable conclusion, should the evidence lead there.
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It's a fairly obvious hypothesis to entertain.
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