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I'd be curious for a deep dive on why violent crime is so rare in East Asian cultures.
I assume you aren't including war...
Honor based culture has to be a factor.
Yeah, basically just individual level assaults and murders are extremely rare.
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
on the other hand gangs are common in honor cultures.
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.
And governments are just gangs that have been accepted by a critical mass as official.
Right. His thought was that East Asians aren't inclined to independently commit violent crimes, but they'll do it when instructed to.
Is genetic predisposition an allowable explanation?
I'll allow it, if you think it's supportable. Please elaborate.
I don't have any evidence, I just wanted to know if that's an allowable conclusion, should the evidence lead there.
It's a fairly obvious hypothesis to entertain.
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.