1. I would say it's cultural. They seem to adhere to a culture that glorifies breaking the law. Look at Hip Hop culture.
2. You appear to be a cultural relativist. Not all cultures are the same.
Thought experiment: If you were president of a country and you had to allow 10,000 immigrants a year, and you could choose which country they were from, would you choose 10,000 immigrants from Congo/Mexico/Pakistan? Or 10,000 immigrants from Japan/Sweden/Switzerland?
Which immigrants do you think would be more likely to peacefully integrate? Create safe streets and harmonise with American culture?
3. I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean here.
4. Some demographics commit more crime than others. And people recognise patterns and certain demographics are going to develop a bad reputation. Is this unfair on peaceful, law-abiding individuals from that demographic? Yes, sure, it is. But, it is human nature to recognise patterns and make judgements on threats to their safety.
Thought experiment: You are walking home alone at midnight down a dark alley and there are two pathways to your house. One pathway has a group of four 20-35 year old black men, wearing hip hop clothing. The other pathway has a single 50-65-year-old Asian lady with her shopping. Which path do you think is the safest to walk down?
You’re still making black culture hip hop culture. If you don’t like the racism charge stop mixing the two up. Hip hop culture is way beyond black people in this country and even then I think you’re really talking about a culture of gangsterism. Not every black person adheres to the values of hip hop culture the same way not every white person adheres to the values of big business corporatism culture. If you can’t see a differentiation...racist.
Culture relativist is a term I’ve never used to describe myself. I can see that even if 99% of a group adheres to a set of norms it’s still fuckin dumb to pretend that all of them do and are incapable of doing otherwise.
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Thought experiment one
I had a roommate from Pakistan. He fit into standard white culture better than me. Every kid straight from Africa in my high school class was in ap an gifted classes and had no problems acclimating to American culture including the kid from the Congo. I’m from Miami, anybody from any Spanish country fits in fine where I live.
But I’ll still go the route you want with your thought experiment. Any culture that already speaks English will acclimate easier. So Switzerland and Sweden for sure. Japan? I don’t see how they’re different than your other block of countries. I don’t know many Japanese people. I’ll take the Mexicans if we’re going solely on fear of the unknown here.
And none of it really matters cause that second generation is gonna be almost indistinguishable from Americans twenty years down the line. Irish, Italian yadda yadda.
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Some demographics do commit crime at higher rates. Those who idolize gang culture, jihadists, white nationalists. Again If you can only make distinctions based on “blacks” “Muslims” don’t be surprised that your called a racist. And it sucks to be one of th ones that doesn’t fit the demographic and get lumped in.
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Thought experiment 2
Gotta admit, this is what made me respond to you, it’s laughably dumb.
The Asian lady is the safe route. But I have one for you.
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MY THOUGHT EXPERIMENT TO YOU
Now there is a black woman she is 50 and well dressed on the north side of the side walk.
On the south side are 4 young white men, shaved heads, neck tattoos and wife beaters cursing loudly and gesturing aggressively with each other. Which side is the safe side?
ROUND 2
How bout two of those same young white men on the south sidewalk and 4 business attired young black men on the north sidewalk chatting amicably?
Apples to apples please.