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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Samoa?

Were they sitting on people?

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Op thought Samoa was in Africa.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's really interesting how immigrants in the US assimilate into the culture so much better than other countries and commit fewer crimes than the general population. Why is it that on other countries you get these extremist cultural enclaves?

Edit: just thinking about it now, these people were CLEARLY groomers which is weirdly relevant for today. Yahoo answers was a place you could just go ask questions on any topic. It was user regulated for the most part. Your post was required to be a question followed by relevant answers. The users would vote on best answer and the asker would choose the best answer. I would often post on a section helping kids with chemistry homework. I ended up finding the gay section and at the time it was filled with depressed teenagers asking what to do about homophobic parents etc. There was a group of people there who were always trying to convince people that they were trans.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's really interesting how immigrants in the US assimilate into the culture so much better than other countries and commit fewer crimes than the general population. Why is it that on other countries you get these extremist cultural enclaves?

Armchair guess? America pushes assimilation (the oft-referenced "melting pot") of immigrants as a core aspect of its society; if you want that American Dream (whatever that term means for you) then you need to actually be American.

As for behaving better? Second armchair guess is the prevalence of guns and the perception that Americans are trigger-happy maniacs. Based on stuff I've read, usually in the context of how much safer their countries are thanks to the government taking away everything remotely dangerous (mostly to the government itself, I occasionally think), people overseas sometimes leave me with the impression that they believe America to be a continent-spanning, open-air shooting gallery.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

then you need to actually be American

That's actually interesting because in the US we actually accept people as American no matter what our race or ethnicity is.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think I wasn't clear enough, I was talking about the perception from the immigrant's end of things.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right but I think the fact that Americans perceive immigrants as American also influences the immigrants. Chicken and egg scenario or a positive feedback loop. Other countries seem to have a negative feedback loop. Japan is racist as fuck but their culture also doesn't give a shit about how that looks. In Europe people don't assimilate but they are stuck in the performatively woke hysteria so they elevate extremist aspects of the minority culture.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Is this data from Sweden?

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's from the Australian Bureau of statistics so I'd assume it's from Aus haha.

[–]cephyrious 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Population in Victoria" is another AU hint.

[–]makesyoudownvote 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why would the AUSTRALIAN Bureau of Statistics be publishing data on Sweden?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't see the origin.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Am pleasantly surprised at how low the rates are from UK&Irish people while also kind of shocked by the high rate of crimes committed by Kiwis.

[–]makesyoudownvote 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's the Maoris.

They make up only 16.5% of the NZ population, yet are the offenders in 45% of violent crimes.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1048576/new-zealand-share-of-assault-offenders-by-ethnicity/

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A friend taught for a few years in NZ and on a few Pacific islands and said that there was a terrible culture of domestic violence. He told me of working with this “lovely bloke” and being invited round to his house for dinner only to witness the “lovely bloke” backhand his wife over a minor mishap with dinner or some shit. He said in one place it was fairly common to see multiple boys in his class at any one time with black eyes from being beaten by their dads, and that that was just considered “normal”.

[–]Cass 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

wow they're worse than blacks

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Can’t you get weirdly skewed graphs like that if you have a very small sample size and the sampled people are utter cunts?

There might just be 250 Sudanese in Victoria and 25 of them were involved in violent crime.

[–]TurkishCoffee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can. The rate shown would be more meaningful if the other tab of raw numbers was shown. The fact kenya and somalia show up in rates, but not unique offenders seems to lend towards small numbers of people possibly. (ie easy for a couple people to commit a handful of crimes each and skew the rates interestingly