Even before WW2, the Edo period in Japanese history was pretty much the most peaceful time period any nation has ever experienced in all of human history. I mean they went 200 years without a single war. Not even a small one. What other country can say that?Tsar wrote: ↑November 17th, 2022, 1:47 amI agree with @Outcast9428 that the crime rate in Russia is mostly because of environmental factors.Outcast9428 wrote: ↑November 16th, 2022, 8:57 pm@Lucas88
I’m not the one grasping at straws… I mean you are trying to make the argument that a race that has extremely low violent crime levels in virtually every country they are apart of is just as violent as a race that seems to leave a giant trail of destruction everywhere they go. Just because the crime rates are not exactly the same in every case doesn’t mean there aren’t extremely strong correlations. Being more successful at civilizing your population is making them less violent on a biological basis. Dogs are much less violent then wolves. Certain breeds of dogs are much less violent then other breeds. Yes the way they were raised certainly matters a lot but a wolf will not be truly peaceful no matter what you do whereas dogs that are aggressive, 90% of the time were abused. The same applies to human beings. Environment certainly does shape us but the mold we begin with matters a lot.
Yes soldiers who aren’t that violent may have died too but it’s pretty much guaranteed that all of the most violent people would have joined the military at that time period. And most of the destruction caused in society is caused by an incredibly small group of people anyway. You don’t need many of them to die in order to dramatically change a country.
The United States does not have a similar racial makeup to Europe and you know that. We all know which group is responsible for making our homicide rate 6.3 despite only being 13% of the population. If it was just Whites in America our homicide rate would be the same as European countries are. American Blacks on the other hand commit homicides at a similar level to Blacks in South Africa.
Yes, given that the Philippines is the only country in Asia that doesn’t have a low rate of violent crime and happens to be the only country we have talked about that isn’t pure Asian, I do think the Spanish admixture has something to do with it. Even then though, the Philippines crime rate is not outrageously high. It’s just high for an Asian country.
Russia’s and Ukraine’s people got raped to smithereens at the beginning of the century between the Cheka, the atrocities in WW2, and later the KGB. The rest of Europe did not endure the brunt of the Soviet Union’s crimes the way Russia and Ukraine did.
Crime is 50% genetic and 50% environmental.
Ah yes the whole correlation does not equal causation line. I have never seen someone make that argument and it not be a complete bullshit way to dismiss undeniable patterns.
In my head as soon as someone makes the correlation does not equal causation argument, I know they have lost and are just trying to whip out a revival card.
Russia has had a lot of terrible events since the Bolshevik (Jew) Revolution (coup d'etat). Poverty, lack of opportunity (since the end of the USSR), Jews (the most criminal and evil race anywhere), and the West always trying to undermine Russia.
People who often do crime are people who are poor or pack opportunity.
Africans do the most violent crime but Jews are the most criminal.
Also, Japan and some Asian nations are extremely harsh. It's also more collective. Most have more opportunity. Men in most nations are more able to get a girlfriend. In Japan, it's often shameful for parents if their child is homeless or poor, so they'll get them a place, or children live with parents.
Are Asian nations genuinely less criminal? I don't think so if it's on a genetic level.
North Korea is still like a typical Asian society and China to some level. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are American vassal states. They had the warrior spirit temporarily weakened because of American neocolonialism.
Vietnam resisted and is another good example of the warrior spirit.
Japan chose to surrender and could surrender in WW2 because everyone respected the Emperor and Japanese culture emphasized honor. America also wanted to avoid a bloody war because Japanese soldiers and American soldiers would have been slaughtered. The Japanese would fight without retreating and that made them dangerous opponents. Both sides decided to end the war and part of it was because America was willing to let the Emperor live and keep his royal title and some level of authority, but an absolute monarchy became a constitutional monarchy and America wrote that constitution, which is actually better than America's own constitution in terms of free elections and other important things. The opportunity that Japan had is why they've been able to avoid having a high crime rate.
The factors for less crime are more about having opportunity and a good environment, more than genetic factors and learned through nurture.
Genetics can decrease probability because of racial and ethnic variations, and individual variations, but environmental factors and having good opportunity is what ultimately decides whether people will commit crime or not.
Genetic factors tend to play more of a role then environmental factors do. Look at White Americans who have every reason imaginable to start stringing up the Democrats by their necks yet still won’t do it. If the Republicans had done half the shit to the Blacks that was done to us by the Democrats they would have started a war.
Blacks in America have all the opportunity in the world because we bend over backwards to try and make them successful even when they don’t deserve it but they still commit outrageous amounts of crime. You saw that chart showing that the poorest Whites and Asians commit not just less, but significantly less crime then the richest Blacks do.