[VowJoyday]

Gang muggings and beatings during 2006 Paris student protest

[gnusnich]

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[WelcomeMe]

Since I've lived in both a suburb with a large multicultural mix and a minor community with very few immigrants I can say I would never choose a larger multicultural mix, when I lived in the smaller community I could honestly leave my door unlocked without anything happening. If I would do that in the suburb my neighbors would go in and take everything. Something is clearly wrong when you can't even trust your neighbors.

EDIT: The problem is more cultural than biological. Failed integration politics while just shipping them in is the real problem. If you take them in less at a time and make sure they get integrated before you ship in the next group things would be so much easier...and do not take in too many, just so you can fill the quota the country needs to sustain.

[ZanazaKar]

Since I've lived in both a suburb with a large multicultural mix and a minor community with very few immigrants I can say I would never choose a larger multicultural mix, when I lived in the smaller community I could honestly leave my door unlocked without anything happening. If I would do that in the suburb my neighbors would go in and take everything. Something is clearly wrong when you can't even trust your neighbors.

EDIT: The problem is more cultural than biological. Failed integration politics while just shipping them in is the real problem. If you take them in less at a time and make sure they get integrated before you ship in the next group things would be so much easier...and do not take in too many, just so you can fill the quota the country needs to sustain.

You are right. I had a friend from Botswana. I remember asking him about crime. He looked at me odd and said "we don't have much". I said "no one steals...like a bike or something..." He said..."no that is very strange, if someone did that we would kill them" I think he was serious.

But anyway, small mono-ethnic places are usually safe, because everyone has the same morality, same idea, people know each other, trust each other, speak the same language, there is no anonymity, etc.

This is a trade off I agree. Swiss people in many areas still leave their doors unlocked during the day, but then again there are areas in New Jersey in America that do that as well...even in 2010...those places exist in America, but are hard to find, usually a very rural area.

[molaunterbizone]

This is what happens to you if you try to rob someone in Wenzhou, China

[Liabmeasez]

Europeans, generally speaking, and not including Brits or Irish, are less confrontational than North Americans. This is just a cultural difference. In many ways this is good but in some ways it is bad. I don't hear cases of "road rage" in Europe like I do i the U.S. But then again I live in the NYC metro area (I was in NYC today) which is a high stress area. It's bad because they're more likely to take crap from immigrants, or their children, from a different cultural background. I'm speaking generally, of course.

Funny thing, I just thought about it now, I was in Pennsylvania last week and I commented on how uncomfortable I felt because everyone seemed so nice. It was really weird. What it is even funnier is I preferred being in NJ despite never feeling comfortable but it's a different type of discomfort; it's what I'm used to. The only place I feel actually comfortable is when I'm vacationing in Galciia, Spain because, as I said in a different thread, everyone seems indifferent, but not in the weird NYC type of way. Everyone's about their business and they're neither annoying you with their cheerful attitude or being confrontational.

Here's an example of cultural differences.

Check this out: Markus Naslund, a Swedish hockey player, getting beat up by a Canadian born player and never trying to defending himself.


Bobby Nystrom, a Swedish born hockey player raised in Canada.


When Swedish players entered to the league the common insult directed towards them was "chickenshit Swedes." For you people not familiar with North American insults being called a 'chicken shit' is the same as being called a coward. The vast majority of North American players don't fight often but they wouldn't have done what Naslund did. Any other player would have at least grabbed Cunneyworth and neutralize him, even it meant getting beat up. If you don't neutralize him he's going to team up one of teammates, which did happen in that video.

European players, Scandanavians and Russians with some czechs and Slovaks, aren't as bad in this regard when they first came into the league.

EDIT: Another example of cultural influence. Paek, a Korean-Canadian, gets involved with Cunneyworth at the bench in the first video. Not your typical passive Asian.

[Qutlsilh]

Any European country can if they wish, to kick out all the immigrants, parasite. The problem are institutions like UN and the America, still having influence on whole Western Europe.

[Stivenslivakovishhhs]

Four or so black kids would not enter a British pub and smash it up and then walk out to tell the tale. Happy slappers usually run away when the victims are adults.

[Jadykeery]

Papa is sooo right. Being raised in Canada, when I first spent time back in Romania it was really hard to get used to the way that culture deals with aggression. Romanians, like most latins, are very fiery, but will almost never take it to blows...so whenever I got mouthed off, I was used to taking a swing at whomever--even if it meant getting beat-up--Canadians don't talk about it we just drop-em!

Also, Romanians can't fight....probably because they don't have much experience at it!

Maybe it's just my hockey upbringing? That and other things....

[Fouttysotlalf]

So Romanians are "weaker" than Canadians?? Well, you learn something new every day.

So I am like your sterotypical Romanian, I'm fiery and can be seen as somewhat aggressive, but I rarely fight, hasn't been in a real fight for years now, so I'm not very used to it, probably because even if I often seem aggressive and too blunt, I haven't met many people who have started a fight, and if they do...well it happened but was some years ago. I do not become aggressive when I'm drunk while many other people here instead seem to get more violent instead when they drink. That might play apart.

I would never have acted like Näslund however, I don't know how to react in such a fight since I'm not used to it, probably I would be confused and defend myself as much as I could and just think about beat the other person as quick as possible even if I hurt him.

This music video with cool boys sucks btw.

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This is what happens to you if you try to rob someone in Wenzhou, China

[purchasviagra]

Yeah, this shit would not happen here. Too many people get pissed off and pack heat. This is the United States of America, home of the NRA, where about 1/3rd of people have guns.

Note: Be more confrontational and violent.