Another terrible race motivated attack.

[Sarmatian]

Looking more closely I realised they put whites and south-americans in the same group.... So counting purely westerners, the numbers would actually be even more condemning for the blacks, then?

And if we count only those truly of Aryan race, the numbers would be even more condemning.

[Kadagar_AV]

And if we count only those truly of Aryan race, the numbers would be even more condemning.

True...

A Scandinavian economist once said to Milton Friedman, ‘In Scandinavia, we have no poverty’. Milton Friedman replied, ‘That’s interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty, either’. Indeed, the poverty rate for Americans with Swedish ancestry is only 6.7 per cent: half the US average (US Census).

The 4.4 million or so Americans with Swedish origins are considerably richer than average Americans, as are other immigrant groups from Scandinavia. If Americans with Swedish ancestry were to form their own country, their per capita GDP would be $56,900, more than $10,000 above the income of the average American.

It should be noted that those Swedes who migrated to the USA, predominately in the nineteenth century, were anything but the elite. Rather, it was often those escaping poverty and famine.


I see people from Spain as culturally being rather close to me... But in the US, if I understood it right, "hispanics" are of south american lineage?



I must honestly say I'm not very concerned with South Americans though... I can only speak from those I have met, and those immigrants I have seen in Sweden. And they are as a rule hard working family oriented people. Some macho culture, but I can live with that.


It's really only Arabs and Blacks I see as problematic... I wouldn't mind living for a while in a "South American" area here in town... I sure as hell wouldn't want to live with the arabs or blacks though.

[rory_20_uk]

I would not like to live in the Projects regardless if the locals were black / white / Asian / other.

I would be happy living in a wealthy gated community of the locals were black / white / Asian / other.

I'm pretty colour blind when I'm being robbed / stabbed / shot. America has managed to ensure that the inequalities of the 1800/1900's have not been rectified and so yes the odds ratio of danger can be stratified by race but frankly nurture has a large part to play.

[Fragony]

I would not like to live in the Projects regardless if the locals were black / white / Asian / other.

I would be happy living in a wealthy gated community of the locals were black / white / Asian / other.

I'm pretty colour blind when I'm being robbed / stabbed / shot. America has managed to ensure that the inequalities of the 1800/1900's have not been rectified and so yes the odds ratio of danger can be stratified by race but frankly nurture has a large part to play.

You are more likely to get robbed/stabbed/shot though, arabs and blacks are always on the top of the list no matter the circumstances.

[Husar]

You are more likely to get robbed/stabbed/shot though, arabs and blacks are always on the top of the list no matter the circumstances.

How many rich arabs and blacks have been arrested for these things in western countries lately?

[Fragony]

How many rich arabs and blacks have been arrested for these things in western countries lately?

None as far as I know. I know what you are trying to say, but my clothes aren't nearly as expensive. I got a few Armani-shirts and Prada-shoes but I don't wear these all the time. For some it's just a lifestyle.Grab what you can and get what you want.

[Husar]

None as far as I know. I know what you are trying to say, but my clothes aren't nearly as expensive. I got a few Armani-shirts and Prada-shoes but I don't wear these all the time. For some it's just a lifestyle.Grab what you can and get what you want.

I was trying to say that if the problem is inherent for blacks and arabs, as some seem to say, how come that only the poor ones seem to end up in jail while the rich ones don't? Are the rich ones not really arab/black or what? Aren't a whole lot of the white people in jails also poor? So the one thing that most criminals have in common is that they're not from the gated communities for rich people and yet some want to think it's a race thing.

At the point where you say they are poor because the whites won't give them jobs and the whites won't give them jobs because so many of them are criminals, you just turned it into a self-fulfilling prophecy/vicious circle that originated with the racism of the past which was responsible for pretty much all of them starting out poor in the first place.