It's not absolute poverty. It's income inequality. Societies where almost everyone is poor but there isn't a huge Gini coefficient tend to be safer than societies with a medium median income but a very high Gini coefficient.

Also I'm not sure if being non-white has anything to do with it. East Asian nations tend to be less violent than Western ones once you control for income and education.

No it's not. It's not significantly different from NH, ME, or Western MA.

People get too worked up about guns on both sides.

Guns by themselves don't cause crime.

Income inequality (not absolute poverty), cultural values, age and gender demographics, family structure, and parenting styles are the primary drivers of crime.

A society with a lot of family breakdown will have a lot of crime.

A nation with a medium median income and a high Gini coefficient will have more crime than a nation with a low median income and a low Gini coefficient. This is why Latin American nations tend to have higher murder rates than Central African ones.

You can arm every single 60+ year old woman on earth and they will still have a lower rate of crime than if you took away guns from every 20-39 year old man.

East Asian nations tend to have lower rates of crime than Western, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American nations of the same median income and education level.

Fun fact: Essex county is the only place in Vermont where the median wage earner can afford the median house.

I feel bad for Minnesotans. Most are intelligent and nice people. But they have the ill fortune of being surrounded by North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. I feel bad for any inland state full of intelligent and nice people, such as Illinois, New Mexico, and Colorado.

It would be safer if it weren't in America.

Maine should grow a pair and go back to the old flag.

The difference is that Native Alaskans are numerous enough to have a significant amount of political clout.

No it isn't. Maine's old flag had an anchor at the base of the tree plus a star in a corner.

A green pine tree and nothing else.

It would be like the flag of Japan but better. Who the heck puts an umeboshi on a flag?

Economics should really be in the same bracket as business. That bracket should be called "commerce". I studied both subjects and they have more in common with each other than economics does with politics, sociology, education, anthropology, theology, etc.

Social sciences, liberal arts, and humanities should be their own bracket. Visual and performing arts should be their own bracket.

Imo, the brackets should be:

1. STEM
2. Commerce, which comprises economics, business administration, accounting, marketing, HR, operations management, finance, etc.
3. Liberal arts, humanities, and social sciences. This would include history, geography, politics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, education, communications, foreign language, english literature, etc.
4. Visual and performing arts

In Northern European and England-offshoot nations, grandparents mostly don't help with raising kids.

If most people dying are 60+ it's not natural selection. Parents of minors are mostly in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.

How does having Crohn's help you survive the plague?

The dude's against same-sex marriage yet is in an interracial marriage. Class A hypocrite.

/r/msaeachubaets

There are many Uncle Tom types out there. Allan Fung is one of them.

He thinks that good behaviour and kissing ass of the white establishment will earn him respect from white Americans. It won't.

Allan Fung doesn't understand that having a decent income doesn't give him white privilege. Being educated doesn't give him white privilege. Obeying the law doesn't give him white privilege.

Fung is one of those people who thinks that rich straight white Christians will give him a few breadcrumbs if he works 80 hrs a week, earns a Phd, and obeys the law while the dumbest and most violent white people go around murdering others and get free Burger King.

Yep. The unspoken knowledge. When you are raised around high status people, you benefit from their connections, from learning upper class sociolect, mannerisms, style of dress, hobbies, even gait.

Me and my friend noticed years ago that poor men, unlike all other people in society, tend to swagger instead of walk. If you gave a poor man a good haircut and nice clothing that fit, you would still be able to tell he's poor because of his gait.

These people are walking, talking reasons for public universities to be closed to people with IQs below 115. I don't care who the private universities admit as long as they don't take any taxpayer money.