east coast wrote:
Lots of reasons, some of them uncomfortable truths:
1. Very homogenous societies. All else being equal, homogenous societies are happierand safer. Very low income inequality as well, meaning poverty is less likely to drive crime.
2. East Asians, on average, have the highest IQ of on any ethnic group of people in the world. Higher group IQ is inversely correlated to violent crime.
3. No guns, or lack of gun culture.
4. Very small groups of "certain" people who demonstrate high capacity for violence in other parts of the world.
STOP talking about homogeneous societies shiit!!
The country (in SE Asia) I come from, and Singapore (to give another example), are not homogeneous and still have very low crime rates.
It is true that our countries in Asia do/did not have gun culture ( or violence culture) even when our population was not aging a couple of decades ago.
It is rather mind bugling that my American friends always think the US is a very "safe" place without realizing that the criminal rates in many of the American cities/counties, including the one I'm residing in, are horrifying to those of us from Asia. My family is always very concerned about my safety every time they read about a gun violence on the news. I don't and won't tell them that there's gun violence news in the small city I live pretty much every week.