Why are there so few murders per capita in East Asian countries?

Aging population, monoculturalism.

They're smarter and they all look alike. They have a greater sense of community.

I would be shocked to learn that any numbers being reported on murders in East Asian countries is anywhere near accurate. I have literally seen people murdered in Asia and I'm pretty sure nobody reported anything.

There is a great deal of homicide in China from abortion and infanticide.

adsfsdf wrote:

There is a great deal of homicide in China from abortion and infanticide.

You seem to be implying that the amount of abortion and infanticide happening in China causes people to go out and commit more homicide.

There is a school of thought that homogeneous cultures have this trait. Scandinavia has been similar, but obviously is changing with immigration in places like Sweden. Lower rates of wealth disparity might also help.

Is the implication that because of homogeneity, murder is less likely, that the similarities between people prevent them from killing each other?

Or, that we are less likely to murder someone the more they resemble us?

Iceland is also very homogeneous and probably one of the safest places in the world. From 2000-2012, only 25 murders. Some of those years (2003,2006,2008) there were no murders at all.

Take out 2 groups in this country responsible for most murders and see how quickly the number drops.

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.

afluenza wrote:

No killer cops and no white murderers with unfettered access to guns.

You do know that even though the US has almost twice as many guns per capita than any other country in the world, it only ranks 90th or so in terms of murder rate? High rates of gun ownership do not necessarily equal high homicide rates. In fact many areas of the world with low rates of gun ownership (much lower than most of Europe) such as South America, Central America and Africa, have the highest homicide rates in the world (a gun owner in El Salvador is 345 times more likely to kill someone than a gun owner in the US).

As far as it being a white issue, most other races (other than Asians) have much higher homicide rates than whites despite lower rates of gun ownership [blacks are 7 times more likely than whites to murder someone in spite of the fact that they have a much lower rate of gun ownership (18% vs 42%)]. Get your facts straight before you post again.

179L wrote:

They're smarter and they all look alike. They have a greater sense of community.

Indeed. Homogenous culture. Obedience instilled early. The downsides? Zero creativity, innovation. I'll take our horror show any day and I have traveled extensively. America's brightness cannot be cancelled out by her darkness. Ever.

--First Generation American

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.

If gun culture is not to blame for the violent crime in this country endured, I can only say that the Americans are inherently a violent people.

Wow. Do you understand the difference between correlation and causation? How about necessary vs. sufficient conditions? Please state your IQ before I engage you any further.

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STOP talking about homogeneous societies shiit!!

Why? Sincere question.

Red and white wrote:

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STOP talking about homogeneous societies shiit!!

Why? Sincere question.

Read past the 1st line, please.

If the Japenese authorities can't identify a perpetrator, they will usually sweep crimes under the rug and rename them. There was a big case in Japan a few years ago where there was an obvious murder but the authorities called it suicide because it was likely that it would have been unsolved.

It's about saving face, the eastern cultures have always been that way; which means many crimes go under-reported as crimes. The Japanese justice system is broken.

more under the surface wrote:

If the Japenese authorities can't identify a perpetrator, they will usually sweep crimes under the rug and rename them. There was a big case in Japan a few years ago where there was an obvious murder but the authorities called it suicide because it was likely that it would have been unsolved.

It's about saving face, the eastern cultures have always been that way; which means many crimes go under-reported as crimes. The Japanese justice system is broken.

Right, I'm sure the Tokyo police are sweeping hundreds of murders under the rug. #Fail