High Trust Societies Damaged By Migrants From Low Trust Societies
High-trust societies prosper, and low-trust societies don't...
If a migrant treks to a Western country from Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Somalia, they are steeped in a culture in which social trust is quite low, and are very unlikely to integrate well into Western society.
If they are coming from a Western European country or the United States, they are likely to integrate well...
It is difficult to discuss these issues because there is such a strong overlap between cultural groupings and race, and if you say "Somalis are likelier to commit fraud" than Americans, people immediately jump to race as your motivation for saying so. But, as I can attest, coming from Minnesota, Somalis commit a huge amount of fraud. Our biggest government scandals are Somali fraud cases...
It's the culture, not the race, that matters.*
And the statistics about crime committed by native-born Norwegians and immigrants tell a story we need to hear about migration from low-trust societies. Not only are the migrants from these societies much more likely to commit crimes than Norwegians or Western European migrants (or US migrants), but their children are even worse...
Suppressing discussion about these issues is dividing society, actually increasing racism as people get tired of being bashed over the head for speaking truths, and driving down social trust...
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* Actually, it's fairly obvious that culture is partly a product of race, so race indeed matters.
book: Why Race Matters, by Michael Levin.