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RE: Culture and Race are not the same thing: Could it be culture that is the cause for elevated police encounter fatalities rather than race? Is BLM aiming for the wrong causation?

in #racism8 years ago (edited)

I would also expect culture to be a component of causation. What I would like to see is the overlay of shooting locations and poverty levels globally. This could also help cast more light on cultural differences as a causal factor.My gut suspects that poverty is what gives rise to organized crime and sets a vicious circle into motion. I would be curious if that held for other organized crime groups, like the Italian mafia etc. Great food for thought!

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That could be as well. Yet I've also lived in poverty quite a few times in my life and didn't really see that happening. I didn't live in places of poverty that also had big drug problems, perhaps that is the combination?

Actually when I was in poverty it was pretty rural locations. So poverty plus population density would make some sense in that regard.

Good point. This could make culture, AND race less of a factor.