These are all interesting questions!
Your argument (correct me if I am wrong) is that black people are more violent/commit more violent crime than other races in the US. But most black people in America aren't immigrants (or at least no more than most Americans are) and in many cases have been there for longer than a lot of white Americans
A few pages back it was clear we were first talking about EU/UK immigration (where immigration from Pakistan is high, and perhaps they bring some unwanted aspects of their culture. Rwanda was a place where ordinary people took machetes to hack apart their neighbors).
But we had digressed into this topic, yes. Of course what we call ‘foundational black Americans’ are totally American. They have a far higher crime rate than any other demographic, and yes, we should try to correct that for everyone’s safety (and because most crime is intraracial, it affects the safety of the black community as well).
If white American men are committing crimes because they are disenfranchised, surely that could also be the reason that black American men are committing crimes?
Idk I think it is fair to say different groups face different challenges. I mentioned that black women have very high murder rates. Yet that is mostly due to her having a violent male in the home. I don’t have the source rn, but I had read that black women had much lower homicides rates when mass incarceration was at its peak—their violence was very often a response to a violent male in her presence.
White women will probably have higher rates of homicides too, if the recent school shooting incidents are any indication. White girls who trans themselves and inject testosterone may act on violent impulses. This will eventually show up, I suspect.
Regardless, the "culture" that forments the violence will be an American one not an African, European or Asian one
No but certain patterns by race/ethnic group and sex will be evidence and it does no good to deny this.
Actually by your logic, since the violent crime rate is so much higher in America (for all races) than anywhere in Europe we should be very wary of American immigrants importing their "violent cultures" into Albions shores (I don't really think this, my American neighbours are lovely)
Well you’ve every right not to if we are too violent.
In fact, US servicemen have caused a LOT of trouble in Okinawa. There was one horrific gangrape back in the 90s and it periodically happens since then.
And they’ve tried to lobby the Japanese government to shut down or move the bases. I can absolutely understand why they don’t want American servicemen near them.
They will be very demographically different to the Americans you know irl. They will be largely young men, drawn from lower socioeconomic classes (not incidentally a lot of the rapists were of African American background, which was another huge issue in the whole dispute. In the 90s incident, American military spokespeople had unwisely accused the Japanese of being racist towards blacks before the evidence became very overwhelming)
Outsiders won’t understand it, but there is yet another layer of complication: Okinawa was obliterated during WW2, they hold some resentment towards their ‘fellow’ Japanese for ‘sacrificing their islands’ in the defense of Japan, and that they were sacrificed because they are not seen as ‘really Japanese’. The history of Okinawa is fascinating but very complicated as far as their identity goes.
Sticking a huge number of US military bases in Okinawa is seen as yet another affront they must suffer.