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In Brazil the punishment for murder is lesser than many other crimes, leading to people murdering investigators (or in one particularly infamous case, a mayor m
by speeder 11y ago
In Brazil the punishment for murder is lesser than many other crimes, leading to people murdering investigators (or in one particularly infamous case, a mayor murdered two environmental cops that were going to investigate his farm, got convicted, but still got re-elected).
Also firing a gun and not hitting anything also has a harsher punishment than hitting someone, so unless you are a cop that need to draw attention or something, if you need to fire a gun, you need to make sure you will hit someone.
- chaostheory 11y agoThe general culture of the Central and South America is actually pretty similar to China and other Asian countries.
- caio1982 11y agoMultiple citations needed.
- chaostheory 11y agoYou don't need a research paper to see the similarities. Both are low trust societies with a strong focus on a clan mentality needed for protection from the aforementioned low trust society i.e. bribing officials high and low, using family connections to get access to jobs, real food and real medicine; and so on When I think about it, I feel that it's one of the reasons that Asian family ties tend to weaken when they migrate to the West. Societal trust is a lot higher here so there's less need to rely on your family. 关系 is important everywhere, but it's way more important in low trust societies.
- copperx 11y agoDid you mean "general disregard of the law" by "culture"? Because the cultures are light years apart.
- chaostheory 11y agoAre they? Which culture do you feel is more ahead in terms of trust?
- andrewflnr 11y agoThat's a very narrow perspective. There are (possibly literally) uncountably many other dimensions of culture than level of trust in society.