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"Civility" is learned behavior, and an unending history of government-imposed racial and economic segregation is bound to result in a gap in learned behaviors.
by natrius 10y ago
"Civility" is learned behavior, and an unending history of government-imposed racial and economic segregation is bound to result in a gap in learned behaviors. Maybe we should stop allowing our governments to create exclusive neighborhoods for the wealthy. The market has no power to exclude cheaper homes.
- ChrisNorstrom 10y agoUh, we're from eastern Europe where everyone in the country is the same ethnicity. We had the extreme rich and the extreme poor and we all behaved. Money and civility are two different things. In fact we had communism which followed and really kept people out of opportunities. We didn't walk around acting like rednecks or gangsters. Same as in the USA 50 years ago. When blacks and whites used different bathrooms, and racial segregation was at its peak, still both black and white communities dressed well to go to church, authority was more respected, the family stayed in tact, sex before marriage was taboo. Now despite "integration and desegregation" culture and morality has rotted out society. Long story short, I don't agree with "government is the problem, government is the solution". Low culture and standards are the problem. High culture and standards are the solution. Regardless of neighborhood or income.
- natrius 10y agoAmerica is not integrated. I agree culture and standards are the solution. Those do not spread easily in segregated societies.
- ChrisNorstrom 10y agoCulture & standards were higher during segregation, we are more integrated than we were in the past and the culture rot is even worse. Your narrative that race and separation has everything to do with it is incorrect.