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> hmm, when I hear "Eastern Europe", I don't think "ethnically homogeneous", I think "substantial Roma minority". What first comes to our minds doesn't constit
by acituan 6y ago
> hmm, when I hear "Eastern Europe", I don't think "ethnically homogeneous", I think "substantial Roma minority".
What first comes to our minds doesn't constitute data, and is prone to create availability bias.
Percentage of Roma for several Eastern European countries are; Bosnia And Herzegovina: 0.36% (2013), Serbia 2.1% (2011), Macedonia 2.7% (2002), Albania 0.6% (2011), Croatia 0.4% (2011), Ukraine 0.3% (2001). There is no substantial Roma minority, in fact Roma is usually one of the smallest among other minorities in these countries.
- samatman 6y agoFor several more: Bulgaria: 10.3%, Romania: 8.3%, Slovakia, 9.2%. This same source has Serbia's percentage as 8.2%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people#Contemporary_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people#Contemporary_iss... I would call these numbers substantial. Your mileage may vary.
- acituan 6y agoI’ve picked my numbers from each of these countries’ censuses, whereas your source claims an estimate, and I cannot verify their methodology because source of that table takes me to an unrelated telegraph.co.uk article (likely a bug in the wikipedia article). Either way, if the OPs hypothesis is true, we should see a change in corruption levels with minority percentages. I’m not an expert in Eastern European criminology, but I highly doubt that is the case. There might as well be Eastern European countries with substantial Roma population, for some definition of “substantial”, but that doesn’t change my original point that high cultural homogeniety and high police corruption definiely does co-occur.