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Looking at the other comments here, there should really be a pithy "law" like Godwin's for the act of comparing the USA to small, wealthy, homogenous countries
by mycologos 6y ago
Looking at the other comments here, there should really be a pithy "law" like Godwin's for the act of comparing the USA to small, wealthy, homogenous countries with harsh immigration policies. I'm not saying it's bad, but boy is it common.
- sandworm101 6y agook. Stick to comparing it to canada: a physically bigger country with higher immigration, slightly lower per-capita earning, more diversity, a similar rate of gun ownership, and a murder rate less than half that of the US. Canada murders per 100,000: 1.8 US: 5.0
- bagacrap 6y agoCanada does not have a larger or more diverse population so the comparison fails on two points. If you compare Minnesota to Canada the murder rates are very similar. So I guess the common thread is the cold weather. /s I think it would be more informative to compare various US states by murder rate to try to find common threads, since the rate varies widely, and also because it seems more practical to make New Mexico more like Idaho than to make it more like Norway.
- sandworm101 6y agoCanada actually has a denser population. Canadian cities are much more sense than average us cities, a relic of a different system of land settlement. Vancouver sits beside total wilderness, but has residential areas as dense as nyc. Canada doesn't have the neverending suburbs that are the norm in the us.
- Infernal 6y agoBy what measure does Canada have more diversity than the US?
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