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I’ve lived in or visited over 20 countries and one striking thing about the U.S. is how little we walk. In almost every city in the U.S. relatively few people
by syops 5y ago
I’ve lived in or visited over 20 countries and one striking thing about the U.S. is how little we walk. In almost every city in the U.S. relatively few people are out and about outside. In some sense we have criminalized walking. It is so rare that in suburban white neighborhoods 4 black kids outside walking will be stopped by cops. We are not a free people.
https://www.illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-criminalization-of-walking/ https://www.illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-cr...
- addicted 5y agoThis is the most remarkable thing about the US as an outsider. Americans are completely dependent on their cars. Which means that children in the US have no freedom at all.
- BoHerfIIIJrEsq 5y ago> Americans are completely dependent on their cars. America is a big place with a lot of different situations. > Which means that children in the US have no freedom at all. This does not follow, and is not true. In America we tend to think of freedom as freedom from various kinds of persecution.
- syops 5y agoConsider the possibility that life in the U.S is abnormal by the standards of the rest of the world and that our view of what it means to be free is distorted.
- BoHerfIIIJrEsq 5y agoDo people from elsewhere continue to want to immigrate to the US? Do you find yourself wanting to immigrate elsewhere?
- syops 5y agoYes to both questions. Neither question is really relevant though. In the hierarchy of needs it’s easier to fill the lower level ones in the U.S. than in El Salvador. People move to the U.S. for ease of meeting needs, to experience the U.S., etc. This doesn’t mean than in comparison to Japan, UK, or Germany that life is freer here. Eight percent of European migrants live in the U.S. and five percent in Kazakhstan. Is this evidence that Kazakhstan is comparable to the U.S? https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/european-immigrants-united-states-2016 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/european-immigrants-...
- 13of40 5y agoThat's something that strikes me every time I come home from Europe and wake up in the (Pacific Northwest) suburbs. The streets are wide, the sidewalks are clean, there are trees all over the place, and not a soul in sight.