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What are you pushing back on exactly? These problems are extremely minor compared to the rate of crime and poverty in American cities.
by bathtub365 4y ago
What are you pushing back on exactly? These problems are extremely minor compared to the rate of crime and poverty in American cities.
- closewith 4y agoThat just shows what's important to you. Which is not necessarily what's important to others.
- lozenge 4y agoTreating half the population as undeserving of a career is "extremely minor"?
- mcculley 4y agoI am not convinced that finding "job opportunities and career growth severely limited by the heavily patriarchal culture" is the same as "treating half the population as undeserving of a career".
- Retric 4y agoIn what way are they different? It seems like a different description of the same thing.
- mcculley 4y agoOne is hyperbolic. One can believe that there is some bias against women without believing that they are treated as undeserving of having a career.
- Retric 4y agoOk, I read the description as quite literal not hyperbolic.
- mcculley 4y agoAnd you think they are the same? How much experience do you have with the Japanese job market?
- Retric 4y agoI am not a female in the Japanese job market, but I do have first hand accounts from them. Are you a woman in the Japanese job market?
- mcculley 4y agoI am not a woman in the Japanese job market. I am merely a man trying to understand how "job opportunities and career growth severely limited by the heavily patriarchal culture" is the same as "treating half the population as undeserving of a career". I see "job opportunities and career growth severely limited" for women in many industries in the United States and yet it would be silly to say that many think they are "undeserving of a career". I am skeptical of some claims made about specific industries and cultures being much worse than others.
- Retric 4y agoThe word choice may be the same, but Japan is significantly more extreme than the US. In 2018 21.8% of Medical doctors in Japan where women vs 36.6% in the US and 48.6% in the UK. https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/medical-doctors-by-sex https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-detai... You can find more and less extreme examples in various industries, but there’s a real difference between the two counties.
- mcculley 4y agoDoes this existence of fewer women in a job mean that they are kept out by those who think them “undeserving of a career”? Only 4% of sewage plant operators are female. Is that because they are kept out of the industry?
- saberience 4y ago[flagged]
- unmole 4y ago> America just literally banned abortion This is simply not true. While shootings get a lot of attention, the probability of getting shot is approximately zero.
- fvdessen 4y agoIt’s not zero at all it’s higher than dying from a bike accident
- lemoncookiechip 4y agoWe literally had a mass shooting where 10 died and 10 were injured, today. And the number 1 cause of death in children is gun violence, for the last few years.
- unmole 4y ago> We literally had a mass shooting where 10 died and 10 were injured, today. And? Statistically, every day over a 100 people die in motor vehicle incidents and a further 100 from fall related injuries in America. You're just proving my point. > number 1 cause of death in children is gun violence, Firearm related deaths are not all gun violence. The overwhelming majority of them are accidents.
- Joeri 4y agoJust looked it up: 0.3% lifetime probability of dying by gun assault. Mass shootings are indeed lower at 0.01%.
- asveikau 4y agoThe religious nutters who banned abortion (edit: better put, eroded protections on it) are literally the same people who are trying to get everyone to focus on a severely overstated crime problem, as the grandparent comment did. In fact you can point to Trump for both of these. On crime: He came in with his outdated world view shaped by 1980s New York complaining of "American carnage in our cities" at a time when crime was at a 25 year low. On abortion: Then he filled a few supreme court seats.
- kerpotgh 4y ago[dead]
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoSexism and racism is minor compared to crime and poverty? (Which Japan also has, you just don't see it)
- Longhanks 4y agoKinda yes? I’d rather be discriminated (to some degree) than shot dead.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoYour chances of being shot outside of an inner city ghetto is so small as to be negligible. You've been brainwashed by sensationalist news. Meanwhile there are places in Japan that won't allow non-Japanese to enter.
- asveikau 4y agoI'd say the chances of most people being shot inside an inner city ghetto are also small. But I'm going to guess those complaining about the risk of being shot dead in an American city are unwilling to say the current interpretation of the 2nd amendment is a factor, or that we simply have too many guns.
- lliamander 4y agoThe correlation between gun ownership and gun-related homicides (by state) is (weakly) negative. We are happy to talk about the statistics, they just don't tell the story you want to tell.
- asveikau 4y agoYou're saying that in states with a higher gun ownership rate, there are few (per capita, I hope you mean) gun related homicides. Specifically comparing US states, not the US to another country. But 100% of gun related homicide happens with a gun. I had a funny read of your comment, perhaps you think those happen with "borrowed" guns ... If they only owned those guns outright, they could benefit from your statistic.
- jrochkind1 4y agoThere's isn't necessarily more of either poverty or crime in USA cities than rural areas, it's roughly the same on average. (per capita; there are of course more people total in a city than a similarly sized rural area). Googling for cites, I find numbers all over the place. I don't know how to compare problems between the USA and Japan, or decide what kinds of problems are "worse"... but our misperceptions of the size of various problems based on our "common sense" probably doesn't help.
- SoylentOrange 4y agoI also lived for a time in Germany and in Canada. I want to note that West != USA. These countries are not without their own problems but I see no need to paper over them. Rather, we can be honest about their faults and their positive qualities so we might learn to build a better society or inform others who may want to try living there.
- wesapien 4y agoMulti racial/cultural societies have a different set of problems and advantages. Why can't we be more like Japan is because you can't? It would be interesting to see what a modern multi racial/cultural society built under an Asian country would be like. Dubai? UAE? Not really the place for me.
- wolverine876 4y agoAttributing problems to race is unfounded, a soft racism promoted by the far right (and unwittingly repeated).
- wolverine876 4y agoThis image of US cities is misleading. American cities I've been in are dyanamic engines of the American economy, filled with culture and life. Crime is low (though shootings are up nationwide, in every kind of place, urban to rural). Poverty is a big problem all over the US. The strongest evidence is the very high premium people will pay to live in these cities.