Violence

[littleFella]

Originally Posted by look4edmund

With influx or immigrants. Parental guidance won't help much.

Regards,
Edmund Ng

Would you care to tell us the US schools stats that would support that silly statement?

[ricomhc]

Originally Posted by look4edmund

With influx or immigrants. Parental guidance won't help much.




Regards,
Edmund Ng

I completely disagree. Originally from Vancouver and now travelling abroad, I realize that one of the things that makes that city so great is its ethnic variety. Canada, especially as of recently, has been built in great part by immigration and over the recent past it has been consisently ranked at the top (1st for seven years straight, 1994-2000) of the UN Human Development Index with Vancouver also ranking at the top (this year 3th) of The Mercer Human Report which ranks international cities on their quality of life standards.

Now, I'm not saying that immigration is the reason for those statistics, or even that it is a large part of the reason. I don't know how much immigration into Canada actually contributed to its ranking on those lists but it certainly didn't affect it in a negative way as look4edmund seems to be suggesting.

Also, and please correct me if I am wrong, I assume from look4edmund's last name as it appears on his post that he has at least a partially Chinese background which would mean his ancestors at some point were immigrants.

Man, I miss some of the food back home.

Mercer Human Report 2007:
http://www.mercerhr.com/referencecon...ontent=1128060

UN Human Development Index 2006 (on answers.com):
http://www.answers.com/topic/human-development-index

[temyong]

Hi, We are not talking about Japanese culture.

Originally Posted by thePro

speaking of japanese culture: http://www.break.com/index/japanese_air_sex.html

[bizwiz]

I think the primary culprit is easy access to guns. In the US anyone can walk in a store to purchase a firearm. Thats a pretty scary thought for me.

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by bizwiz

In the US anyone can walk in a store to purchase a firearm.

Not true.

[kristeejo]

Very close to the truth.

Crazy people can get guns....just not felons.

[John Scott]

A lot of people can't get guns, not just felons.

[Tanya]

It's funny, but how many of those saying it's 'easy' for someone to get a gun, actually have before got one themselves.
Now i'm sure it wasnt like walking into ****ing wallmart no?
so a crazy person getting his/her hands on a gun is far fetched to be honest. It's not that easy. Someone running in the gun shop with blood shot eyes screaming death to smoochie wont get a gun haha

[Linda in NY]

I can walk into a store here and go to the sporting goods section and buy a shotgun, no permit needed. But I don't need one, and with my size, if I tried to fire one, it'd knock me on my tailbone, then I'd need to go back to the store for an icepack.

[kristeejo]

Watch BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE.

[Brian]

What this country needs is more weed.

[blm03]

I am sure this crap goes on everywhere. However, our media makes it their mission to inform the world. In other countries, the media isn't given free reign

[geo77]

It seems like "some" people in the USA have lost all sense of responsibility, respect for others, respect for parents and authority and everything is settled with violence.

I agree, but you can't really single out the US, can you? These attributes are characteristic of people all over the world. It's partly a discipline thing, and partly the fact that parents don't seem to know how to do their job...or perhaps just don't care.

I am sure this crap goes on everywhere. However, our media makes it their mission to inform the world. In other countries, the media isn't given free reign

Good point.