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12-28-2012, 11:40 AM | #421 (permalink) |
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Did the people who make up Brazil come "from a multitude of different cultures and backgrounds and then had to forge out a new life in a new environment."
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12-28-2012, 12:21 PM | #422 (permalink) | |
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When you become the world's policeman, wars are easy to find.
But I guess the 'roaring twenties' were quite a peaceful time. Very much so and it was one of the huge immigration hotspots of the 20th century and also one of the largest. Huge amounts of people from Portugal, Spain, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, much of Eastern Europe and also quite a few people from the Arab states most notably from the Lebanon. You don't get a population of 194 million people without taking in quite a few immigrants! and then of course they had to adapt to their new and strange environment.
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I'm not taking sides on this debate, but I just have to point out that our nation hasn't really geared it's economy up for war and relatively few of our sons are coming home in body bags, at least compared to other conflicts. I live in Hampton Roads, which is home to the world's largest naval base and a seriously military town. But I only know one guy who has gone to Iraq or Afghanistan and nobody who has died over there. I don't think our society is really being affected all that much by these conflicts. Again, compared to past conflicts.
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I wouldn't actually call the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq as affecting your nation, as the soldiers that fight there are professionals and not conscripts and these are extremely limited campaigns. The point I'm putting across, is that the USA has had a large number of conflicts in its short period of existence, it's just an angle to try and shed some light on why your society is probably the most violent of the developed world. We know much of this violence is connected to 'gun crime' but we also know that guns don't pull their own triggers and thus need a person of a particular mindset to pull those triggers. A formal scientific approach could be used here, but as formal sciences are not exactly my strong point, I prefer to use social sciences based on empirical observation, using my knowledge of history and sociology on why the USA has these current ills. I find the subject very interesting and complex and open to all kinds of approaches and opinion. As the question here, is what makes somebody like Adam Lanza go into a school and kill a load of people and why don't these crimes happen on the same frequency in other countries in the developed world?
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2: Going to Brazil to hide out from the retribution of the world for your imperialist/fascist crimes is not equatable to people immigrating to the US because there was less of a class structure and more economic opportunity.
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WWI was based around imperialism, but WWII was just about a dictator who had been given too much slack and then it was too late to stop him. Western Europe finally matured after WWII with the forming of the EEC in the 1950s and since then Western Europe has been war free an amazing feat considering its history. Whilst the USA at this time, had developed an unhealthy fear of communism and then became involved in two bloody conflicts connected to this, whilst trying to be 'the worlds's policeman' and performing a balancing act in the Cold War, which at anytime could've evolved into another world war. These historical events, usually create a mindset within the society that is involved.
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A few escaping Nazis must've been a drop in the ocean, because at the time the country was taking in around 35,000 people a year.
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