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12-30-2012, 01:38 PM | #431 (permalink) | |
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12-30-2012, 01:55 PM | #432 (permalink) | |
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The underlined is not wrong and your example is just relative to its time period that is all. Modern immigrants have faced their own issues, just because they didn't face getting stuck with a load of arrows, doesn't mean they didn't have it just as hard. The only type of easy immigration, is when somebody goes to a guaranteed job with decent conditions or at least has the chance of attaining that. Any immigrant that doesn't qualify for that, is going to have it hard unless they are facing persecution in their in their own country.
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The Chinese who came over during the Gold Rush were kicked out of the country. The Irish suffered many hardships as new immigrants to America, what they faced in Ireland was persecution and starvation. There was a strong Anti-Italian sentiment in the US and many left for Canada and Brazil. Each group (Indians, Pilgrims, Squatters, post Civil War immigrants etc etc) has their own story of hardships, each had a different set of circumstances. I don't see it as who faced more or less persecution.
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If it's not the guns then what is it? The country's dodgy history perhaps? Their adoption of classic liberalism? A melting pot of too many cultures in the gene pool? The glamorization of violence in film? A lack of Education? The insular/sheltered feel of the people? The stress of being in such a developed country? A bit of everything I've put above or something else completely different or none of these things at all?
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01-05-2013, 03:39 AM | #438 (permalink) |
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Unknown Soldier, it might be very well a mixture of all that and much more. I come from a relatively small country where these incidents rarely (actually, I haven't really ever heard of any!) happen. One has to understand that the US is a huge country. It's almost the size of Europe, and Europe is not just one country. These things are bound to occur in a country that big. It's not normal, but it isn't all that surprising. Anyway, look at Canada and their gun laws. They're doing all right with them, right?
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If that's the case concerning Europe's and the USA's size, why do we not have the same level of violence as you do? Is it because we don't have the same amount of guns?
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01-05-2013, 04:21 AM | #440 (permalink) |
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Sorry, but I think you may have misinterpreted what I said. I'm European and not exactly sure where you're from now, so I can't answer your question. But I'm guessing you're European too, your location being London, and your nickname being a famous Finnish book?
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