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johno wrote:

Culture Is Essential
by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
An excerpt from Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution


The American South has long been more violent than the North. Colorful descriptions of duels, feuds, bushwhackings, and lynchings feature prominently in visitors’ accounts, newspaper articles, and autobiographies from the eighteenth century onward. Statistics bear out these impressions. For example, over the period 1865–1915, the homicide rate in the South was ten times the current rate for the whole United States, and twice the rate in our most violent cities. Modern homicide statistics tell the same story.

In their book, Culture of Honor, psychologists Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen argue that the South is more violent than the North because southern people have culturally acquired beliefs about personal honor that are different from their northern counterparts. Southerners, they argue, believe more strongly than Northerners that a person’s reputation is important and worth defending even at great cost. As a consequence, arguments and confrontations that lead to harsh words or minor scuffles in Amherst or Ann Arbor often escalate to lethal violence in Asheville or Austin.

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Nisbett and Cohen support their hypothesis with an impressive range of evidence. Let’s start with statistical patterns of violence. In the rural and small-town South, murder rates are elevated for arguments among friends and acquaintances, but not for killings committed in the course of other felonies. In other words, in the South men are more likely than Northerners to kill an acquaintance when an argument breaks out in a bar, but they are no more likely to kill the guy behind the counter when they knock off a liquor store. Thus, Southerners seem to be more violent than other Americans only in situations that involve personal honor. Competing hypotheses don’t do so well: neither white per-capita income nor hot climate nor history of slavery explain this variation in homicide.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/712842.html

DrDonkeyLove wrote:America's Most / Least Peaceful States

Most Peaceful States...............Least Peaceful States
10) Iowa.................................10) Mississippi
9) Rhode Island......................9) South Carolina
8) Hawaii................................8) Arkansas
7) Washington........................7) Texas
6) North Dakota.....................6) Missouri
5) Utah...................................5) Arizona
4) Minnesota..........................4) Florida
3) New Hampshire..................3) Nevada
2) Vermont.............................2) Tennessee
1) Maine.................................1) Louisiana

Many demographicals listed for why some are more peaceful than others. What commonalities/differences does the IGx brain trust see that the article misses (or doesn't dare state)?

Kazuya Mishima wrote:

johno wrote: "Honor culture"

... niggers.

johno wrote:

Kazuya Mishima wrote:

johno wrote: "Honor culture"

... niggers.

Quotes some nigger.

johno wrote: "Honor culture" also explains the disproportionate military contributions by the South.

Testiclaw wrote:

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

Testiclaw wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.

So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.

Stupid lib.

There are states listed among the most peaceful that have liberal gun laws so that can't be the answer. Thanks for trying though.

Sarcasm detector sounds broken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhWY6yFJsDY

johno wrote:Sir, we meet tomorrow at dawn upon the field of honour. Select your second and choose your weapon.

cleaner464 wrote:

johno wrote: "Honor culture" also explains the disproportionate military contributions by the South.

BS. It is more a function of job and educational opportunities. WTF else are you going to do down in Retardland?

Testiclaw wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.

So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.

Stupid lib.

High Velocity Lie-Nap! wrote:

Testiclaw wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.

So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.

Stupid lib.

LOL....Cleaner also has a multi-year IGx history of hating on the dark-colored, ghettolicious versions of societal trash. He just muted it a little when Barry got elected. Nobody knows how to hate better than a (white) Lib....nobody.

cleaner464 wrote:

johno wrote: "Honor culture" also explains the disproportionate military contributions by the South.

BS. It is more a function of job and educational opportunities. WTF else are you going to do down in Retardland?