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Originally Posted by IMJ
Exactly, but we aren't supposed to address that on these forums. Which I often do address and "they" don't like it.
The U.S. criticisms about shootings from people outside the U.S. is the easiest of low-hanging fruit to attack our society with. And in many ways, rightfully so - school shootings and Chicago-culture related to violence are a mess. But there are a variety of reasons that these kinds of events are apparently more prolific than other countries.
-Ratios involving the size of the U.S. to violence (i.e. Germany is roughly only the size of Montana so the proportion of violence needs to be distilled down a city that isn't even remotely the melting pot of the United States)
-Metric reporting (Andrew tackled this one nicely above)
-Or how about prolific news? Other nations file reports about what happens in the U.S. probably 30 to 1 what the U.S. reports about social-news going on around the rest of the world. In many cases 48% of foreigners follow news about the U.S. I guarantee that half of America doesn't follow news about the raging violence and homelessness in France or the fact that 32% of women have experienced physical, sexual, or psychological violence in Germany
Basically, this forum has a significant amount of U.S. vitriol from members who are counting on "blind arguments" on a regular basis. It's gaslighting at it's finest from people in countries who hide the hell out of their raging problems while pointing fingers at alleged failures of the U.S.
Once again, evidence that they are disingenuous. Don't believe them because the agenda shines through.
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I think the main reason other countries are so quick to point out America's problems is due to how overly arrogant we are in telling anyone that would listen how great we are and how our country is the best in the world. People love to see arrogance fall.
I remember back in the day reports showed third world countries literally dancing in the streets after 9/11 as a kind of 'ha-ha, the oh so great America isn't so invincible after all' kind of sentiment.
I mean the argument can be made that the US is the best country in the world but we gain nothing in being arrogant boastful pricks about it.