It is entirely possible for a culture in an area/country to promote a behavior that many of the people there agree with. That doesn't mean that all the people in that area/country agree with (or exhibit) it, just that it's common.
For example, there is a fairly widespread / rampant "cheating/copying/don't-bother-learning" culture in a lot of schools in India, especially as it relates to software development. I've seen it brought up and stated as truth by people from that region over and over. There are also many VERY smart, skilled, devoted software developers from that are. I've worked with quite a few. However, because there _is_ that culture, the "noise" (bad developers) to signal (good developers) ratio is really high. And, when dealing with developers from that area (especially, from my experience, those at various contract/churn companies), you need to be careful about the work they're doing. You need to check to see it's being done well ... at least until you're familiar enough with the people/team that you can trust them.
Culture _has_ an impact; but that doesn't mean it should be assumed... just that it may mean you need to pay more attention.
It takes black Americans way longer than everyone else to wash and do their hair. (Guessing 2-5x longer for doing hair, and perhaps an order of magnitude longer to do a full wash.)
The cost to black women to get their hair done is generally more than any other group.
Almost all black women (and probably black men) have had to develop some coping mechanism for the number of non-black people who want (or at times, demand) to touch their hair.
Digression-- I remember a black doctor who had a coping mechanism for the number of patients who assumed he was the nurse and asked him where the doctor was. He would spin 360-degrees and then present himself to the patient again. :)
As for the sibling comment-- my first three sentences are falsifiable.
> (and probably black men) have had to develop some coping mechanism
My "coping mechanism" for the time before I just shaved it too short to matter was to simply say, "OK, go ahead." It's not a big deal and I don't have a problem with a natural curiosity.
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Asking is fine, "demanding" I would have a serious problem with.
I don't think that was their point. They are saying that talking about "crime" being a cultural element is wack and is usually a dogwhistle for plain racism and to justify hatred (I mean, it's part of their "culture" after all!). That's why saying "crime is part of black culture" is bad, and why saying that it's part of any culture should also raise eyebrows. If the same comment about Russian culture was about black culture, it would've been flagged (rightfully so).
I believe one of the reasons why so many people get away with the black culture dog whistle is American history kinda ignores the entire period between the end of the civil war and the start of WWII. We learn some about the Jim Crow era, but it's kind of neglected that slavery didn't stop at all. If you say 'Slavery actually ended in WWII", I do believe most people would be surprised. And it reframes the argument from slavery ended a long time ago, to things were really still total shit until your (black) grandparents generation (and not much better till the civil rights movements after that).
Now, turning this back to Russia, is seemingly Russia has always had the idea that it's outer population is a gigantic meat shield to protect Moscow. There are a number of authors and videos on this topic and I'm not going to link any particular ones. This said in the current war with Ukraine we see this in practice, as huge amount of the soldiers being used are not from the Moscow area, but the more minority areas farther away from the capital.
It does seem to be leaking, doesn't it? Someone posted the hard-r here the other day, that feels uncommon, although I'm still a relative newbie in terms of HN.
Not really. OP said "now do black Americans" aluding to 7% of black men commit 60% of all crimes in the USA but merely stating this raw stat posted by government agencies including the fbi (which no longer publishes the stats btw since biden came into office), sends people up in arms and pretty much every reason is used to explain it other than focusing on this group culturally/educationally/etc. gpp is drawing attention to why did no one react the same way to "why russians commit crime" in the same way people react to why does this group commit crime.
"Black Rednecks and White Liberals" by Thomas Sowell is pretty interesting.
tl;dr: Sowell contends that the "black ghetto culture", characterized by violence, a lack of ambition, a dismissive attitude toward education, and a casual approach to work, is not inherent to African-Americans. Instead, he argues that it is a cultural relic of white southern 'Redneck' or 'Cracker' culture, which was brought to the South by immigrants from the more lawless regions of Britain.
These immigrants, according to Sowell, came from areas that were marked by a resistance to work, a lack of education, a predilection for violence, and a general disregard for the law. These cultural traits, Sowell argues, were absorbed by the African-American population in the South during the era of slavery and have been perpetuated in certain communities to this day.
For example, there is a fairly widespread / rampant "cheating/copying/don't-bother-learning" culture in a lot of schools in India, especially as it relates to software development. I've seen it brought up and stated as truth by people from that region over and over. There are also many VERY smart, skilled, devoted software developers from that are. I've worked with quite a few. However, because there _is_ that culture, the "noise" (bad developers) to signal (good developers) ratio is really high. And, when dealing with developers from that area (especially, from my experience, those at various contract/churn companies), you need to be careful about the work they're doing. You need to check to see it's being done well ... at least until you're familiar enough with the people/team that you can trust them.
Culture _has_ an impact; but that doesn't mean it should be assumed... just that it may mean you need to pay more attention.