On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Phil Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
4. If you have a scientific justification for your claim that "the
racial/ethnic categories serve as a proxy for socio-economic factors and
nothing more", I would like to see a cite for it. It would be a useful shield
against a bigotry claim. While this claim is an article of faith among some,
I've never seen a study on the subject.
Kleck remarked in "Point Blank" that the gun homicide rate among
Japanese-Americans is as small as that in Japan, even though the prevalence of
gun ownership among the Japanese here is much higher. Does this tell us
something about their race, or their culture, or their economic stratum? Kleck
implies it is cultural, citing a deeply-ingrained respect for law and authority
figures. Unfortunately, not even a study of their descendants who grew up
entirely in the USA will give us much more insight, because it would fail to
measure how successful a given family was in passing on that attitude in the
face of peer norms.
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