High-Trust Social Societies Are on the Verge of Destruction by Migrants from Low-Trust Social Societies

High-trust societies prosper, and low-trust societies do not. That is a gross generalization, but it is true.

A corollary: Turning a high-trust society into a low-trust society is easy. The opposite is extremely difficult.

This from hotair.com.

The ongoing immigration debate is intimately wrapped in discussions about race, however, race can be a distraction from the much larger issue of the culture from which migrants are coming.

Specifically, if a migrant treks to a Western country from Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Somalia, they are steeped in a culture in which social trust is quite low, and they are unlikely to integrate well into Western society.

Western leaders may have been more thoughtful of their decisions had they been apprised of this profound truth well ahead of handing away the safety of their citizenry and their entire cultures.

If migrants are coming from a Western European country or the United States, they are likely to integrate well–unless they come from a pocket within those societies where trust is low. Robert Putnam, for instance, wrote a book called Bowling Alone about social trust, and his earlier work explained why Northern Italy was more prosperous than Sicily–social trust was the answer. Sicily is tribal in a way that Northern Italy is not, which is why the Mafia thrives there.

It is difficult to discuss these issues because there is such a strong overlap between cultural groupings and race, and if you say “Somalis are likelier to commit fraud” than Americans, people immediately jump to race as your motivation for saying so. But people who have lived for generations in Minnesota, can attest to the influx of immigrants:

Somalis commit a huge amount of fraud. The biggest government scandals are Somali fraud cases.

It is the culture, not the race, that matters:

No one would be anything but thrilled if Idris Elba, Rishi Sunak, or Kemi Badenoch immigrated to the United States, but few people would be thrilled if a Somali family with a wife in a niqab moved in next door.

That may sound bigoted, but it is true because it is rational.

It may be surprising that Norway keeps statistics that are embarrassing to the reality-shy, but they do. And the statistics about crime committed by native-born Norwegians and immigrants tell a story we need to hear about migration from low-trust societies. Not only are the migrants from these societies much more likely to commit crimes than Norwegians or Western European migrants (or U.S. migrants), but their children (2nd generation) are even worse.

As is apparent, Danes and Western immigrants commit crimes at similar rates. Western migrants commit a tiny bit more property crime and fewer violent crimes than Danes. On the other hand, migrants from the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, and Turkey are, as a group, a menace. Their rate of rapes is 9x that of Westerners, violent crimes as a whole 5x, and robbery 10x. Non-Westerners as a group are not quite so bad, but clearly a net drain on social trust and society as a whole.

This is, of course, on top of the fact that the average non-Western migrant is a net consumer of government resources, so the society is paying taxes to have their quality of life and long-term societal health diminished. And it is not just a first-generation problem. The second generation, if anything, is a bigger drain on society.

Suppressing discussion about these issues is dividing society, actually increasing racism as people become disgusted with being bashed over the head for speaking truths, and driving down social trust.

The pendulum is swinging away from political correctness and tiptoeing around issues that make people uncomfortable, and when pendulums swing, they usually go beyond the set point where the discussion is healthy.

The focus should be on issues like social trust rather than race. If somebody is 9x as likely to commit a crime as somebody else, it is probably a bad idea to invite them into your home.

Individuals and societies that look away from reality to avoid seeing uncomfortable facts are on a path to failure. In the United States, most people twist themselves into knots about race, pretending not to see there are segments of the minority communities that are totally dysfunctional. People dance around issues rather than confront them, and that makes fixing the problems impossible, and frustrates people so much that some give up entirely on the idea the problem can be fixed.

We are eroding social trust in our society for no other reason than we want to be politically correct. Everyone knows the assault in Cincinnati was a racial hate crime, but no liberal wants to say it. They twist reality into knots and attack anybody for telling the truth. They complain that We the People notice.

The problem is that inner cities are pockets of low-trust societies within larger, higher-trust societies. Few people in the exurbs worry they cannot walk at night. Few people in large parts of our cities feel they can walk their neighborhoods safely.

There is a neighborhood in Minneapolis called “Little Mogadishu,” and while not quite a “no-go” zone, it is not exactly welcoming. And saying that is not racist because it is a true statement.

Look at those charts. They tell a story.

Liberals may disagree with the information reported, but that does not make it untrue.

Final thoughts: Some countries in Europe are likely already lost. But America, can we save our beloved country without a high trust society vs low trust society war?