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Your generation was more violent
"The Irish today are peaceful..."
Somehow I doubt the WASPs of 19th century Boston cowered behind their brownstones for fear of rape and murder by Irish. The Irish had an extremely low rape rate, according to research by Hasia Diner, "Erin's Daughters in America". The Irish of that day would rather drink and fight than do sex of any kind. Cut down on embarrassment in the confessional.
The European immigrant group with the highest rape rate were the Slavs. Some Italians of course were doing cosa nostra, but it was members only for the most part. That's why it was "nostra."
Irish crime was predominantly drunkeness and gang fights. They also caused cholera epidemics in the first half of the 19th century, due to the crowded, unsanitary conditions. Boston had been one of the healthiest places in the world before that, so the natives had reason to dislike the new immigrants. However, the Irish were not given to vicious murder/rape/robbery on non-co-ethnics. They didn't even do that stuff too much to each other, except in the "sectarian violence" in Ireland.
It just seems like the current crime rate in the urban areas will not change because the people committing most of them will not change. Seems like we're stuck with them forever.
Somehow I doubt the WASPs of 19th century Boston cowered behind their brownstones for fear of rape and murder by Irish. The Irish had an extremely low rape rate, according to research by Hasia Diner, "Erin's Daughters in America". The Irish of that day would rather drink and fight than do sex of any kind. Cut down on embarrassment in the confessional.
The European immigrant group with the highest rape rate were the Slavs. Some Italians of course were doing cosa nostra, but it was members only for the most part. That's why it was "nostra."
Irish crime was predominantly drunkeness and gang fights. They also caused cholera epidemics in the first half of the 19th century, due to the crowded, unsanitary conditions. Boston had been one of the healthiest places in the world before that, so the natives had reason to dislike the new immigrants. However, the Irish were not given to vicious murder/rape/robbery on non-co-ethnics. They didn't even do that stuff too much to each other, except in the "sectarian violence" in Ireland.
It just seems like the current crime rate in the urban areas will not change because the people committing most of them will not change. Seems like we're stuck with them forever.
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