Becoming ??? I think that ship has long sailed
I've traveled a fair bit. From France to India and much in between, so I've met a lot of people of different cultures and been observant as to how people of those countries conduct themselves.
The UK is like the backward part of the world, and while many are good and reasonable people, a great many don't seem to know how to behave towards their fellow man.
Like so many of your views, this is upside down and inside out.
I'd agree that in most of the world, most people are basically good. In general when I have been abroad, often travelling on foot with a bag on my back, people have been helpful and benign, rather than the opposite. But I am aware that this depends on where I was and as for your assessment of how 'we' are when you say we are the 'backward part of the world', this observation may reflect where you happen to live in the UK. It is not my assessment at all.
Europe is a pretty civilised part of the world. In general, outside of ghettos of deprivation and horrible behaviour, people across Europe tend to share a culture which is benign. But your remark that we are the 'backward' part of the world, is frankly not supported by the data. The UK has a homicide rate in line with the rest of western Europe. About 1 person per hundred thousand in Europe is the victim of homicide. In teh UK it is slightly lower (0,95 per hundred thousand). In the USA, the rate is over five times that. In many other societies it is even worse. MUCH worse in many places.
Global terrorism rates are low except if you happen to be in the Middle East where it is extraordinarily high, and when it happens outside the nexus of the Middle East, it most commonly involves people from the Middle east. The victims of terrorism are mainly people IN the Middle East. We in Europe hardly feature at all as victims, but when we do, it is very likely to be inflicted by people from the Middle East. Are all Middle Eastern people terrorists? Certainly not. They are much more likely to be its victims than they are to be its perpetrators.
That though doesn't undermine the problem that in admitting people from that part of the world on a large scale, you WILL be importing some people who will resort to terrorism when they feel aggrieved. just ask the French, the Germans and the Swedes. All that notwithstanding, the worst terrorist outrage carried out in Europe since the horrible Lockerbie bombing was carried out by a blond Norwegian nutcase who murdered over 70 people. It also occurs to me that we should not get overly hung up on definitions of mass murder such as terrorism while people like Putin are slaughtering dozens of civilians each day with his war against Ukraine. There is no doubt at all about who the biggest terrorist in Europe is right now
The Global Terrorism Index measures the impact of terrorism and provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends in terrorism.
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Two years since the start of the Russian invasion, the civilian death toll in Ukraine was close to 12,500 as of December 2024, as verified by OHCHR.
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