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pointedflowers t1_itz42ld wrote

With how much harm happens to non-white folk (the indicators used in the study) this seems like we’re just bragging about how white and not poor the state is.

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NEIC_ADMIN t1_itzm9dz wrote

It's not absolute poverty. It's income inequality. Societies where almost everyone is poor but there isn't a huge Gini coefficient tend to be safer than societies with a medium median income but a very high Gini coefficient.

Also I'm not sure if being non-white has anything to do with it. East Asian nations tend to be less violent than Western ones once you control for income and education.

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