In some sports stadiums, you take your life in your hands if you wear a jersey of the visiting team, while in other stadiums, it is no problem. I notice that in some stadiums, such as Green Bay’s, fans are safe wearing the gear of the visiting team.
I have this picture of people in the mid-West and the north of America being particularly nice. If this is true, I wonder if this primarily has to do with religion, culture, ethnicity, race, socio-economic status, education, amount of government welfare or what? I suspect one factor does not provide the whole answer. Take race, for instance.
In many countries in Europe, white fans in white stadiums are not at peace (Catholics hating Protestants and vice versa, many people hating Jews, low-class whites looking for fights with other low-class whites over sporting allegiances, etc). Despite this, I expect there’s less criminal violence in European sports stadiums than at African sports stadiums and Latin American sports stadiums.
I have this idea, perhaps wish, that people who go to church or synagogue regularly are less likely to riot and to commit crime.
On his radio show Apr. 22, 2014, Dennis Prager talked about his great experience attending a San Diego Padres home game but did not mention the obvious factor of race.
Dennis: “The fans there were so nice that it was tempting to root for the Padres. I have rarely experienced — this sense of calm niceness. I wonder if you can measure niceness and go to various stadiums? Compare Yankee Stadium fans with Fenway Park Fans with Kansas City Royals fans? The sandlot for little kids. I was touched.”
I wonder if the racial/religious/socio-economic make-up of Padre fans and Dodger fans and Angels fans is different.
I suspect that the whiter the city in America, the whiter the crowd at a stadium, the more law abiding it is. If the city and stadium population was dominantly Oriental, it would be even more peaceful. Generally speaking, Orientals are more law abiding than — in the order of the universal crime statistics — whites, followed by latinos and blacks.
If you talk to prosecutors in America, they’ll tell you that their typical Oriental defendant will say something like, “I wish to receive my punishment.” The typical white defendant will have a lot of excuses. The typical latino defendant will be proud of his crime. And the typical black defendant will blame racist police.
The kind of close-knit community Prager advocates is in inverse proportion to racial diversity noted leftist Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam, who was so upset by the results of his study that he didn’t publish it for a decade and only then with a pro-diversity spin. Putnam found that Los Angeles, the most racially diverse of America’s cities, had the least trust, meaning that people in such a racially mixed community tend to pull their heads in, go out less, cooperate less, and watch more TV. By contrast, the whitest cities such as Portland have the most neighborliness.
Steve Sailer (highly regarded by psychometricians) asked: “Can you guess which two cities lead the list of top 50 metropolitan areas in terms of the highest percentage of adults volunteering for charity? And which two cities came in last?” Lilly-white cities Minneapolis-St. Paul and Salt Lake City came in first, while diverse cities Miami and Las Vegas came in last.
A resident of Chicago, Steve Sailer worked with his community to do good things, but
concluded: “Multiculturalism doesn’t make vibrant communities but defensive ones…”
