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Yes in part in America's case. The violent crime rate began to rise sharply in the 1960s when multiculturalism was made policy and although it's began to come down since about 1993 it is still much higher than 1960.
What multicultural does more than effect the crime rate is just increase inequality and decrease social cohesion.
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Native Americans aside, a lot of the Mountain West isn't that multicultural either outside the major cities. At any rate, most super-white states with low crime rates range from Dem to Rep in Presidential elections -- including, surprise, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Washington. Ideology has nothing to do with it (or at least very little).
The real cause of violence is initiating physical or verbal abuse against someone else, not because that person themselves was abusive or seriously unprincipled against another but simply because either they
(a) have a predatory personality (bullies, cons, etc)
(b) got excessively annoyed at some nitpicky, non-character trait that the violence initiator has (a bigot)
(c) judges the person as "human enough", yet sees that person's failure to live up to society's as a threat to others (a -phobe of some sort).
This happens in areas that are 100% white, too. Even in multicultural areas, a white is just as likely to bully, degrade, or jump to conclusions about other whites even mildly different/peculiar from other people. In fact, most of these perpetrators will likely have more respect for "normal" non-whites than for a "peculiar"/"inadequate" white. I say this as someone who never in my life resided in a community less than 30% minority.
IMO, high violence rates also occur when a culture overglorifies competition, to the point of fandom of even "no holds barred/dog-eat-dog", all while failing to see that such hyper-competitiveness in physical, verbal, or office politics battles actually weaken a society as a whole, but that's for another post.
If you look at the 5 most dangerous countries in the world (Colombia, Yemen, El Salvador, Pakistan and Nigeria), with the arguable exception of Pakistan, they are less diverse than the U.S but with higher levels of violence.
What they also have in common is high levels of poverty.
Therefore, I would consider poverty to be a bigger driving factor as a contributor to crime, than multiculturalism.
Maybe the violence just comes natural for some folks? Maybe they have no business in our society.
The Black Culture for whatever reason accepts violence more than many others here. There I said it. Look at the murder stats, their music, etc. Black on Black violence is extreme here, especially in big cities. What other ethnic group has more murders, and violent crime than Africans? This is not a "racist" comment it is fact.
America being born of violence may have something to do with things to.
America isn't unique in being born out of violence. Throughout history, new nations have risen from the ashes of the old.
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