Yes, see that's interesting (and I was thinking about this earlier, actually)...
We also have the alcoholism epidemic. That is almost exactly the same, as are a few other issues (child abuse and neglect, for one), but culturally...
Our "natives" base almost their entire modern identity on aping (lol) your blacks...
Like, it is extremely noticeable. From music, to clothing, to hairstyles, to violence. Our "half castes" (because there is less than 50K ACTUAL "purebloods" left) fall over themselves to be "wiggers" (the classic 90s term). It's... Odd.
Even politically/with their "activism" and "social justice" obsession, they are largely aping "African Americans", not their fellow North American natives...
This is the negative power of "pop culture", in particular hip hop, tv and movies (but mostly hip hop).
See also: our South Sudanese, Sub-continentals (mostly Indians. But in this case, think the Hmong gangs in Gran Torino), and fucking Lebs and Viets. It is the exact same problem...
Though the Aboriginals and South Sudanese are the main problem, now. The Lebs still cause trouble in Western Sydney, and they're responsible for a lot of the political corruption there (see also: Italians, specifically the Calabrian Mafia, in the Riverina district of NSW, and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Melbourne), but really... The main, widespread" issues now (aside from Chinese political influence, and violence from them against locals) are Maori, Aboriginal and fucking South Sudanese gangs, unfortunately... One of those, you may notice, is not like the others...
American pop culture is an infection in this country (no offence), and it is literally causing us to break down across racial and "gender" lines. All "your" (not you personally, of course) hyper-partisanship is ripping this place apart, too. This is how we end up with the above, and it is going to break this place, in the not too distant future, unless we fight back, which clearly isn't happening... :-/
Yes, see that's interesting (and I was thinking about this earlier, actually)...
We also have the alcoholism epidemic. That is almost exactly the same, as are a few other issues (child abuse and neglect, for one), but culturally... Our "natives" base almost their entire modern identity on aping (lol) your blacks...
Like, it is extremely noticeable. From music, to clothing, to hairstyles, to violence. Our "half castes" (because there is less than 50K ACTUAL "purebloods" left) fall over themselves to be "wiggers" (the classic 90s term). It's... Odd.
Even politically/with their "activism" and "social justice" obsession, they are largely aping "African Americans", not their fellow North American natives...
This is the negative power of "pop culture", in particular hip hop, tv and movies (but mostly hip hop).
See also: our South Sudanese, Sub-continentals (mostly Indians. But in this case, think the Hmong gangs in Gran Torino), and fucking Lebs and Viets. It is the exact same problem...
Though the Aboriginals and South Sudanese are the main problem, now. The Lebs still cause trouble in Western Sydney, and they're responsible for a lot of the political corruption there (see also: Italians, specifically the Calabrian Mafia, in the Riverina district of NSW, and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Melbourne), but really... The main, widespread" issues now (aside from Chinese political influence, and violence from them against locals) are Maori, Aboriginal and fucking South Sudanese gangs, unfortunately... One of those, you may notice, is not like the others...
American pop culture is an infection in this country (no offence), and it is literally causing us to break down across racial and "gender" lines. All "your" (not you personally, of course) hyper-partisanship is ripping this place apart, too. This is how we end up with the above, and it is going to break this place, in the not too distant future, unless we fight back, which clearly isn't happening... :-/