| Comment | I do agree for a stranger walking on the streets it's safer in the west/uk etc
Largely because of strong policing and laws. But the same countries with a breakdown in society or lack of funding will see protection for any vulnerable group slip. There was a spike in sexual abuse and rape during hurricane katrina in US.
Other countries have been dealing with foreign intervention and wars(due to the former) and the police and legal system took a beat down. So it's no wonder our western countries are safer. Iraqi police wouldn't be responding when Western bombs are being dropped to liberate the bronze age primitives. Nor would any country. Our governments have made a lot of these country as you put it "bronze age" cultures. They weren't all like this.
One thing to note is that in large cities its easier to harass someone and not face consequences than say in a small village were everyone knows everyone. There is a load of subtle abuse in the west that goes on and is never reported till later on, think Jimmy Saville/ Epstein /weinstein. |
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