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Re:San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge by samatman on Saturday May 22, 2021 @12:12AM (#27243371)
There are a few possibilities, right?

- I'm making it up. I'm not, but that would just be taking my word for it twice.

- It's true, and completely random. Seems unlikely.

- It's true, and Scandinavians have a magic low-crime blood factor, perhaps it adheres to the blond gene, next to the lutefisk-appreciation gene. That would be weird, huh? Not necessarily racist, but weird.

- It's true, and Scandinavian Americans have cultural continuity with their brethren in the home countries. That's pretty boring and normal, so this is the one I picked.

- It's true, and due to the Aryan superiority of the Nordic white race, which we must preserve so they can continue to dominate the swarthy people of the world.

You picked that one, not me. I think it's absurd.

Re:San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge by renewiltord on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:41AM (#27244737)
I enjoy hypothesis generation so (with no judgment implied), here’s another:

- historical coincidence caused subgroup migration from those regions at the time, and there is cultural continuity with that subgroup

After all, Indian Americans are a remarkably tiny high-median-income, low-crime ethnic subgroup in America.