Why are riots on police videos from other countries and almost never american riots?

Question

Are the other countries just unsophisticated or what? I mean I always thought of foreigners to be a little more sophisticated that americans and a little classy but somethings they do are just unnecessary and immature why is this?

See why is everyone getting all defensive? I said myself that I always thought of most other countries as being classy. And you talk about generalizations, well you just generalized against americans in the next sentence.

Answer 1

It's just a statistical thing.... American's make up less than 5 % of the world's population so it stands to reason that we would have only about five % of the world's riots.

Answer 2

Holy Generalizations!

Not all "foreigners" are the same. You cannot compare the Italians, to Spanish, to Sudanese, to Chinese to Australian. It is impossible. And there have been MANY riots in the United States. Have you not heard of Rodney King? What about the World Trade Summit in Seatle?

There have been riots in Canada, China, Jamaica, Haiti, Sudan, Mexico, Spain, and it goes on and on and on.

To claim that people are "unsophisticated" because they riot is completely false. People riot for a variety of reasons, some due to their economic situations, other times it is due to an oppresive regime, or a blatant miscarriage of justice or by the neglect of the rest of the world.

Views like yours is why many people have recently grown to despise your nation.

Answer 3

Honestly, I think it's the other way around.

We Americans have lost our ability to think about issues and take action. I'm not saying let's all go out and riot, but we've really got to get out of this status-quo rut we're in!

At least the foreigners aren't letting their governments treat them like doormats!

Answer 4

Nope..
You want to see a real live riot...
You need to visit one of those countries that call the USA uncivilized.

Answer 5

because the people and police are uncivilized.. maybe..