WOW! What a phrase Human Interest! Who is this guy Samuel, never heard of him before? Well never really studied social sciences/arts/political science/or whatever you call them so probably why i never heard of him. But that phrase got me thinking man - i mean it's true, look at history itself! Redneck?

Human Interest,
If what Samuel Thingamejig said is correct.
The west should have been overthrown years ago.
Since many countries/cultures of the world have well and truly outclassed us in terms of organised violence.

Samuel P. Huntington is the author of "The Clash Of Civilizations"

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington

hmmm, well, some of us are part Aboriginal and part old colonial, so does that make us criminal?
My only regret of the demise of the Australian Democrats is that we lost our only Aboriginal member of Parliament. Even if I didn't always like what he said. I even forgot his name. I forgot it with three letters: GST.
We need more diversity in representation running this country with various constructive ideas to bring us all together, and not just call Australians criminals. Who mentioned homosexuality? Lets stick to the topic and stop finger pointing at other minority groups.
We need more leaders like the Islamic Mayor of the Moreland City Council: Cr Anthony Helou JP, who has made a stand against all racism and terrorism. Blessed be the peacemakers.
And indeed we are blessed in NSW to have Dr Bashir as Governor who only fits one category: your Excellency.
There are good people here, there always have been, its just that we get blamed for all the bigots. I am not even going to tell you what colour I am, as I don't see the relevance.

Horus, you're forgetting Desert Storm and Shock and Awe aren't you? Western cultures are still the best when it comes to overwhelming force. But of course that doesn't entirely explain the spread of western thought and ideologies to cultures that have never been subjugated by force, and it doesn't explain why some cultures that have been subjugated take it up at different rates and in different ways.

To Ms Redneck

Your post to me has left me rather bemused. My previous post provided a link to a government report detailing that criminal tendencies had been observed within some individual families; in other words genetics were involved. I have not disagreed with you there. You are the one making the link between criminal tendencies and race. It is there that you are wrong.

There is no evidence linking criminal behaviour to such a broad spectrum as race. Criminality is a human characteristic. As previously stated, some individual families exhibit criminal tendencies, however there is no hard rule on this and many eminent citizens emerge from very dysfunctional families. Again, this is not specific to race.

You seem to have become caught on the idea of the role that genetics may play in anti-social behaviour and applying it to race. There is no evidence of this. Socio-economic factors continue to play the most significant factor in criminal behaviour.

Now as for what you described as my “broadside” at you. All I can say is that your posts are continually denigrating of non-caucasians. This leads me to conclude that you are racist. As I have previously shown, anti-social tendencies can be an inherent factor in some families, therefore one may posit that you are from a family of racists. If this is not true, then I apologise to your family and can only conclude that you are an aberration