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Some areas of Brazil suffer from a lot of that too.

Day-to-day violent crime was the #1 reason that I wanted to leave the country.

Left the US(A) in early 2019 for this exact reason (SFBay) after 18 years. Now back in my native Iceland comfortably retiring. And kids no longer need to practice for active shooter situations at school. And I don't worry that a trigger happy cop gets too excited at traffic stop either.

Are there any countries that enjoy a low crime rate that do NOT have a largely homogeneous populations like Iceland and Japan? Not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely curious.

EDIT Are there any low crime countries with a diverse population that don't employ big brother style surveillance like Singapore?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Honduras at the very least you need more than that, Honduras itself is 87% mestizo

Reading your article

> Because of social stigmas attached, many people denied having African ancestry, and after African descended Caribbean workers arrived in Honduras, an active campaign to denigrate all people of African descent, made persons of mixed race anxious to deny any African ancestry. Hence official statistics quite uniformly under-represent those people who have ancestry in favor of a "two race" solution.

Contrasting your example, Japan and Iceland are near 100% homogeneous.

Canada?

Canada, like the US, is pretty diverse compared to places like Japan and Iceland. Am I missing something?

I think he meant that Canada is a diverse country with low crime. In contrast to how Japan and Iceland have no crime while having homogenous populations.

Thanks for the clarification. According to the data, it's comparable to the US which makes sense since the diversity and even culture are similar.

> comparable to the US

In diversity? Or crime rate?

Both

Me too, which is "funny" when it comes up in conversations, because people assume you left to earn more money, and then you tell them that you actually earned more in Brazil than you do now, but you have the constant fear of random violence.

I also came to the US deciding to leave my country and relatives behind for the exact same reason. Once you have kids your perspective changes and security of your family is much more important than money or work. The crimes you see in my current neighborhood today look like kid's pranks when compared to the real dangers I had to face on a daily basis back in my country.

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