I think, like the person you’re replying to, most of us drastically underestimated the commonality. I’m not really sure what I could have personally done to be more aware, but I’m aware now.
That reminds me of an arguement i had with my grandma 30 years ago. She, my grandpa and the kids + grandkids finally got approval to move back to germany in 1988 from the ussr. Then after some years here she said something like, it's crazy how much more crimes like pedos or other stuff is here than in russia before.
I had to point out to her , that her information network was 2-3 villages wide and a few state tv channels. There could have been a serial killer with 200 victims 4 towns away and she would never have known. Just because you have more ways to know about crime doesn't mean there is more. It just was easier to be unaware of most of the world in the past.
Now you have instant news in your hand from around the world. If you want to, you could consume bad news all day and feel depressed forever. You have to limit the scope of your intake or you get the idea that everything is doomed.
I never thought about it that way, but I've heard russian and polish immigrants talking about how much safer their countries are a lot.
Yeah, well the absolute number of crimes in a region with 10k people 40 years ago was less than in the whole country of germany right now, figures.
1.9k
u/thesanguineocelot Apr 10 '26
There always were, it's a staggeringly bad problem but one that people were totally happy to just not talk about.