Iceland: Least Violent Country

[SilverKnight]

Source: DominicanToday.com

www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/6/22/44137/Chillin-Iceland-the-most-peaceful-Dom-Rep-lags-far-behind



Santo Domingo.- You want love and peace? Head to the ice...land that is, the chillin’ nation has just been tapped the most peaceful country on the planet for the second straight year, by the 2012 Global Peace Index (GPI).

But tropical Dominican Republic doesn’t rate even close, ranked 90th among the 158 nations rated by the GPI, remaining relatively stagnant at 92 of 153 countries in 2011, and 81 of 148 in 2010.

New Zealand and Denmark tied for second place, Canada came in fourth and Japan fifth, with the United States ranked No. 88 of the 158 in the Index, with Somalia dubbed the "least peaceful" at 155 with Iraq 156, Sudan and Afghanistan’s 157.

The figures are an annual attempt by the nonprofit Institute for Economics and Peace to examine more than 20 criteria -- including access to weapons, jailed population and violent crime figures in each country -- to create a global peace map.

[GeistFaust]

Well its not really a surprise if you look at how few of immigrants there are in Iceland, and how homogenous the whole population is relatively speaking, so I think Iceland would lose its title as least Violent country if any Caribbeans decided to settle in it.

[PeacefulCaribbeanDutch]

Population: 317,398

I would say compare it to new york.. but now I think compare it to Florida where they just try to eat you.

[SilverKnight]

Well its not really a surprise if you look at how few of immigrants there are in Iceland, and how homogenous the whole population is relatively speaking, so I think Iceland would lose its title as least Violent country if any Caribbeans decided to settle in it.

Not just Caribbeans, but North Americans and even mainland Europeans themselves, is more about their consistent harmonious culture then anything I believe.

Outside of countries like Iceland, Norway, Japan etc. We all seem to be living about this selfish mentality and sick as well. While these types of countries seem to preserve their own unique mentality. But I would like to say that there are Caribbeans or people who immigrate from other parts of the world who would easily stand up as more civilize then the native of the country they have immigrated to, my family from both sides is a good example.

Notice Russia ranks at 153 and it's very white country as compare to DR or Brazil meaning that culture has a tremendous implication when it comes to peaceful societies..


Population: 317,398

I would say compare it to new york.. but now I think compare it to Florida where they just try to eat you.


Is more about the actual culture then the population itself, but yeah you have to give some credit to Iceland for maintaining such a small and stable population.


Guys, here's a very interesting map... 2012 Global Peace Index

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/

[Pallantides]

No wonder, since it's such a small country.

[Osprey]

Homogenous population and an aboove average IQ are needed for a peaceful country.

[Pallantides]

I also think a sense of social stability plays a part, if Icelanders were a extremely poor population and most of them immigrated to a country and ended up in some multi-ethnic city slum, many would most likely end up just as violent and criminal as any other ethnic group in a similar situation. Like the Irish in Five Points, New York in the late 19th century.

[Polpottian]

Homogenous population and an aboove average IQ are needed for a peaceful country.

Malaysia is ranked No20, it doesn't have a homogenous population. Somalia is homogenous, but it's the lowest ranking of all the countries with the data available. Overall it seems that European countries dominate.

[SilverKnight]

Homogenous population and an aboove average IQ are needed for a peaceful country.

According to statics Botswana has an average IQ of 72 and they still rank at position 31 plus their HDI (Human Development Index) is one of the fastest growing in Sub-Sahara Africa.



I also think a sense of social stability plays a part, if Icelanders were a extremely poor population and most of them immigrated to a country and ended up in some multi-ethnic city slum, many would most likely end up just as violent and criminal as any other ethnic group in a similar situation. Like the Irish in Five Points, New York in the late 19th century.

Nurture affects attitudes tremendously. A guetto Dominican or Puerto Rican born in NYC will act differently then one raised in his/her parents native land , born with neighbor and family support and good traditions.


Malaysia is ranked No20, it doesn't have a homogenous population. Somalia is homogenous, but it's the lowest ranking of all the countries with the data available. Overall it seems that European countries dominate.

Europe dominates due to its socioeconomic stability, countries like UK may become less stable due its influx of immigrants from countries like India, Pakistan and others which rank way above in the peace index chart as less peaceful.

Hopefully is Iceland if ever decides to bring in immigrants in the future they do so by bringing in people with good education and behavior, for their sake.

[ricko0812]

must not be alot of blacks then me thinks

[Pallantides]

Nurture affects attitudes tremendously.

True, nobody today think of the Irish or Dutch as criminals and gangster. ;)


In 17th century in Norway, some Dutch immigrants formed gangs to fight Scottish and German immigrants for a better position at the docks in Bergen, they also sat fire to warehouses and did acts of vandalization.

Preached by a German priest in Bergen:

”Rotten, Skotten, Hollender und Zegen verderben`s allerwegen; da die seyn, kan nichts gedeien.”


Also poor Swedish immigrants were accused of being behind most of the crime in the captital Oslo during the 19th century.(accusing a foreign immigrant populations of being the root of all societies ills is nothing new.)

[SilverKnight]

must not be alot of blacks then me thinks

97% of Botswana is black, blacker then South Africa......

[Vasconcelos]

Portugal scored 16th, not too bad..

[ricko0812]

97% of Botswana is black, blacker then South Africa......

one example out of countless others.....

[Peyrol]

Well its not really a surprise if you look at how few of immigrants there are in Iceland, and how homogenous the whole population is relatively speaking, so I think Iceland would lose its title as least Violent country if any Caribbeans decided to settle in it.

Immigrants in Iceland are 13% of the population.

http://www.hagstofa.is/?PageID=2593&src=/temp/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=MAN04103%26ti=Mannfj%F6ldi+eftir+r%E Dkisfangi%2C+kyni+og+aldri+1%2E+jan%FAar+1998%2D20 11+++++%26path=../Database/mannfjoldi/Rikisfang/%26lang=3%26units=Fj%C3%B6l

[Damião de Góis]

Portugal scored 16th, not too bad..

Judging by our rising criminality, that means other countries who are on top are not that peaceful either.

[Osprey]

Stupid people follow whatever their 'masters' gave them.
A couple of 100+(IQ) nigger shamen walked in, hypnotised the lot with their weird tricks, told them to follow some wacky traditions which are very 'peaceful' and lo, you get Botswana.

[member]

Full list, European countries bolded.

1 Iceland 1.113
2 Denmark 1.239
2 New Zealand 1.239
4 Canada 1.317
5 Japan 1.326
6 Austria 1.328
6 Ireland 1.328
8 Slovenia 1.330
9 Finland 1.348
10 Switzerland 1.349
11 Belgium 1.376
12 Qatar 1.395
13 Czech Republic 1.396
14 Sweden 1.419
15 Germany 1.424
16 Portugal 1.470
17 Hungary 1.476
18 Norway 1.480
19 Bhutan 1.481
20 Malaysia 1.485
21 Mauritius 1.487
22 Australia 1.494
23 Singapore 1.521
24 Poland 1.524
25 Spain 1.548
26 Slovakia 1.590
27 Taiwan 1.602
28 Netherlands 1.606
29 United Kingdom 1.609
30 Chile 1.616
31 Botswana 1.621
32 Romania 1.627
33 Uruguay 1.628
34 Vietnam 1.641
35 Croatia 1.648
36 Costa Rica 1.659
37 Laos 1.662
38 Italy 1.690
39 Bulgaria 1.699
40 France 1.710
41 Estonia 1.715
42 South Korea 1.734
43 Lithuania 1.741
44 Argentina 1.763
45 Latvia 1.774
46 United Arab Emirates 1.785
47 Kuwait 1.792
48 Mozambique 1.796
49 Namibia 1.804
50 Ghana 1.807
51 Zambia 1.830
52 Sierra Leone 1.855
53 Lesotho 1.864
54 Morocco 1.867
55 Tanzania 1.873
56 Burkina Faso 1.881
56 Djibouti 1.881
58 Mongolia 1.884
59 Oman 1.887
60 Malawi 1.894
61 Panama 1.899
62 Jordan 1.905
63 Indonesia 1.913
64 Serbia 1.920
65 Bosnia Herzegovina 1.923
66 Albania 1.927
66 Moldova 1.927
68 Macedonia (FYR) 1.935
69 Guyana 1.937
70 Cuba 1.951
71 Ukraine 1.953
72 Tunisia 1.955
73 Cyprus 1.957
74 Gambia 1.961
75 Gabon 1.972
76 Paraguay 1.973
77 Greece 1.976
78 Senegal 1.994
79 Peru 1.995
80 Nepal 2.001
81 Montenegro 2.006
81 Nicaragua 2.006
83 Brazil 2.017
84 Bolivia 2.021
85 Ecuador 2.028
85 Swaziland 2.028
87 Equatorial Guinea 2.039
88 USA 2.058
89 China 2.061
90 Dominican Republic 2.068
91 Bangladesh 2.071
92 Guinea 2.073
93 Papua New Guinea 2.076
94 Trinidad and Tobago 2.082
95 Angola 2.105
95 Guinea-Bissau 2.105
97 Cameroon 2.113
98 Uganda 2.121
99 Madagascar 2.124
99 Tajikistan 2.124
101 Liberia 2.131
102 Mali 2.132
103 Sri Lanka 2.145
104 Republic of Congo 2.148
105 Kazakhstan 2.151
106 Saudi Arabia 2.178
107 Haiti 2.179
108 Cambodia 2.207
109 Belarus 2.208
110 Uzbekistan 2.219
111 Egypt 2.220
111 El Salvador 2.220
113 Jamaica 2.222
114 Benin 2.231
115 Armenia 2.238
116 Niger 2.241
117 Turkmenistan 2.242
118 Bahrain 2.247
119 Rwanda 2.250
120 Kenya 2.252
121 Algeria 2.255
122 Eritrea 2.264
123 Venezuela 2.278
124 Guatemala 2.287
125 Mauritania 2.301
126 Thailand 2.303
127 South Africa 2.321
128 Iran 2.324
129 Honduras 2.339
130 Turkey 2.344
131 Kyrgyz Republic 2.359
132 Azerbaijan 2.360
133 Philippines 2.415
134 Cote d’Ivoire 2.419
135 Mexico 2.445
136 Lebanon 2.459
137 Ethiopia 2.504
138 Burundi 2.524
139 Myanmar 2.525
140 Zimbabwe 2.538
141 Georgia 2.541
142 India 2.549
143 Yemen 2.601
144 Colombia 2.625
145 Chad 2.671
146 Nigeria 2.801
147 Libya 2.830
147 Syria 2.830
149 Pakistan 2.833
150 Israel 2.842
151 Central African Republic 2.872
152 North Korea 2.932
153 Russia 2.938
154 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3.073
155 Iraq 3.192
156 Sudan 3.193
157 Afghanistan 3.252
158 Somalia 3.392

[Peyrol]

City of Napoli alone has dragged down Italy by at least 10 positions :lol:

[Osprey]

City of Napoli alone has dragged down Italy by at least 10 positions :lol:
Reminds me of
Neapolitan Gangs in Sherlock Holmes novels. Especially the Red Circle.

[Peyrol]

Reminds me of
Neapolitan Gangs in Sherlock Holmes novels. Especially the Red Circle.

It's a breautiful southern city, very pictoresque and with great food and nice people, but some districts are worse than some NYC ones like Lower Bronx, Brighton Beach or East Harlem.

[SilverKnight]

Stupid people follow whatever their 'masters' gave them.
A couple of 100+(IQ) nigger shamen walked in, hypnotised the lot with their weird tricks, told them to follow some wacky traditions which are very 'peaceful' and lo, you get Botswana.

A few individuals aren't a good example of collective society, but society itself (millions of people in such country) build together its present country to success. It's amazing how some people bash SSA countries, even the successful one with pity excuses on how they obtained their success, instead of just admitted they did it because they worked together to make it work and broke the chains of their retrogressive ancestral culture, because as humans everything can be achieved when the vicious retrogressive cultural circle is broken, pretty much.

[PeacefulCaribbeanDutch]

well China is right under USA and they are mostly one race

[Edelmann]

You want love and peace? Head to Iceland...

... and ruin it for them.

[SilverKnight]

... and ruin it for them.

Well guessing by a reader who wants to seek peace and harmony, he/she wouldn't, rather be part of it. ?

[Útrám]

This can be attributed to the difficulty of being anonymous in a sparsely populated country and more importantly the high standard of living. In historic times this country was well-known for it's violence.

We may want you to believe differently but Icelanders are a rather unpleasant people, overly-reserved, self-involved, rude and sulky. We have all of the ingredients needed for berserk, we're just kept occupied by modern distractions. Take away facebook and our flat screen TVs and you'll get some violence.

[Fortis in Arduis]

Haiti is less violent than Russia.

?

[PeacefulCaribbeanDutch]

china is monoracial and they have almost same violence as USA

it has to do with many other things than Race

mostly that people from historically and genetically from uncivilized societies find it hard to cope to city life because it is not within their nature.

but also most likely it is a cultural thing and population.

You can't compare countries to iceland.. berlin has a larger population iceland.

[Pallantides]

"violence and crime is a race problem"

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9964/irish10.jpg


This can be attributed to the difficulty of being anonymous in a sparsely populated country and more importantly the high standard of living. In historic times this country was well-known for it's violence.

We may want you to believe differently but Icelanders are a rather unpleasant people, overly-reserved, self-involved, rude and sulky. We have all of the ingredients needed for berserk, we're just kept occupied by modern distractions. Take away facebook and our flat screen TVs and you'll get some violence.

Northern Europe got a history of violence, it's a wonder we are so peaceful these days.