2. “The communitarian spirit at the foundation of Japanese culture seems to function even more efficiently under the stress of disaster, he said. The natural American inclination is to operate independently. “So you do everything you can to protect your own interests with the understanding that, in a rather free-market way, everybody else is going to do the same. And that order will come out of this sort of invisible hand."”

– This is frankly just a dig at the right wing, as Sailer mentions. Where is the evidence that this is due to free market capitalism? In capitalist societies, you have income gaps; in communist countries, the gap between the top and the bottom is actually even higher, because all the wealth is in the hands of the elites. As I mentioned above, reading into Katrina you find out about a group of whites in the middle of it, who acted in a very organized, group defense mode, to the benefit of the group. In general, you see whites helping each other and the community after a disaster. Whites and charitable acts go hand in hand, regardless of whether or not they live under free market societies. Probably the real reason nonsense ideas like those spouted off in the article have been allowed to persist in the west at all. Lets also consider that the wealth in free market capitalist societies allows them to make buildings, etc that are more resistant to disaster, and provide better response teams to deal with disasters. There was an earthquake in Chile about a month after the Haitian earthquake, and despite the fact that the Chilean earthquake was almost 100x stronger (7 vs 8.8) the Chileans dealt with it far better both in preparing ahead of time and in dealing with it at the time of the accident. Chile is a model of free-market capitalism in South America, and you simply did not have the looting going on there that you had in Haiti (or the rapes, murders, etc). Perhaps not surprisingly, the population of Chile is largely descended from European whites, whereas the population of Haiti is nearly entirely black.

"Are none of you able to read? I mean like not a single one of you? The articles are omitting a couple of things (like how constant racial grievance talk and excusing black violence causes more of it) but the sole point that the article does make seems rather sensible, to wit: Societies with less of an income and lifestyle gap – particularly when they focus less on the cult of the individual – have less crime of all sorts. "

– You want to think through that one again? The article states:

1. “To Merry White, an anthropology professor at Boston University who studies Japanese culture , the real question is why looting and disorder exist in American society. She attributes it largely to social alienation and class gaps.

"There IS some alienation and indeed some class gaps in Japan too but violence, and taking what belongs to others, are simply not culturally approved or supported," White said in an e-mail.”

-If ‘class gaps’ are the issue then why do poor whites not carry on like the black Katrina looters when a disaster strikes? There were a group of whites stuck in the middle of Katrina in the Superdome who acted very organized, pulled together as a group to protect each other and especially help and protect the women in their group. Why didn’t the blacks act this way? Why are the rates of theft in general so much higher among poor blacks than poor whites? If ‘social alienation’ is the reason than why do you find these problems much worse in societies that are nearly 100% black such as in Zimbabwe, and Haiti? Shouldn’t they have less ‘class gaps’ and ‘social alienation’ there? Why in cities that are predominantly black, such as Detroit, DC, and Baltimore, do you find the highest crime rates of related crimes like burglary, robbery, assault, etc? Why, when S. Africa is 80-90% black (depending on how you define black) do you see vastly higher rates of black crime per capita than white crime; black government has been in power for a generation now, and there are plenty of poor whites there. If Dr. White’s ideas are true, shouldn’t we see the whites doing the robbing and not blacks?