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An idea I have been contemplating:
Despite how incidents of unrest and incivility, such as shoplifting, go viral on Twitter and the perceived widespread decline and decay of American society and the breakdown of law and order, Americans a , in large, better-behaved than any other society, and are better behaved now than in the past, compared to even in the Middle East under Islamic law, compared to much of Europe. Western Europe seems to have constant protests and riots, whereas in the US it was limited to 2020 after George Floyd's death, but more contained and ended abruptly.
I wonder if Europeans feel the same way.
"We might have had a little self-contained unrest, but at least we aren't the French."
Social media coverage is going to correlate harder with narrative than with actual impact. We Americans have some of the most integrated social media around. Seems plausible that we'd get the strongest effects. We certainly don't have the level of chaos that you'd see from an actual insurgency.
On the flip side, there's a long tradition of Europeans calling us rambunctious, uncouth, or politically unstable. Some of that was surely due to our Special Relationship with the Brits, but still, we don't have a reputation for docility.
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