Your LaLa land analogy does work however, you're suggesting all the races are enclosed into one community, in which yes that may work, but realistically it's not an accurate measurement.
Sorry Dodge, but you are wrong mate, as a measurement, it's one '100%' accurate; I think what you are suggesting is. the interpretation is skewed .. these are two entirely different tihngs mate and they need to be distinguished here.
You can't really just put it down to race.
Oh but I can .. in the example mentoined.
One of my closest friends at school was black, doesn't mean he's twice as likely break into someone's house than i am. If my friend grew up in a council flat in s****horpe surrounded by violence and other people his age acting like a dick, then of course he may end up like them - but he isn't, because of his surrounding area where he was brought up and lives. Now luckily i live in a fairly nice area, so we don't have as much gang violence as a city center, but it does contribute to the behavioral patterns.
Of course peer pressure does add to it, and idolism; following the whole "G-unit gangsta' style" many people follow with their friends. And yes, a black kid is probably more likely to want to be like 50 cent than a white kid, and may want to follow in everything he does, but how he acts is again down to upbringings and surroundings, not the colour of his skin
By asking this question indicates to me you haven' quite grasped what I am stating, or indeed any of the conclusions you can reasonably draw.
And just to try and show how you've misunderstood, I'll ask you a question:- You admit freely a black kid will tend to follow individuals like 50 cent as against white kids [this is not an absolute I know but I genuinely believe it be significant] ... where do you think kids derive their moral codes?
Do you believe that role models do not posses the ability to influence people's behaviour profiles? ..... If you do then it flies in the face of all commonsense and certainly most available data.
If you believe role models do affect behaviours then you can only conclude from the examples you have presented, there is a racial element in certain behaviours ....
It's like saying if A>B and B>C then A must be > C .... well, in my old head is
And don't forget here, we are talking about the hypothetical example I drafted earlier ..
You can't have it both ways Dodge I'm afraid .....
