Most countries also have their traditional martial classes with some sort of pride/honor culture that makes them more inclined to private gun ownership (legal or illegal). Criminal classes and tough-guy student groups have guns. There's paramilitaries and equivalents of ROTC.
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If you're not native-born, all you can do is quietly nod and skirt native-born introspection conversations and place your bets according to your own estimates of whether or not you believe their own accounts of themselves.
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The most effective tactic for dealing with native-borns is to indulge their deep-rooted belief that you couldn't possibly understand them or see parts of them they can't see themselves. Don't take them at their own estimation, don't try to communicate your estimation to them.
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It's a bit sad, an acceptance of eternal outsider status no matter how much you learn and understand. But it's also a bit of fun. Like Hercule Poirot exaggerated and played up his foreignness in Britain to seem both more clueless and inscrutable than he actually was.
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I'll add one thing. When a B-grade-TV-star-turned-politician like Trump governs by the American mythology of itself rather than any genuine sense of America, it actually tends to devalue and destroy everything that outsiders actually admire about America. Sad.
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I'm intensely curious. I'm pretty sure that's not sufficient incentive, though.
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This thread is enlightening for this native. I grew up steeped in gun culture. This gives me new perspective, so thank you.
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I wonder if the tendency of natives to feel unknowable is explained by a tendency to be ignorant of other cultures
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