Canadians pretty much fit the same profile, unless one is aboriginal one is an immigrant or a descendent of an immigrant. I think the point was that if the US is peace-loving, why is the violent crime rate 3 x that of its northern neighbour. The counterpoint was that Canada was apparently a white-bread society, without an ethnic mix like the US. Pure BS. Hence the ethnic mix chart. Perhaps a better slice is the number of new citizens per capita. See the link. (I should credit the poster who first used nationmaster; it is nice and easy to use)

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/im...ips-per-capita

Now we are probably going to hear that all the crime in the US is from illegal aliens.

As to your second point, I don't have a comment on which country I would rather have at my border, but know that for all the ribbing we give the USA (peace-loving?), I highly value the relations that our two countries and peoples maintain. That long, unguarded border is a precious thing.

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