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In Brazil the punishment for murder is lesser than many other crimes, leading to people murdering investigators (or in one particularly infamous case, a mayor murdered two environmental cops that were going to investigate his farm, got convicted, but still got re-elected).

Also firing a gun and not hitting anything also has a harsher punishment than hitting someone, so unless you are a cop that need to draw attention or something, if you need to fire a gun, you need to make sure you will hit someone.




The general culture of the Central and South America is actually pretty similar to China and other Asian countries.


Did you mean "general disregard of the law" by "culture"? Because the cultures are light years apart.


Are they? Which culture do you feel is more ahead in terms of trust?


That's a very narrow perspective. There are (possibly literally) uncountably many other dimensions of culture than level of trust in society.


Multiple citations needed.


You don't need a research paper to see the similarities. Both are low trust societies with a strong focus on a clan mentality needed for protection from the aforementioned low trust society i.e. bribing officials high and low, using family connections to get access to jobs, real food and real medicine; and so on

When I think about it, I feel that it's one of the reasons that Asian family ties tend to weaken when they migrate to the West. Societal trust is a lot higher here so there's less need to rely on your family.

关系 is important everywhere, but it's way more important in low trust societies.




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