On the subject of mass killers or serial killers, it’s an issue of individualism and anti-social behavior that’s gone warped beyond imagination to a sane mind, which may be be the reason why there are more of these type of killers in Western nations then there are in developing or non-Western nations.

Not true.

Harris and Klebold obviously didn’t copy Whitman, their direct predecessor. Mass murderers tend to be egotistical and want to do things differently in order to be “remembered.” The last thing they want to be known as are copy cats. This partially explains why there haven’t been anymore Zodiac Killers or Jack the Rippers. Even if there were, we don’t remember them because they were not original.

When I compare what Cho did with what Charles Whitman (the UT of Austin shooter) and Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold did at Columbine I see a difference in Western and non-Western values on violence. All four of these deranged individuals had the same goal: a high body count for a macabre calling card to infamy.

Whitman used a sniper rife and thought that position and precision would create the highest body count. Harris and Klebold had machine pistols and pipe bombs. They thought firepower would create the highest body count. Total body count: 14 and 12 respectively.

Cho’s approach was a lot more straightforward. Lock the doors, get up close and personal and go into each classroom and blast away with two underpowered handguns. Total body count: 32. Doesn’t take a math genius to see that Cho was more efficient. No fancy pipe bombs, no fancy automatic weapons, no fancy sniper rife.

Thus, the Western attitude towards violence tends to lean to a solution involving technology and/or firepower, whereas the non-Western approach seems to be more like a Nike commercial: “Just do it.”

A more sedate example would be America’s reliance on mutually supporting fire bases to pin the Vietcong to geographic specific areas and pound them with artillery to “pacify” the country. What did the Koreans do in Vietnam? They didn’t have America’s firepower and/or technology so they just occupied territory and used efficient violence to scare all the hooches to death so giving rice and shelter to Charlie would be the last thing on their minds.

I attribute this to the West being more acquainted with technology and technological solutions, the industrial revolution being in the late 18th century for the West and industrialization for most non-Western nations being well into the 20th century.

In this age of global terrorist organizations from non-Western and non-industrial (or very recently industrial) nations, the lesson I think we need to learn is that we shouldn’t rely on solutions based on firepower and technology as being the most effective means to an end.

No, it’s not fetish or subservient. East Asian women look like girls. Men want sex with young women. There is a natural attraction to the East Asian women because her physical characteristics are very similar to a young girl; small frame, large cheeks, pouty lips, etc… she looks like a girl to a Western male.
And, the Western male is attractive to the East Asian female. I can’t know why, as I’m a Western male.

If you’re striking out with white chicks, Jing, maybe the problem isn’t your Asian face.

It’s not a matter of being an extrovert, but simply being Asian is a severe penalty in dating and relationships. It is a statistically observable phenomenon. To match an average Joe Blow, an Asian man will require significantly more earning power. In speed dating, white women also display more bias against Asian men.

The problem isn’t whitey stealing our women, but rather Asian women being neutral in regards to relationships and other women being discriminatory. You would think that the two out groups in the whole relationship pyramid, asian men and black women, would get together but it turns out that black women are the most discriminatory regarding dating and the higher up the socio-economic ladder you go, the likelier that they are going to be spinsters. (i.e. Condoleeza)

Gotta agree.

Oh, and yeah, he who thinks North American guys marry Asian women because they are subservient has never been married to a Korean woman.