Why do white people have such trouble with controlling their kids?

I swear, immigrant parents don’t have an issue with that. My Mexican mom just had to slap me and would have my attention lmao. My Asian friend can tell you the same thing, and my African friend still gets hit with a sandal by his mom, even at the age of 23 😂

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

It's the other way around here in Norway. Except that Norwegian parents don't need to slap their children for the children to behave. Immigrant children, well boys mostly, on the other hand seem more likely to run around getting under people's feet in supermarkets and so on. The distinction is not so much ethnic as recent immigrant versus long term residents.

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@ninalanyon Why do you feel that?

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@SW-User Observation. The badly behaved children are almost always in groups of people all of whom are not speaking Norwegian. Second and third generation children often speak Norwegian rather than the language of their grandparents.

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@ninalanyon Fair, I can't speak. I live in a small town in Canada, often, even if kind in their roots, talk down of immigrants and I wonder how it spills down upon their children? So those displaced are left with, essentially, children talking down from how their parents learned to?

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@SW-User Not quite sure what you mean. There are problems with integration here in Norway too but I think they might be less than in some other countries. Norwegians are, mostly, quite tolerant of other people so long as that tolerance is reciprocated. But it is still the case that if you have a name that is clearly not Norwegian or not from Scandinavia or North Western Europe you might well be at a disadvantage in the jobs market.