Even those tribal peoples extolled by anthropologists as especially “gentle” – for example, the Semai of Malaysia, the Kung of the Kalahari, and the Central Arctic Inuit – turn out to have murder rates that are, relative to population, comparable to Detroit, which has one of the highest murder rates in the United States.
(Em termos de comparação, na primeira metade do século XX, as duas guerras mundiais causaram uma taxa de mortalidade na Europa, de pouco mais de 3%.)