The first European I knew was an exchange student from Sweden.
To say he was oblivious to danger was an understatement.
“You can’t go in that neighborhood it’s full of pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, addicts and all sorts of bad people” we would tell him.
“Oh no they won’t hurt you” he’d respond.
“To say he was oblivious to danger was an understatement.”
I was working with a liberal guy. He never locked his apartment door. He was living in a large apartment complex. Even the other more liberal leaning workers thought he was being less than prudent. But he said, “Naw, you’re overstating the danger.” Did anything bad happen to him? I left before it did.
My uncle owned several apartment complexes. He said, “if on average five percent of the people are some variety of criminal and you have 100 people in your complex, five of them are badness waiting for an opportunity to happen.” I planned on making myself hard enough that someone else would provide that opportunity.