Society
Exploring "Why" questions about Society
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Why does the USA send billions of dollars to other countries when it’s public schools are broke, healthcare is hurting, and infrastructure is crumbling?
Because humanity is important as a whole. We might have crumbled roads, but some places have none.
Why are so many Americans afraid of having voter id laws?
Some 10% of Americans don't have photo-ID, and that group tends to be the elderly and the poor
Why do you need to register to vote, shouldn’t you automatically be registered when you are born and unregistered when you die?
Registering to vote is about making sure that they know you are a citizen (something that is recorded from birth), and making sure that you vote in the proper district for where you live. Your physica
Why are places such as dentists’ offices and banks only open when most of their customers are at work?
Dentists: Because they're in demand enough to make *you* come to *their* preferred hours. If the US for some reason suddenly got 100 million more dentists (that couldn't swap jobs), you can probably e
Why do the richest families not have larger families?
Actually there was a trend toward larger families among the rich. > Hinze says there is evidence that affluent families are beginning to have more children. According to the Council on Contemporary
Why have Canada & USA been more successful at integrating Muslims than Europe?
Muslim immigrants to Europe were primarily unskilled labor, while Muslim immigrants to the U.S. were primarily professionals. So what happened is that Europe developed large, lower class Muslim commun
Why do job applications ask for my ethnicity when they are apparently not going to be used in my application for equality purposes?
Companies are required to ask and keep that information so that it can be reviewed if there were ever a complaint. The company isn't required to hire to maintain any ethnic balance, but they have to s
why are certain products designed so differently in different markets?
Some of it is market preferences, which may simply have been set way back when products were first introduced decades ago. Could also do with things like what surfaces get cleaned most — Americans hav
Why is the U.S. presidential primary election schedule staggered over 5-6 months?
If all states voted on the same day, that would ensure that the candidates would be campaigning in only the largest states. By spreading it out, more people have an opportunity to see and hear the can
Why would the Turkish military attempt a coup against the Turkish government?
The Turkish military has a long standing history of being the liberal safeguard against conservative (Islamist) leaders or groups. Erdogan, who is the current President and leader of the Turkish polit