(7 January 2013, 03:20)Mortblanc Wrote: What is the profile of a prepper in your nation?
Or better yet, what is the definition of a prepper in your nation?
I could not honestly answer that question for over here since there are people that think they are preppers and are not, just as there are people that do not think they ar preppers when they are.
The psychological makeup of that diverse group is also all over the map.
Many people over here are unwilling to be grouped into the catagories of either prepper or survivalist although they engage in similar activities, but different behavior/thought patterns.
Also noted is the difference in the behavior of "thugs" in this country. Most urban thugs would never consider leaving their concrete domain and entering the rural areas. They consider it equil to a death sentence. I worked as a teacher in the prison system for several years and that was a constant.
Rural dwellers here are also a different lot. That is mostly due to our vehicle oriented culture. Everyone drives and owns a vehicle and being 30 miles in the bush is simply 30 minutes from town. What we wind up with is urban/suburban dwellers that never venture into the rural areas, except when they may pass through on a motorway, and rural dwellers that are in the urban environment constantly, but would not live there for any reason.
I fall among the latter.
For a start of there is a vaste difference between a prepper and a survivalist,.. the survivalist may never store items of food or goods, he may simply think that if he has his gun and a few rounds of ammo he will survive, the US I have no doubt has millions of survivalists.
Here we will hardly have any, because we dont have the arms and ammo,.. the exception might be the thug in the city
Your first question is not an easy one to answer,.. a preper here is probably a person who in many ways fears whats coming, maybe not fears for himself, but for family and maybe country,... he cant become a survivalist, so he is forced to become a preper, he has no option open to him other than to store good for that emergency, he is a prepper by difinition because there is no other option open to him other than sit and hope for the best
In your country, as I understand it, the preper and the survivalist seem to almost merge into the same group, because a major part of a US preper is his arms and ammo, he is not simply prepping, he is preparing for war, because of the shear number of weapons he has to be able to defend what he has, ...we might have to,.. but never on such a scale as the US
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