AT VFR, Lawrence Auster offers a possible explanation for why men on the Costa Concordia rushed to save themselves without helping women and children:

While the loss of our culture’s ethos of chivalry is very regrettable, was it the reason the male crew members pushed past the female passengers to get in the life boats? Consider the fact that of the 1,000 crew members, at least 300 were Filipinos and the rest were largely Asian and Latin American. Mario Pellegrini, the deputy mayor of Giglio, who went out on a small boat to offer advice on the best way to get people on to the island, later told the National Post:

“There was total confusion and then mounting panic as the ship tipped further on to its side. I found no officers on board, not only the captain but also no officers, and the rest of the personnel were all Asian and spoke no Italian and also very little English.” [Emphasis added.]

So yes, again, there has been a decline of chivalry in the West, due to feminism and radical individualism. But that is not the explanation for the crew’s unchivalrous behavior, because the crew came overwhelmingly from cultures that are not known for having a tradition of chivalry. An additional factor is diversity. Men who may be willing to risk or even sacrifice their lives for women of their own culture and race, will be much less willing to do so for women of a different culture and race.

Blaming the Costa Concordia disaster on the West’s loss of chivalry is like announcing, “Inequality in America is on the increase,” without mentioning that inequality is increasing because of the influx of poor Third-World immigrants. It’s like saying, “Anti-Semitic violence is on the rise in Europe,” without adding the clarification that the anti-Semitic attacks are all being carried out by Muslims.

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