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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone
In terms of regular violent crime you may be right. But there's also issues of poverty and broken families. I listened to an interesting radio program recently that compared the experiences of an Afghan war veteran, and a former drug dealer from Philadelphia, and the similarities in experiences were uncanny. To give some context to the dealer, he came home at the age of 6 to find his mother shot dead, and from there it was all downhill. The difference, I guess, is that the War Veteran comes home from the war zone, the dealer is stuck there.
I don't really think the violent crime in these areas is strictly related to our violent popular culture, rather the violent pop culture in those areas is a symptom of the violence and poverty that is already endemic there. Though I will say that pop culture is responsible for all the "poseurs", but while they're extremely annoying, they're ultimately harmless. |
Oh absolutely, I don't mean to say that culture alone should shoulder the blame, but rather that it's very much part of the problem, and an often overlooked one.
If you ask me, I'd say the biggest driver of violent crime in the US would be poverty, the drug trade/war, and the resulting drag on society it brings in the form of broken families, excessive prison population etc, wasted resource etc.