People who follow Islam are just as foolish as jews and christians. However, here in christian-America, all Muslims are seen as terrorists. The media has part blame for that. However, the actions of the government, I think, are a much larger influence of this ignorant and collective thought. After World War II, christian-America didn't like their dominance over the world being compromised by a more powerful group of Republics. They built a missile base in Turkiye, making the USSR respond by having one built in Cuba. This started the Cold War.
Since then, christian-America has been making all sorts of propaganda about them. After the USSR beat christian-America to space and to Afghanistan, christian-America decided that, while USSR was at bay, they would invade Afghanistan and take credit for defeating terrorism.
From then on, and after the collapse of USSR, they spread propaganda about anyone who follows Islam and classified them all as terrorists. This also "justified" killing millions of innocent people in several countries in western Asia. More so than the 5% of Muslims have killed through suicide bombings.
So after 22 years of bullying countries in western Asia for the credit of stopping terrorists, the 5% of Muslims finally made the decision to respond. They attacked christian-America on American land (for once) and the media was there for every last second. However, the media wasn't there for the slaughter of millions of people in western-Asia unless it was by a Muslim extremist; not an American soldier. That is why the coverage of deaths are so low every week.
If christian-America had just stayed out of western-Asia, no one would have come to attack us in our backyard. The Imperial States of chrsitian-America has been marching around in other people's backyards for too long. Other countries need protection against christian-America so that they can have the international rights that every country deserves.
America has the highest rate of homicide in the world. America also has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world. Every culture starts with the well-being of its children. As it is, this problem starts with how the children of the United States are being raised. According to the United States' media; violent music, violent television, and adult entertainment are making its children troubled and vilolent growing up. America would like that to be the problem. The first amendment can be our greatest advantage, here in America, but it can also be our greatest folley.
Music is not causing children to become troubled. Music, if anything, helps children and teenagers get over their problems. However, not all genres of music is like this. Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Nu Metal, Country; these genres of music are not targeted by the media. Genres of music that are targeted by the media include certain sub-genres of Metal, Rap, and Punk Rock. Genres that are accepted by the main stream are the same as, or sometimes even more harmful, than genres that are.
Generally speaking, much of Alternative Rock and Nu Metal are about the same as other sub-genres of Metal and Rap. Alternative Rock and Nu Metal have much in common with other sub-genres of Metal. However, sub-genres of Metal; excluding Nu Metal; tend to be deeper and more artistic than genres accepted by the media. In fact, some Alternative Rock can be more vulgur and tasteless than any genre of Metal. One example is Alternative Rock band Avenged Sevenfold, who made a song called "A Little Piece of Heaven"; a song about about brutally stabbing and killing an ex-girlfriend, eating her eyes, and having sex with her dead body. "A Little Piece of Heaven" is accepted by the main-stream media. Yet Rap and Metal are worse. Country is a genre which has the most listeners who commit suicide. It is not a direct cause of the suicides, but most of the people who commit suicides listen to country.
Though Rap has more and more songs about disrespect for women, clubbing, and the glorification of drug use; there are still a lot of songs within the genre that are in good taste and sometimes even quite artistic. Songs in certain sub-genres of Metal primarilly set an angry or depressive mood and though they usually portray unhappy scenarios, the point to most songs like this is to get over negative feelings and give oneself higher value than others may give. The point is that the media uses music as a scapegoat or as a cop-out answer to the problem.
Violence is nothing brand new. American history is filled with violent scenarios. Also, other countries around the world have the same violent programming that we do in America. Other countries, like Canada, have just as many guns as in America. Guns are legal in many countries, just like America. In England, there are more broken families than in America; as there are in many other countries. People in other countries do a lot of different, and sometimes more powerful, drugs; like Japan, whose people take amphetamines to stay up for days in order to be more productive. Most other countries have more violent histories, filled with wars and insurgents, than America does.
There are obvious answers to why children grow up troubled that are true. One is rape. There are children who are raped by family, friends, even trusted officials such as; teachers, priests, and coaches. Another is abuse. There are parents who take their anger out on thier children and sometimes take it too far.
One major event that changed the mentality of America is the result of World War II. As stated above, the wars weren't a direct cause of people acting violent. The children who grew up in America around that time saw the war end with violent bombings and invasions; as well as the dropping of two atomic bombs over two of Nippon's (Japan's) cities. The result of that war proved, to Americans, that absolute violence is the answer to a crisis or problem. The largest generation of children, in America, came immediatelly after this war. They were taught, by their parents and by the media, that absolute violence was the answer to a problem. So on and so forth the generations were born, being taught the same thing and seeing wars that America fought each and ever year following World War II.
With that being taught, people grew up thinking that violence was also a good way to punish a child. It is the parents who start this cycle. It starts with not properly caring for one's own child when he / she is an infant. Leaving the infant in front of the television is no good way to keep him / her occupied. Setting high expectations for one's own child can create a problem as well. Saying things to make the child feel like he / she is not good enough to achieve whatever it is that the high expectations are set for is not a good motivator; and neither is punishing the child when he / she does not meet that expectation. Punishing a child for not believing in the same god would feel unfair to the child and it will not make him / her believe in that god anymore than he / she did in the first place. Above all; not listening to one's own child, whether or not it is important, deeply troubles a child and makes him / her feel unimportant.
Children have sort of a need to express themselves. When a child feels like no one cares, in response, this child will stop caring for other people. All people grow up in different lifestyles, here in America. Some children take their frustrations out on other children. These children resort to taunting and beating others. Now you've got a bully. Some children grow up seeing bad portrayals of people who are different on television and when thier parents practice discrimination towards people who look different around them. These children grow up turning the anger and guilt they feel on these other children.
The news media is the biggest problem of them all. On the news, in America, are reports of kidnappings of little white girls, murder, the death / murder of a celebrity, a natural disaster, disease, special reports about "what could kill you", and then weather and sports. Coverage of a kidnapping or murder trial can go on for months and sometimes years. The news media is not the only type of media that incites fear on television. The adds and commercials themselves that are aired during any television show at any time also incite fear. Generally speaking, commercials create situations that turn out badly, or even deadly, and imply that these thing could happen to the viewer should the company's product not be purchased or used in their everyday lives.
Another problem that stems from American television is sports. Sports professionals are portrayed as heroes on television and in other types of media. Much like the gladiator of the Roman Empire, sports professionals are presented as, such, superior people. There are children who look up to people like this. Ask yourself this: What does glorifying and rewarding sports preofessionals teach children? The glorification of sports teaches children that physical prowess is more important that intelligence or expressing oneself in a more artistic manner. Glorifying sports is making America dumber, in a way.
In addition, the media's glorifying of things has taught children to do just that. Therefore, children grow up with the "need" to glorify something. Most children that grow up enjoying sports grow to glorify sports. Children who grow up not glorifying sport usually grow to glorify something from their own interests. However, there are children who do not grow up glorifying anything. In fact, as time advances, the number of children growing up learning to glorify something is becoming smaller in America. When a child grows up annoyed or uninterested by the image of the sports professional; some become interested in art, some in music, others in computers, social life, video games, culinary activities, and any variety of other things.
There are children that have come to glorify something harmful yet widely accepted in the rest of the world. Most other children that don't grow up glorifying sports grow up glorifying drugs. This, too, is making America dumber; in a way. In other countries, including ones which have outlawed most or all drugs like America, people never grew up with the need to glorify anything. Things are kept to oneself in most places around the world. Also, not many people misuse drugs like people do in America; which is also a result of glorifying it. Since drugs are getting so popular in America, more and more troubled teenagers and children are starting to use and glorify drugs. Many of these teenagers and children use the drug in order to "escape" from their problems. As a result of glorifying it; most begin to misuse it, whether it is to impress others, because they start to depend on it, or otherwise. Many overdose on the drugs and either become disabled in some way or die.
Many Americans who misuse drugs have no motivation in life, end up dropping out of school and earning a General Education Diploma or nothing at all, and spend all money they obtain to get more and on nothing else. Since there are so many people who are like this, there are that many people without jobs. Unemployment directly affects economies. However, this is not a major problem with America's economy. That is an entirely new subject.
In the end, it is bad parents and the mass media who make America such a deadly place to live. It is also America's collective opinion that absolute violence is the answer to everything. The world will change on its own and no one can do that themselves. America's culture is a dying one. A dying culture is something that can never be revived. It happened to Rome; it happened to Babylon, it will happen to America.
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