Culture can be the biggest influence in an individuals life. Humans aren’t able to choose where they want to live or to whom they want to be raised by. This is why culture limits our free choice and our ability to socially interact.. Income inequality and poverty has a huge impact on our society and as individuals, it correlates with child abuse, drug use, and crime among Americans. It was interesting to read that there are many countries that have really strict policies among firearms, I was appalled when he mentioned that there are only about a dozen deaths a year in other countries due to handheld guns, but in America there are about 15,000 murders a year, along with 18,000 individuals that commit suicide and 1,500 that accidentally die because of firearms. “American children are twelve times more likely to die from gun injuries than are youngsters in other industrialized nations” (Glassner, Barry The Culture Of Fear, Pg 109 Mapping the Social Landscape, 7th edition) Children in America should not be living in fear of loosing their lives by a man made machine, I believe America needs to have a more secured and monitored view when it comes to the sale of firearms.
Many points were mentioned in “The Culture Of Fear” by Barry Glassner, from violence among teens to the way Americans have easy access to firearms. Young individuals were getting influenced by the media and the way they portrayed mass shootings. This effects people in a macro and a micro way, crime can be something psychological so it can cause someone to do something that might be wrong and immoral due to economical and social struggles and in a macro way it can cause other people to get hurt or possibly lose their lives. Glassner also mentioned that after the 1995 Oklahoma explosion, Arabs and middle eastern folk were given a bad name and a bad view of they’re culture. After that incident, any sort of bomb going off in America would always lead to fingers b...