A Culture of Violence

A culture of violence may non always go spy by large number, especially those who be support within a community. The closeness of the nation therein, together with a fixed mental capacity or opinion about the community, may prevent residents from realizing or accepting the point that things have changed for the worse.Moreover, there is the possibility that people might get too self-satisfied that they would no longer bother to order key rewards, such as those involving attitudes or cultures that need to be changed.Article SummaryThe humbug of Reena Virk, a fourteen year old, East Indian girl, illustrates this point. In Reena Virks short life and l wizly(a) death swept away a 14-year- old girl beaten by the very teens she wanted as friends was re primary(prenominal)ing to the cold salt-water, Cernetig tells a unequivocal story of a girl coming from a minority group who, for this reason, desperately tries to couple in her new surroundings.Being taken from her home, s he finds herself in a new but hostile environment where teenagers already knew each other. It did not help Reena at all that she was overweight. Thus, she got picked on by the other teenagers in her school.However, this classic story turned out worse than it should have. While the usual story ends happily, with the grotesque duckling fitting in after sometime, this one ended, quite tragically, in Reenas death.Unbeknownst to the local community, small groups of teenagers in the local schools had been forming gangs that be similar to those seen in television shows featuring Los Angeles gangs (Cernetig). Moreover, these teenagers bet to have been influenced by songs and shows that abound in mainstream media, which all glorify violence and the proliferation of gangs.Examples of these media are what Cernetig calls gangsta-rap CDs (Cernetig). This influence has gone to the extent of closing up with a murdered unripe girl, without anyone taking responsibility for it, despite the fa ct that some(prenominal) suspects have already been grok (Cernetig).The story gets more notorious because of the quell with which Reenas body was found. One week has passed before the police were able to direct her body. Moreover, their theory on the case had been built largely on speculations based on stories that had circulated about town.AnalysisReenas story raises several issues for critical analysis. The first one involves the medias portrayal of an L.A. gang. This is a crucial issue in the story because this was apparently the main reason why people at very young ages are overt to violence. Worse, the media is shown to be primarily responsible for edifice a certain image of a gang as cool or fun.