Child Abuse

I think there are many effects of violence on the American culture. I believe the major one is child abuse. I feel this also affects the behavior of children every day. Ishmael Beah gets tied up naked to be tortured. No one can trust him so they are always using violence as a result. After the war, these ways continued which hurts the American culture. Ishmael Beah has no choice and neither do kids now days that are getting abused. This usually makes kids more willing to be violent. This effects their school work, friendships, and daily life. In some cases, can even result in death.

http://www.childhelp.org/pages/statistics

Exploration Six Part Two

Many adults I know enjoy watching the news on a daily basis. It has a constant flow of negative and violent information. When the war on Iraq started a few years back, all this news was flooding the television. It was played and replayed. Americans saw those images and it angered them. People didn't like seeing their fellow Americans suffering and wanted revenge. Anger often causes feelings of revenge. If those feelings are not dealt with, they can cause people to become violent.

Here is some information explaining how Americans could become even more aggressive by viewing violence:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1986.tb00246.x/abstract

Children who have witnessed violence are greatly affected by it. They begin to act out and become angry. It is very hard for children to understand their feelings and how to cope since young children are just learning how to sort out their feelings.

Here is more information and facts about how children cope with war and violence:

http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/Key-Facts-Children-and-the-News.pdf

After watching so many movies that have violence in them, people can become immune to some of the effects of it after a while. At first when someone sees a violent movie, they grimace and cover their eyes, and may have nightmares about it later. Eventually, after seeing more violence in movies, we can watch it and process it differently. We don't grimace or cover our eyes anymore. We have become calloused.

This can start at a very young age. I found this article which uses children for an example. Please notice the first bullet point in this article:

http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/children_and_tv_violence

Impact of violence

American culture is affected by war and violence because it begins to cause many American people to be prejudice toward certain races. I think that after the September 11 attacks that many people became stereotypical of Muslims, or anyone who they thought may look like a terrorist. This can cause the children to grow up thinking that all Muslims are bad and shouldn’t be trusted. In this case it could cause many problems for American culture. I believe it does affect our behavior because for me anyways for a short time it changed my thoughts and how I viewed Muslims. It obviously didn’t last forever, but it was still impactful.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148619504000700

This article told about the terrorist attacks and the affect they had on the airlines in the US. Basically the trust in american culture got very low, not only for muslims, but for everyone who wanted to fly. Airport seccurity rose extremely and they got more strict on what you could or couldn't bring onto a plane. Some people even get pulled aside now for just looking suspicious and they are given a patdown check. We are unable to trust people anymore because there are too many bad people out there so that is why preventions are taken to control terrorism.

impact of war on children

War as truly affected American culture. I country was started because a war was fought between the US and Britain and the United States has been at war for every century it’s been a country. A country that is based of war affects children at young ages. War tells them it’s okay to be violent to get want you want. We are truly effect by war now in the modern age because big events are televised daily. Ever since war has been televised there as has been internal conflict been people of the United States. As a kid a life during a war, I have seen so much anger towards other people and seen anger towards other people affect the way people view other people.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=J-82yrWR0MMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA83&dq=effects+of+war+on+children&ots=aUF2ih5I2l&sig=JkQedXmN86PR1Evc60zmjyTNXWM#v=onepage&q=effects%20of%20war%20on%20children&f=false

This book is about the effect of war and parental deployment upon children and adolescents. This was written after Persian Gulf War.

Joshes thoughts of violence on children

War and violence have a lessened impact on Americans however this is mostly due to the fact that it never occurs close to home. However while lessened the reactions of fear and bigotry are largely the same. For instance when the war with Iraq started people became less trusting of anyone from the Middle East and some even beat up people from there. They just assume that if you were Muslim it must make you a terrorist and you should be punished or shunned for the beliefs that you hold. As for its effect on children I can say that it is nowhere near as bad as using them for soldiers but it can be bad for their ideals. Scared parents teach their children and in times of war it can give birth to new negative views of other ethnicities, races, and cultures. It’s passing down the old hatreds to the new generation and it’s been going on for centuries.

This article talks more about the effects of violence on children
http://www.redcross.int/en/mag/magazine2003_3/4-9.html

VideoGame Violence

It is obvious in this book that violence has changed the way people act. In America violence is not to this extent, but is still very prevalent. In our culture violence is everywhere, especially in the media and entertainment. One of the biggest effects on children is growing up playing video games, most of which have extremely violent content. A study done by Journal of Adolescence shows that the effects of these games are severe. Their study showed that "adolescents who expose themselves to greateramounts of video game violence were more hostile, reported getting into arguments with teachers more frequently, were more likely to be involved in physical fights, and performed more poorly in school." With the average kid playing video games for more than seven hours a week, and 89% of all video games containing violent content this is a serious problem. Out of the many studies done on this subject a large percent of them found a strong connection between playing violent video games and a higher amount of aggressive behavior and aggressive emotions. The effects of violent video games has been said to lead kids to act out violently. These games glorify violence from war to gangs, and make it seem like something kids would want to be a part of; this is why parents need to monitor the amount of violent games their kids are playing.
http://www.carlitoergosum.nl/pics/Violent-Videogames.pdf

Child Violence

I think there is a lot of violence in the American culture . There is about 2 percent of people are jail. In culture we have TV and game that accept violence to show to children. There are movies and game that killed people. People killed their children or themselves because they lost their jobs or something happened. The the TV as a lot is affect the young children and the TV show as lot violence.When children see their family doing the violence and they must like copy their parent act. Children watch TV allot in their life so the TV can power their mindset to doing violence things.

http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/children_and_tv_violence