Teenage Wasteland Entry #3

The article "Teenage Wasteland Suburbia's Dead End kids" by Donna Gaines is from her book where she tells the story of 4 kids that took their life. Kids labeled "Burnouts" failures, outcast, etc. that took their life because of the culture time they was living in. They was teens that didn't do good in school did drugs didn't fit in with society that saw committing suicide was a way out. While reading chapter 3 I connected Nonmaterial culture to the passage. It's these type of culture that its beliefs, knowledge, how to understand the Norms of society. These are things that are passed on to the next generation of kids and becomes a burden.
Chapter 3 is full of different elements of culture and after reading this passage I am culture shock. "Culture shock is the experience of being disoriented because of a lack of knowledge about unfamiliar social situations." This passage is a culture shock to me because i grow up in a urban environment so looking at a suburbia suicided makes me wonder how can. This happen when everyone would know each other. But for kids that grow up thinking that they need to live up to society norms get lost in the process. Then they are label failure and feel like its no hope so they turn killing them self ass a way out just shocks me. I wouldn't think a kid around where I live will see killing their self as a way out and would consider it if they feel like they was a burnout. Culture is alwas changing with the development of the society around it.

Entry #2 Chapter 2 reading - "Association is not Causation "

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Entry # 1: Who I Am

Entry # 1: “Who am I” 

To: Whom It Concern 

         

          Funny, outgoing, carrying these are things that come to mind when I’m asked to describe my self. Then I get stuck I’m from Harlem New York City and am Latin. No kids in BMCC for Criminal justice hopefully to become an ATF agent after more school. With my education in CRJ I would like to go back to California and be a feudal agent.

 I once lived in California when I was younger and got to experience a different way of life. Everything was more layback and I got to feel how it be to be living on my own. I had my own place with my brother I was working and had my own car. Every weekend there was something to do from bon fires to get together at each other’s house. I was sure that moving from New York to California was the best thing that happened but it was short lived. I went back one winter about a year later to see my family in the east coast when I was tricked in to staying.

         My parents didn’t like the freedom I had and thought that the path I was taking I wouldn’t go to college. Then my brother’s ex wife decided to always put me in between their marriage so then my parents thinking I was the cause of their fighting. I went from being on top of world to back to square one. I came back to New York for college and been here since. Now I believe everything happens for a reason. BMCC hasn’t been to bad for me coming back on short notice. I’m in my second year and enjoying it making the best out if it.