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.