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Sometimes I think you US citizen's are out of your minds. Why is it so hard to be a community and trust each other? Is it about the mainstream media, Hollywood,
by fsniper 17y ago
Sometimes I think you US citizen's are out of your minds. Why is it so hard to be a community and trust each other? Is it about the mainstream media, Hollywood, or something else that makes you feel so unsecured?
A child walking to school just a few blocks is a question? In my child hood I walked to school more than fifteen minutes with all my friends. Also I would go out after school and would not come home untill it was dark (also same for all my friends).
I'm not sure about nowadays parent for my country. But I believe they are not that unsecured yet. And let their children walk or travel by themselves whenever it is possible.
(I live in Turkey.)
- gaius 17y agoTo a certain extent it's an artifact of cities like New York which have a very high population turnover. There's little chance for communities to form.
- fsniper 17y agoI think the article was talking about suburbia. In a mega metropolitan city it's hard to be a community. I've never seen an US city but I believe in these big ones schools and children are located in distant places generally. So walking children must be mostly out of question there.
- rjurney 17y agoThe opposite is true: kids in big cities live near their school, generally, while suburban kids - owing to sprawl, are more spread out.
- patio11 17y agoOh, there are plenty of communities in large cities. The problem is that you're not necessarily a member of the ones with the firearms.
- dcurtis 17y agoHonestly, I am getting sick of people starting comments like yours with a negative sentence about the US. Don't let ridiculous stereotypes get in the way of intelligent discussion. I grew up in the US and I did all of those things you mention.
- nkassis 17y agoAgreed and I'm a Canadian who has lived in the US for a while. Every time I go up to see family I get 50 comments like this. And what Fox News reports isn't a representation of Americans as a whole opinion wise. 8 million viewers =/= 300+ million people.
- phreanix 17y agoIt's also kinda hard to make other observations if you've never been to the US and all you've been fed is what the media has chosen to serve you. Not that I feel he was right to make that statement, but speaking as one with relatives in other countries, sometimes stereotypes are all they have to work with. I've stopped counting the number of times I've had to explain to them that not every block in L.A. looks like 'tha streets of compton!'.
- david927 17y agoIt's not negative anymore than the article itself was negative, and that's because it's actually a problem. I grew up in the US, did all those things you mention, and yet I know that it's a big problem in the US. Thus the NYT article. Thus the debate. My sister says Halloween gets less and less popular every year. Fewer and fewer kids come around -- because of the problems of tainted candy. There is no tainted candy. There is no boogey man. America's suburb, move-often nation has made it a big collection of individuals who don't know and don't trust their neighbors. What's wrong with America that it's always looking over its shoulder? What's wrong with a culture that drives their kids to school two blocks away? It's a valid question and deserves less people getting "sick" about the asking of it and more dedicated to the discussing and solving of it.
- fsniper 17y agoI'm sorry to bother you. But this negativity caused because of you media, your state politics, your peoples reactions. It does not come from thin air.