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Originally Posted by GlassCity
A lot, if not most, of Vancouver gang members come from middle class families. Inequality is a problem here, but it's not like it is in other places where the working class often have no other choice. Lack of options is not the main reason for gang violence here.
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There is a tendency to throw the term "middle class' around loosely as if it is a predeterminator or insulator for poverty and certain cultural disposition to societal acts of violent desperation. Truth be told, many folks who think that they are solidly "middle class" are not and are living on a financial ledge in debt! Even so, many youngsters from so called middle class homes cannot find (or sometmes do not want legal) well paying/"good jobs" to sustain their desired AFFLUENT "middle class" lifestyle.....hence the allure of drug gangs. I wonder if Toronto has the same demographics of "middle class" youngsters engaging in street level drug gangs or are they more so the traditional poor immigrant youth from dysfunctional single parent/mother households?
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