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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
I think these sorts of concerns are a little unfounded. When we're talking about hip hop & basketball & "urban" culture and all that, we're talking about the dominant form of youth culture in the Anglosphere (and beyond) today, among all races & social classes. It's never been more popular or accepted than it is today. Yet today's generation of young people (again, of every race & social class) is far from being the most violent, sexist, or uneducated.
That sort of criticism strikes me as a little dated if anything. As we've seen time & time again for a few generations, aggressive content whether in music, video games, television, whatever has a lot of appeal, particularly to young males, but in and of itself it doesn't actually lead to violence.
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It would be interesting to see some stats on violent youth crime in the 70s and 80d, but even so it would be hard to say if it's really related to cross-border hip hop culture.
One thing I did do a double-take on was when the two people were shot and killed at Drake's album release party in Toronto, and he and his people refused to cooperate with the police.
That didn't seem like something otherwise respectable people would do in Canada, and is more typical of other places (that shall remained unnamed) than here.
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