Comments on: Failing in the suburbs http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/failing-in-the-suburbs/ Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Engineer-Poet http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/failing-in-the-suburbs/#comment-45862 Engineer-Poet Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:33:49 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8619#comment-45862 These attitudes and values need to be discouraged, even punished. Also, if Jesselyn’s parents are illegal immigrants they need to be deported along with their children.  Let the kids see first-hand what a nation which despises education comes to, and maybe they'll try to build Mexico up instead of tearing the USA down. These attitudes and values need to be discouraged, even punished.

Also, if Jesselyn’s parents are illegal immigrants they need to be deported along with their children.  Let the kids see first-hand what a nation which despises education comes to, and maybe they’ll try to build Mexico up instead of tearing the USA down.

]]> By: greifer http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/failing-in-the-suburbs/#comment-45861 greifer Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:20:55 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8619#comment-45861 read Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrynple read Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrynple

]]> By: gbl3rd http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/failing-in-the-suburbs/#comment-45860 gbl3rd Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:33:28 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8619#comment-45860 Is this really a new problem? I knew several upper middle class black kids in the 70s and 80s who imitated thugs and insisted they were not upper middle class. The comic strips Boonedocks, and Kudzu addressed this. There was a film about the son of a gubernatorial candidate who wanted to be a rapper. According to some movies organized crime started in the immigrant communities. Look at the Somalis kids from Minnesota who went back to be holy warriors. To many adolescents being a bad guy has always looked like more fun than conforming in a capitalist society. Is this really a new problem? I knew several upper middle class black kids in the 70s and 80s who imitated thugs and insisted they were not upper middle class. The comic strips Boonedocks, and Kudzu addressed this. There was a film about the son of a gubernatorial candidate who wanted to be a rapper. According to some movies organized crime started in the immigrant communities. Look at the Somalis kids from Minnesota who went back to be holy warriors.

To many adolescents being a bad guy has always looked like more fun than conforming in a capitalist society.

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