Violence is a really interesting topic but also hard to understand for me. Some people abuse others and show their power with violence. Some people abuse other because of some psychological trauma that they might’ve seen or being part of. However, it is just really hard for me to understand why someone would ever want to hurt, abuse or denigrate someone and not having any remorse and feel good about it. Violence in high school and college campuses has been really “popular” on the past couple of years. I found really interesting how according to this chapter, this type of violence is actually increasing. I think it is really sad and unfortunate that someone feels the need to kill kids and young adults.
The second thing that caught my eye was the factors contributing violence. I think community factors and societal factors were the ones that caught my eye the most. I think because for most of us, we went to public high schools, I went to a vocational school which means that there were kids from all different towns. Unlike regular public schools were most kids that are in that school are from the same town, usually similar economic status, my school was from 5-6 different towns. This means that we all had different economic status and even raise since some towns are often more predominant on a raise than others. My point with this is that we never really knew what was going on in anyone’s house and sometimes some kids had abusive fathers and that is all they saw. As well as culture, I think this plays a really important role because for some cultures or nationalities, the man will always be the bread provider and the boss of the house. In some cases this might mean that the father could psychologically or even psychically abuse the mother and it would be consider normal because that was part of our norms. Because this is what kids saw and consider normal or maybe just traumatized the kid, they could carry on this trauma or set of events and use it against their partner or child.
Social Networking Safety was a really good summary of all the precautions that we should take when posting on social media or meeting someone. I actually liked this a lot because just a couple of weeks ago, I was going through my Facebook and I noticed that some of the things that I posted years ago were simply not appropriate and actually embarrassing for me right now. I think when we are teenagers, we think that we know it all and that the things we post might be funny or just how we feel. However, years later all I can think about is what if someone from work sees it or if I go for a job interview and they see these kid of posts. Another safety was changing our password constantly. I think we all have so much information and our phones and computers that it is important that we maintain our privacy and make sure that we don’t share our passwords with anyone.
I think this chapter was a good refresh about violence and what are the causes of it as well as the different types of violence, especially since people our age are more prompt to be in some kind of abuse. I think when we are in college we tend to be a little more open, become adults and make our own decisions. However, in college we also experience domestic and sexual abuse as well as harassment and it is important to remember that we have to speak up, talk to authorities and most importantly remember our self-worth.
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