News stories about teenagers fighting in around schools in the U.S. are now pretty much a weekly occurrence. I’ll continue to track them here. From the Maryland Gazette:
“After a one-minute video showing two young women engaged in a fist fight at a Fort Washington McDonald’s near Crossland High School surfaced on the video-sharing Web site YouTube, parents, administrators and police say incessant after-school fighting is plaguing the community.
The short clip shows a young female charging into the McDonald’s at 7100 Allentown Road and punching another female, as large crowds of students gather around.”
In a related story (on the same day), the Chicago Tribune reports ‘3 students charged in connection with video of fight posted on YouTube‘: “The video shows one of the 16-year-olds walking up behind another female student, grabbing her hair, punching her repeatedly and slamming her head on a table. The video later shows the victim on the floor being beaten and kicked as other students gather to watch.”
There is a growing culture of performance fighting for YouTube audiences that is infecting areas such as Fort Washington. No less than 15 fight videos from the Crossland High School can be found on YouTube, some of which draw online audiences of over 22,000. The videos that I have seen from various areas across the U.S. usually feature urban Black children, but are also found across the entire spectrum of the U.S. population.
– Dr. Strangelove
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u’ve same in thailand. i guess u’ve all around the globe. as teenagers grow up into what we call “identity”… there’s a testing of limits, isn’t it? a testing of social conventions to realize that emerging identity. a testing of nourishment by peers, the ground we live on ,)
this very ground today has become “mediated”. cmc was an early arena for discussion. these days social relevance _appears_ to be related to _appearance_: website hits, numbers of friends on social networks, ratings … hee hee
human consciousness tries to realize itself. it’s just emerging. sex & violence are traits we all share – ppl always will look, don’t they ,)
thx dr. strangelove ^-^