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Males, Media, and Violence
Why are American men so violent? Why are our crime rates higher than any other countries and why is such a disproportionate percentage of the violence and crime committed by men? One has to begin to think that there are some major issues with the men in our society and the culture in which they grew up in, but my question is; why are American men so violent? Is it the movies we watch? The games we play? The music we listen to or the role models we look up to? There is no single cause and affect answer. Media as a whole is responsible for the high violence rates among men in our society. Rather then blaming a violent video game or movie for the behavior you have to look at the media from a broad point of view. Understand the affect that the media has upon our society and how it can influence us.
Now I am not trying to use the media as a fall boy, blaming every incident of a man shooting another man or beating his wife on the media. Instead I want to......

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