Why do ghetto people behave so much more differently than regular people?

[Danioover9000]

@NightHawkBuzz  Was the experience of this Ghetto Gchool so bad that you had to make 2 threads about this Ghetto school? I swear I saw this thread couple of weeks ago...

[Ulax]

Fucked up home lives

[Brittany]

On 7/13/2024 at 7:26 AM, Basman said:

There's also a culture of glorifying SD stage red level behavior, like being violent, impulsive and crass. I remember this culture infecting the minds of classmates when I was in high school and them subsequently acting out in scummy ways. Meanwhile their parents worked for oil companies and they lived in one of the wealthiest areas in the world.

I agree with this.

Ghetto Culture is also being romanticized by the media. It is an aesthetic now.

So sometimes a person who is ghetto might come from a wealthy family.

On 7/13/2024 at 9:46 PM, BEWISE said:

The world is a Ghetto LOL....

Social media, especially, is very ghetto.

It's literally like living in the digital-hood. haha

If you spend too much time on social media, you may end up full of anger and becoming very ghetto.

And then sometimes that ghetto-ness of social media, bleeds into real life

Edited July 19 by Brittany

[NightHawkBuzz]

 

On 7/18/2024 at 10:04 PM, Ulax said:

Fucked up home lives

@Ulax It's horrible because then they act like this at school and it's terrible to be around. 

[NightHawkBuzz]

On 7/14/2024 at 3:48 AM, Ramanujan said:

the people at the bottom of pyramid are animals

@Ramanujan Yeah I agree they really are and they are terrible to be around. 

[NightHawkBuzz]

On 7/15/2024 at 7:39 AM, Consept said:

I know when you use "ghetto" youre making reference to poor and black, but this question is more why do those in poverty act differently? 

Yeah I mean you are right in a way. I meant poor and black but I also meant poor in general. There were kids who went to my school that were poor white kids that acted ghetto as well. It was mostly black but there was also other races as well like white and hispanic so it wasn't just black. 

 

On 7/15/2024 at 7:39 AM, Consept said:

If you compare this with a middle class family, they do not have the same fear of financial, survival issues or physical danger, they most likely have a home with 2 parents who are able to instill confidence in their children and so they are not as susceptible to fall in with gangs and low level criminality. 

Because an impoverished community doesnt have as much opportunity, the people who kids see as successful are usually criminals. This sets the ways to achieve as being a criminal. To use a metaphor, if you think of a plant, it always wants to get to the light, if its a healthy plant outside absorbing sun, it will grow strong, upward and green, if its cut off from light in a dark room, but maybe theres a crack of light it will grow crooked and discoloured. Its still doing everything it can to find the light but it will not be as healthy as the plant that grows in good conditions. 

So if a young child is taught through experience that it will get results with being aggressive and committing crimes, then they will do that. 

I will caveat to say that if there is a strong family that grows up in poverty and is able to instil healthy values into their kids, those kids can definitely transcend their environment. A good example of this is when immigrants go to the US or UK and maybe in their country they were successful but in the western country they have to start from scratch and live in poor areas, usually their children do very well and dont fall into the ghetto culture. 

People often dont recognise the advantage of growing up middle class, not saying its perfect because you could definitely have shitty parents, but the general advantage you have over poor people is incredible, but many take it for granted and blame those in poverty for their circumstances. 

@Consept Yeah I mean I just think it is horrible how they act. I mean it was awful being around them and it was a complete disaster being there. It was very traumatizing being there. 

[Spiritual Warfare]

My guess would be because they've never felt respected or cared about by anyone, and they believe that putting on an “attitude” will get them respect (and attention) that they wouldn't otherwise receive on their own merit.

It's probably also a self-defense mechanism to protect their actually fragile egos from the abuse they're accustomed to in their rough culture, which is a culture of self-degradation, ruthless envy, teasing, and bullying, and very little compassion, respect or kindness.

People don't come out of the womb wired to act “ghetto”; they learn to behave that way from their mothers, schoolmates, neighbors, and the influences of cultural media.

The way that people treat others is usually a reflection of the behaviors that have been modeled to them and of how they've been treated themselves.

The way I've seen many “ghetto” women treating their kids in public is tragic—-cussing at them, threatening to hit them (who knows what they do at home), and being generally harsh and gruff with them, as though the children are a burden on their life.

Imagine how growing up with such a mother (and having a father you never see and may not even know the identity of because he abandoned your mother when she got pregnant, as he did other women) will affect a child's self-esteem and self-respect.

Then they go to a public school full of kids like themselves who act out the verbal and physical aggression and abuse they've received from their mothers—-and the emotional incontinence, and the lack of manners and respect for others they were never taught—on each other.

And the entertainment media that their unscrupulous parents allow them to watch and listen to instruct them in all the behaviors of vice and degeneracy, telling them that those things are what is “cool” and admirable. There is no one to teach them otherwise, either at home or at school or in their neighborhood.

Being ostentatious and loud, demanding and rude, vulgar, aggressive, belligerent, promiscuous, irresponsible, and ignorant of etiquette and decorum, all come from the examples that have been set for them, the lack of constructive discipline, and a life of emotional neglect and abuse by people who should have nurtured them.

Pity people like that; they don't know any better. Had they been raised differently, they would think and behave differently. That doesn't excuse their poor behaviors, but it can and should create some compassionate understanding for those who were unfortunate in the circumstances of their birth in those who have been more fortunate.