Popular Culture leads to Violence in youth!

In my last entry I was talking about how video games are not the leading cause of teenage violence. So what then would be considered the cause to this violence? Crime rates among youth in Victoria B.C. according to the text “A User’s Guide to Popular Culture” are extremely high. Granted that in the present, 2010, they are not as high as they were in 2000. The reason for this is that there are more programs available after school, within school, before school to help those youth who are finding it difficult to concentrate in school. When youth cannot concentrate they get frustrated, when they get frustrated they get angry, and finally when their angry not always but the majority of the time this leads to violence. This all ties in with popular culture. If video games are considered popular culture and if people are blaming video games for the violence in youth today, then is it not possible that it is in fact Popular Culture that could be the cause of this frustration? Take for instance music. There are many forms of music available now and they are drastically different from conventional folk music. Music such as “Bodies...” by Disturbed or Emotional music, more commonly referred to as “emo” music that more often than not depicts women as the heart breaker which in turn sends men into madness. Sometimes this popular music can really affect someone mentally. If we’re talking about popular music then popular culture encompasses popular music, then it’s safe to say that video games are not the cause of teenage violence, but Popular Culture.