Cultural Problems in North America

As all cultures have problems, sociologists have been interested in digging beneath the surface to find out why certain cultures have the problems they do and how participants can alleviate the stress of coping with a problem providing they can adjust to the pressures exerted on them, adapt positively, move away or reinvent themselves. It is not all about succumbing to the power of the dominant social element as alternative living people can attest to, it is about being culturally versatile and learning how to live in different environments.

The US. has recently elected Presidents that have been prompting violence in the name of national security when being able to cross the border between Canada and the US. is still relatively easy. Creating security mechanism like state of the art of digital passport identifiers and such has not reduced any terrorist threat and the greatest threat is what America has done to itself by exporting violence through arm shipments, extending open-ended nonsensical wars that were generated in the name of oil glut and by consequently ignoring the health and educational problems at home not to mention abandoning Katrina victims in 2005 and not responding promptly to the oil spill that took months to cover in the Gulf of Mexico.

Critics ask whether the oil gush there has actually been covered, it is too deep for the average diver to go down and see! Dependency on oil, fear of terrorist groups more so than terror itself with American complicit involvement in trading arms for foreign government turnovers have generated a cultural problem for the established electorate, people want alternative party voices calling for real change instead of constant promises that make the Democrats behave very much like the Republicans by extending the war in Afghanistan.

The late philosopher Popper referred to violence begetting more violence when he talked about how American worship violence on TV and in film. People have reacted against the possession of arms there as in Canada and that has become a social issue with hard liners citing their right to bear arms against what threats there are both real and imagined. Until Bush brought his hate of other cultures to the forefront there was little threat outside those few Nazi training camps and hate groups shouting for a violent counter reaction. Increased violence has then been a large cultural problem for the American way of life if one wants to dream of apple pies and land of abundant opportunity scenarios.