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Originally posted by fotze@Mar 1 2005, 02:44 PM
Another shooting at a Calgary 'eatery', if Burger King can be called that.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/N...945892-sun.html
Can anyone more familiar with the Asian gang thing enlighten me on this?
It used to be loser white boys pretending to be black back in my teenage days, now it seems to be asian guys pretending to be from Compton. Except instead of growing up in poverty without a father these guys have been given a BMW from their folks, just seems hilarious if not for the bullets.
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Believe it or not, it's not about "pretending to be black", nor is it about "pretending to be from Compton". I'm not really sure what you mean by that exactly, although I have an idea, I would rather ignore such sweeping generalizations.
I am Asian, but I don't feel my being Asian will enlighten you anymore than someone who isn't Asian.
When it comes down to it, these hooligans (regardless of race) do what they do because of the glamourization of gangsters they see. In some cases, the violence occurs directly because of money (ie. competition among rivals for "business" etc) but in other cases (which you eluded to) it has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with how they feel they'll be perceived by their peers when they see their actions.
I don't condone what they do by any means, but I have come across people who are like that in the past, so I do know some of the motives behind what they do.
As these thugs get older, despite sounding like a cliche, the truth is that once they're "in", it's hard to get out. What makes it so hard has more to do with getting comfortable with the money they have though, and not much to do with the misconception that they are some how obliged to stay in the "gang". True organized "gangs" don't really exist anymore anyway, these people basically have groups of friends like you and I, who all happen to share common misled perceptions of the world.
Again, I'm not claiming to be an expert but I speak from knowledge I've gained through friendships which have existed in the past.