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Originally Posted by activeStick
I've always thought it'd be a fascinating study if a sociologist carried out a multi-year study on the factors that drive so many in the Lower Mainland to that lifestyle because like you said, it's quite unique and pulls the young and not so young in, with people across all ethnicities and cultures, including third/fourth gen Canadians!
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One thing I've noticed is that kids and young adults (and even just plain old adults) seem to get a lot more money from their parents than I, or people I knew did, growing up. In order to hang out with these "gangster" groups you need a certain level of affluence to even start out. You need the car, tattoos, clothes, jewelry, etc...Unless you start out with a certain level of affluence, you aren't going to fit in.
Once again, I don't think a lot of these kids showing up in the media or getting killed are even the real gangsters, in the sense that they aren't the ones moving large quantities of drugs. The biker and more traditional gangs (ex. Triads) still run that business. They are more than content to use these kids as middle men and let them take the fall, while the real gangsters make the money. These gangsters are more customers than drug dealers themselves.