Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Gangs are good for society
"Gangs are an essential part of growing up and becoming a law abiding citizen, but you wouldn't know it from the media". says the Guardian.
"Gangs", they say, "get a bad press. The overused noun is now synonymous with the evils of youth culture and its incumbent violence, drugs, guns and sexual misconduct. There is a lot of rooftop shouting and table banging about the breakdown of teenage society: poor education, dysfunctional families, no respect for the older generations. 'Wasn't like that when I was young.' This dim view is, at best, misguided. At worst, clouded in denial and cushioned in the fiction of the non-existent "good old days". Societies throughout history have each had their share of unlawful, out-of-control youth".
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Think they're making it up?
http://sites.google.com/site/londonstreetgangs/borough-pages/haring...
though not about young ones per se.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Watched a doc about the Hitler Youth today. Now THAT was an Ubergang :-)
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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What was?
BTW, don't forget your two little dots .. or add an E after the vowel that should have them.. wie hier.. Uebergang
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Baden-Powell also thought other things, we now consider not good, to be acceptable:
This on him @ Famous British Paedophiles:
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