Why do the kids today want to look like gangsters.?
81960
May be they want to have a lot of attention. When someone looks at you fearfully and afraid of you, you have the 'BOSS' feeling and you feel having a greater stature in the public
413461
Gangs have been in existence for as long as there have been inhabitants of this world. The word thug dates back to India in the year 1200 AD and it refers to a gang of criminals (Thugz) that roamed the country pillaging towns in their course. These Thugz had their own symbols, hand signs, rituals and slang. In the United States, we grew up with tales of our own form of thugs like pirates and gangsters, therefore, gangs, undoubtedly, are not a new concept. \n\nSo...no...I don't believe that COlors "created" more gangs. I think circumstances like socio-economic issues and lack of adult guidance helps to create gangs. \n\nDuvall? He's cool. He should go to sleep every night with a clear conscious.
220453
I am a child development major at a university and we have studied this question on and off for the past four years of my schooling. This is what i have come up with....\n\nChildren/ Adolescents hold looks to a higher standard then many other qualities in a relationships.  If a child has a chance to hang out with someone who has a gucci purse or someone who has a purse from the sale rack at target that person will hang out with someone who has the gucci.  It brings them to the higher class group.  By having to wear uniforms the students can't base their first impressions of someone on what they are wearing.  They can actually base it on that persons personality.  \n\nThe academic problems is connected to this because if the students are all wearing uniforms students self esteem raises because they dont have to worry about what to wear to school that morning.  If they aren't wearing uniforms and a person is seen as a loner or outcast because of what they are wearing is more likely to throw school away as well.
714852
money, money, money, money, money. It's all driven by money. The gangster image is a front. They may have been punks (sorry, gangster) before they started rapping, but they certainly need the image to be successful.
456845
no because i think kids should be able to express themselves through the way they dress
104379
YOU GOT US ALL WONDERING, NOWADAYS, kids are refusing to learn and learning in not to work because there is other ways of getting money, from stealing to selling drugs. This had me wondering, I personally know some kids just finished graduating from university schools and they CAN NOT MAKE SIMPLY CHANGE AS AN CASHIER, UNLESS THEY HAVE A COMPUTER OR AN CACULATOR TODO THAT FOR THEM! Well im 33 year old and have 2 kids in school and now its mandatory for them to have calculators. When I was in there grades WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ONE, the only thing we were allowed to use  was a piece of paper or our heads to calculate a answer. Now i see this "graduate" university kids acting like this. I KNOW ITS GOING TO BE A VERY SCARY FUTURE. Those kids someday might be our president of our country, or our future doctors.  Tell you the truth I rather off being dead than alive. Even highschool kids are getting to be very scary. If they don't have there names written down on a piece of paper, Im pretty sure they will forget in how to spell it. The best way to resolve this us parents must Demand for higher school achievements or standards. and not let those standards get any lower, then they are set now! and start demanding kids todo more educational things other than letting them play a PS2 system for hours on ends so they can master the game, and it doesn't stops there, have you heard the music they listen, especially to rap, in how they are killing people and being in gangs or doing drugs or talking about sex. these rappers now have have to change there lyrics to get kids into staying in school and promote something to better our kids SO WE CAN ALL HAVE A BETTER FUTURE. IF WE CAN PULL THIS OFF our future will be better and will be more secured than it sits as now.
1087928
Well i dont hate anyone, but here in new zealand we have kids acting like american gangstas. In some ways its just plain funny and you know they grow out of it. I think its a shame that many 'gangsters' or wannabes have to be so negative.
558239
We really do live in an age of the Cult of Celebrity all over the world.  We HAVE to have the right clothes, HAVE to have the right places to hang out.  Girls grow up thinking that they have to look like this celebrity or that one, nevermind their own beauty.  So much plastic surgery is done now a days so that we can have the perfect breasts and the perfect nose because thats what we see on the cover of vogue and rollingstone. \nIf they have brains and some talent they better have the looks to go with it because they dont count for anything without the looks.  Thats what society has told them this day in age.  And I think its sad.
1177295
I think that it has to do a lot with wanting to be liked and respected. Gangstas are in style now so people will try to be gangstas, but some try to be emo, or punk or whatever they think they will be accepted as.
97622
Pretty simple - Because it will get them out of trouble... If not a "get out of trouble" lie, its because they want to look cooler than they are..
1079528
LMAO!!!! I hear you! I guess they want to feel sexy and desired. Too bad is just makes people and children uncomfortable.
819614
eating disorders, kids want to look like celebs, and often think theyre overweight (even tho theyre not) just b/c they dont look like them.
414487
It is simply the culture values of kids these days. Adult believe it is all about them and not those around. Kinda say would you not say.
239306
cause they think it makes them look cute and smaart
477656
Because high school guy are going through puberty and want to fulfill their fantasies. And they wanna look cool in front of their friends so they don't want someone unattractive to show to their friends.
676291
They do it because the were not taught respect by their parents. The kids now a days are totally out of control!
94710
I think the stop snitchen shirts are pretty stupid. Everybody wants to try to be gangsta like the rappers that they idolize. I know I want to be just like some alcoholic, drug addict, womanizing idiots. Sounds like fun. Not.