Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other Mitchell Johnson, the one his friends saw, was a gang-loving, emotional kid who once threatened to shoot himself over the breakup of a summer romance and was truly troubled by his parents' divorce. "Since they split, he's gone downhill," said Mike Niemeyer, Mitchell's 17-year-old second cousin. "He'd look for trouble. He'd get into fights. If little kids pissed him off, he'd try to beat them up. He was easily pissed...
...understand the purpose of this discussion," said one participant, who asked to remain anonymous. "In fact, I'm kind of offended that hip-hop culture was associated with gang culture...
Referring to personal experience, another participant who requested that his name not be used described his own run-ins with street gangs in New York City, explaining that while he "never saw the ugly stuff," he knew of gang members luring his peers into their networks through "a lot of money, free drugs and gifts, like beepers...
...opposite end of the spectrum, Kelly Yamanouchi '00, who is a Crimson editor, professed that she did not know of any Harvard students who had contact with gang culture and proposed that "a lot of Asian people" imitate inner city fashions because they "want to pretend they are poor...
Nevertheless, there was broad agreement among participants that the proliferation of inner city styles, whether hip-hop or gang, among Asian-Americans was related to the commodification of both cultural traditions by corporate America. As one of the participants who asked not to be named said, "it's all about the corporation...