Good reasoning, childhood is the time when most of our traits are molded and in an environment that is filled with violence it will be hard to brake that mold. Raising kids is a real eye opener as you get to see first hand how personalities are made or naturally occur. Oh lord the entertainment industry, I can admit that it highly influenced me as a teen so when people say it doesn't, they really don't know what they are talking about. And the more desperate of situation one is in, makes the mind more impressionable.

It is definitely the biggest problem
I see here in Japan, people don’t express how they feel and then you see headlines like the one in my post or hear that the
trains have stopped because someone has committed suicide. Jumping in front of a train takes a different level of bravery mixed with depression and can also be seen as spiteful as the family has to pay for the expenses.

As they say in Jamaica “Jamaica is not a real place”. So many social issues with roots stemming back to slavery, mixed with the poverty, politics, ignorance, classism and then the media influence has created something that will take generations to fix. So much beauty indeed and many are waking up to that fact as the Chinese and Indians take advantage. But better days will come.