Blog entry # 3: Teen suicide/ different cultures

In the article “Teenage wasteland” by Donna Gaines talks about the youth culture and how it relates to the teen suicide. Gaines states “One teenager commits suicide it is a personal tragedy, but when groups of teenagers form a suicide pact and successfully carry it out; suicide becomes a matter of public concern” in making this comment, Gaines urges us to think that indeed teen suicide has become an important problem that has to be solve. This story took place in Bergenfield New Jersey in March 11; where 4 teenagers commit suicide. This was as the book “experience sociology” states about communicating culture a symbolic tragic. The book also explores the central role of culture in social life and who we are as human-beings. According to the statistics it is one of the principal deaths in ages 15- 24 among Americans such as it states the book of “connect core concepts in health” which is in the graph bellow. I believe that those that commit or attend suicide are in a deeply depression, depression to not be accepted, and depression to be judged. Many teens are misjudged according to the society to being seeing with the “wrong people”, others are judged because of the cloths that they use, or from what culture they come from. According to the article, wasteland was the place where many of those teenagers didn't have a good life went to. In Gaines’s view “Teenage suicide won't go away until kids' bad lives do. Until there are other ways of moving out of bad lives, suicide will remain attractive.” In other words until our society is not better for everyone better things will not happen.