Why Are Street Gangs in 80s Movies and Video Games Portrayed As Punk Rockers?

Why are street gangs in 80s movies and video games portrayed as punk rockers?

probably because it looks much cooler than a bunch of creepy thugs

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What's the oldest gang in Los Angeles?

The History Channel does programing on gangs..check out their web site

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Gang Cultures: Why is there so much talk about black gangs since we did not create that culture?

Plain and simple in this society everyone has a role that serves the purpose for the power structure. The role black people have served has changed throughout the years. Now days the role of black people is to represent the worse of this society or to be the hopeless wretch saved by good hearted white people. When we study history and pay close attention the first pimps of this nation did not wear rudy red gators with a purple crushed velvet three piece suit. The wore knickers and white stockings and a French ruffled shirt and a colonial hat. My point is the first criminals of this nation were not black. The first low lives of this nation were not black either. Yet when the word gangster or thug or hoodlum is mentioned imaged of a young black man with dreads and gold teeth with his pants hanging half way down his butt wearing colored bandannas comes to mind. The same applies with welfare. When we think of a welfare queen we see a black woman with brightly colored weave or dyed hair, with a name that is impossible to pronounce with 4 children with 4 different fathers exuding attitude. Yet no one in the history of America got a fatter welfare check than the banking and financial institutions and the US automakers. Bottom line is those who control information have declared war on the black image and make the standard of who and what we are the absolute worse aspects of our culture. You can see in these questions being asked. "Why are black people so prone to violence? Why can not black people get off welfare? Why are black people so loud and ghetto? Blah..Blah..Blah.." These are troll questions but with the amount of questions like this it's obvious people think these things about black people. So why the negative imagery of black people? Because it makes money and gains people power. Look at the resent Republican primary. Newt Gingrich basically won South Carolina but throwing around words like welfare and saying blacks would do better if they went to work instead of waiting on a check. The southern white bigot crowd ate that up. Again forget the fact that the richest white owned or majority white invested corporations in America just took 787 billion dollars of the American tax payers money to get themselves out of trouble because of their poor choices. If that's not welfare then I do not know what is. As far as gangs go the gang culture is a relatively small sub culture within black culture in America but it get's more attention. There is a larger church culture in black culture than gang culture. There a larger Panhellenic culture in black culture than gang culture yet these do not get the spot light because the do not invoke fear. People will pay or do anything not to be afraid. So images of black men roaming the streets in doo-rags and bandannas churns out money for the white elite. Meanwhile these brothers are not even privy to the copyrights of their image to make some on the money the white elites are making. To quote Chuck D from P.E. "Now that's gangsta!"

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Is this person an ex gang member?

Those are not gang tatttoos

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Why does it seem Asians are smarter, calmer and less violent than whites and blacks?

They are raised with more respect and more family orientation, but there are gangs of asains in London causing rife so they are not all good

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OMG are Sudanese 'Gangs' taking over Australia?

I agree with Captn Jack

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Blacks and hispanics bring wonderful diversity to our nation, particulary in the form of gangs that kill and?

Right On CupidsTarget, education is the key, too bad it cant work in every case. And by the way black and Hispanic gangs still have nothing on my Irish ancestors when it comes to violence and inhumanity, but that in no way implies that all Irish or for that matter Italians are or were gangsters. Now the worst gangs that Ive ever heard of were the Kurgans, ancestors of the Aryans-Kelts and many other culture groups. Of course they included people of African and Asiatic gene lines, though they were mostly light skinned. They especially enjoyed feeding (innocent) babies to dogs.