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The Prisoner’s Dilemma

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I agree with the statement that many stereotypes for minorities have changed over time, though some have stayed the same. I am part of the African American demographic and if you had asked people in the past how they would have described us they would have used mainly derogatory terms such as lazy, selfish, hostile and deceptive. This is because the only time that an African American was on the television it would have been as a suspect for some crime or something negative. Today, because so many African Americans are athletes and musicians people, will associate them with being athletic, artistic, musical and materialistic. These new roles in society are often heroes to many young people.

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I believe that the sentences that display acts of physical violence most indicate aggression. The sentences that included “killing for sport” I found to be highly aggressive, this is because I do not believe the violence was necessary. Another type of sentence that I found aggressive was “self-injury” because it is very violent to cause injury to yourself. The sentences that included “harm to nonliving things” I did not personally find aggressive. This could be because we know nonliving things cannot feel therefore I do not feel for it nor do I believe you can be aggressive toward it. Another type of sentence that I did not find aggressive was “no physical damage”, this is because there was no violence, therefore, there was not a lot of aggression.

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The above screenshot is what stuck out most to me from the assigned video “Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?”. According to the video statistics like these are the results of the FBI which tallies reported crime and the Justice Department that surveys people asking them if they were a victim. The video stated that the rate of crime report by the Justice Department is down two percent for violent crime and twenty-five percent crime overall. The violent crime rate that is reported to the FBI is increased by eighty-two percent from 1973 to 1992. This does not mean that crime is occurring more often but that more people are reporting it than before. Sadly the media does not express this to the public and make it appear that crime is simply occurring more. This is still happening in today’s media and it makes people think that we are living in an extremely violent and dangerous world when in reality we are living in a world where people feel safer to report a crime they are a victim of.