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I agree with genuinegirly that there are other pockets of "cultures of failure" in the US, but I also think that the largest and most pervasive is what's going in urban Black American right now. "Stop snitching" is more of a symptom than a cause, but I think that it all goes back to the glorification of the gangster that started in the 80's. You could probably make an arguement that it's all a perversion of what the Black Panthers were trying to do in the 70's, but that's another discussion.
One of my roommates in college grew up in downtown Detroit and refused to go back during breaks. His mom would take a bus to her sister's house in Cincinnati to see him at Christmas, etc. This was in the early 90's, but he described it as being something that he would never go back to, even to help. That ended up being a crock since he is now some sort of higher-up for Magic Johnson's enterprises.
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