American Violence In South Culture Analysis

Jim Morrison once said, “Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.” Violence against others is always a bad thing to do, but people who do violence have something to do that's inside their brain. Humans doing violent acts have something to do with genetics, their job, or their childhood. With genetics, some humans can get a warrior gene and it can affect how aggressive they are if they were raised poorly, meaning they were mistreated or the environment they live in is bad. Humans being violent is also caused by how people are nurtured with culture. In the south, people are more aggressive and it’s due because of being offended. Violence originates from nature and it’s also nurtured because of the atmosphere we are in and how we were raised in that atmosphere
Violence is learned
In the south, southerners are taught the ‘Culture of Honor,’ which is a culture in the south where people avoid offending others to keep their reputation. How does a person react after being offended? A person can likely react by being violent. In the south, people are more angry not just on the outside, but on the inside. In Whet Moser’s article, “American Violence and Southern Culture,” Moser states, “Southerners were prone to violence, and in particular violence stemming from a ‘Culture of Honor’ endemic to the region”(Moser 141). In 1996, four psychologists from midwestern Universities designed an experiment and the results were that southerners were possessing the culture of honor when they were not offended. However, when they were insulted, the picture changed and they were found to be angry. Moser also states, “Southerners were not only more angry on the outside, they were more angry on the inside, down to their neurochemistry”(142). Southerners were found to be violent when they were offended and they are more likely to take