Week 5:
Bryan Ngo
ASA 002
A01
Unfortunate as it is, mass killings have become a part of
our Western society’s characteristics and it has been for many, many decades.
According to Hamamoto in “Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence”,
the only difference between mass killings then and now are the motives behind
the killers. These motives, again according to Hamamoto, shifted form purely
economical motives to motives filled with hate and revenge on a certain group
of people. It’s still a very strange idea to me; the idea that someone can, and
will, single out a certain type of person based on factors such as race or
physical appearance and generalize hate to all individuals of that group. In
the many examples of mass killers provided by Hamamoto, the victims always fell
under some sort of categorization based on the previously mentioned factors.
It’s puzzling as to why those groups
are singled out, but we do know that most of the mass killers had some sort of
background with armed forces. Many of these targeted groups are, unfortunately,
individuals with some Asian background (this is true for a handful of the mass
killers after wars against opposing Asian forces). Unfortunate as it is, there
reason’s to believe that these mass killings on race are a blowback of
diversity in Western culture. It’s an understandably strange feeling for
military personnel to fight an enemy over seas, only to come home and find the
same type of person as neighbors in their homeland.
Question:
As stated in my last sentence, I do agree that it’s strange
for military personnel to fight enemies from some culture, only to come back to
find the same type of people as their neighbors. So what steps can/should be taken
to mitigate this strange feeling that comes from the transition of military
life to civilian life?
References:
Glover, L. (2017, August
07). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Statistics for Veterans. Retrieved
October 21, 2017, from https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/health/ptsd-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-statistics-veterans/
Hamamoto, D. Y.
(n.d.). Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence . Retrieved October 21,
2017.
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