The Subculture of the Sheltered

At SHS, students don't need to worry about much. We don't have to worry about drive-bys on the way to or from school and we definitely don't need to worry about violence breaking out in our school. Could this be how our our surroundings shape us? Most students at SHS can say they have never witnessed a murder or violence broken out over the territory of gangs. Maybe this is because of the way we live and our surroundings. Most in the suburbs are so sheltered that hearing of murders in their own state among teens is just enough to give them a heart attack at such an early age. For others, its normal. As a teen who grew up in the suburbs, we can not even begin to imagine how different life would be for us if we lived in one of those "bad neighborhoods" that have become infamous due to their violence and crime. We can not begin to fathom how we would feel if we had been put in that same situation. To others who are accostumed to these actions, they feel as if it was just another day. At the end of the day, we are all just people who's thoughts and actions have been shaped by our community.