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It’s surprising when politicians/newspaper columnists, etc, say that the parents (of kids in gangs) need to take responsibility for their offspring’s actions; when those parents (and probably grandparents) are usually as bad or worse. The stabbers are the products of three or four generations of thugs. They don't have morals or a conscience because there is nobody to instil those things in them. I think these things need to be taught in schools subtly, somehow, at a very young age; emotional intelligence at that age is as important as intelligence.
And of course there's the influence of gangster rap; it's hard to argue that it's not an influence when you see those YouTube videos of London or Liverpool gangs posing with guns to a hiphop soundtrack and talking like idiots.
As for the whole 'respect' thing; I think what they mean is they want people to fear them, to acknowledge how hard they are. It's nothing to do with respect (as in the real meaning of the word) just reputation, just more macho bullshit.
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