Analysis Of Shuttling Between Nations, Latino Gangs Confound The Law

The article “Shuttling Between Nations, Latino Gangs Confound the Law”, written by Ginger Thompson, was very informational to me. The counterculture in the article is gang members. Gang members are the counterculture because they are not the most powerful, influential, or widespread on the earth. Gang members are not respected and often times treated terrible. Gang members are not listened to and are supposed to obey the laws of the dominant culture. In some cases gang members might be the dominant culture, in specific situations, because the city could be smaller or the gang could just recruit everyone. The dominant culture in this article is authorities, police, and government leaders. They are the dominant group because they have all the power they want, with some restrictions, and are very influential on the rest of the people in the world. A taboo of the counterculture that the …show more content…
The have some illegal and unnecessary guns. They wear saggy pants and muscle shirts. A nonmaterial item is how they talk to each other. In the gangs they all have different nicknames and they call each other “homies”. In the dominant culture material items are the military supplies they use, their guns, and the jails they pack people into. Some nonmaterial items are the way they talk to each other, their relationship with other countries, and their views on gangs.
Nation’s culture can influence other nations by the distribution of people. When people relocate to a different country the culture that they previously came from follows them to the new location. It can also influence by the disciplinary actions taken when someone breaks the rules and how a country enforces rules. How a country punishes or does not punish an individual will be analyzed by other countries to see if they agree or do not agree. If something is okay in one country and not okay in another there will be conflict over the