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Parts
~ Introduction
~ Findings
~ Conclusion
~ Bibliography
~ Appendix
In this paper we are going deeper into the roots of the culture of fear. ... Why are violence and the carrying of guns so apparent in the United States while not in other countries (that share similar aspects)?
But our main objective is to research what came first: fear or the guns. ... When we analyse the United States according to the theory of Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions; it is found that the U.S has Individualism as their highest dimension. ...
But what is the result of this high ranking of individualism in the U.S. ...
So why, as can be seen in the appendix , is fear more apparent and are more guns carried in the U.S than in any of the other countries that have individualism as their highest cultural dimension? ... In the United States, a set of specific historical circumstances led to the worlds first race-based slave system. ... For example, in the early 20th century, U.S. ... Because this group started to rebel fear grew in the minds of the white oppressors. This fear resulted in profound national changes.
Before the Civil War ended, State "Slave Codes" prohibited slaves from owning guns. After President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was adopted and the Civil War ended in 1865, States persisted in prohibiting blacks, now freemen, from owning guns under laws renamed "Black Codes." They did so on the basis that blacks were not citizens, and thus did not have the same rights, including the right to keep and bear arms protected in the Second Amendment to the U.
Approximate Word count = 1406
Approximate Pages = 5.6
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