American History

According to Daley, violence is so widespread in the United States fundamentally because the American society was built on diversity and discord. She argues that the country was settled in an impromptu manner by dissimilar groups of people and the arrival of organized crime by way of the Sicilians into such a loosely organized country in which citizens had the constitutional right to bear arms, is the central reason for the countrys current problems. I do not think this analysis is convincing for first reasons. For she dismisses out of hand the validity of the impact of Americas capitalist economy and political ideology on crime. Second, that the UK was settled in a less ad hoc manner than America has not been shown and also the fact that Britain is stable and conservative does not mean it could never suffer from widespread violence. Third, the fact that she lays the violence entirely at the feet of immigrants also seems flawed.
Daleys argument provide insight into the rape of the Central Park jogger only in the scenario that Meilli has actually been raped by the five men that confessed. However, in the real situation as it was revealed, the crime had not been committed by someone of the mindlessly violent underclass, and indeed the rapist had not gone about committing the crime mindlessly and was not part of the underclass to which I think Daley refers.
I think the bombing of the London subway system in 2005 by four Muslim youths, three of whom were born in England of Pakistani descent, undermines Daleys conclusion that Britains stability and conservativeness could not lead to senseless violence is undermined. On the other hand, her seeming assertion that immigrants are the cause of violence could be supported by this incident. The youths were born in the UK but not of UK parentage, supporting (oblique) Daleys argument that immigrants with different motivations and lifestyles are causing problems in the society.
According to Wildmon, the major problems facing American society are large increases in the crime rate, the increasing abundance of pornography material, more music with explicit sexual lyrics, and more broken homes, all stemming from a deterioration of morals.
According to Wildmon, material with Christian characters, Christian values, and Christian culture should be shown in television more, while less programs espousing negative values, such as adultery, should be shown. He proposes that the Coalition for better television should make the decisions regarding what should be shown on television. According to Giamatti, what a pluralism of peoples, political beliefs, values, forms of merit and systems of religion should be shown on television. He argues that decisions regarding what should be shown on television should be left to everyone, that is, these decisions should not be made by one set of people. Giamatti argues that the moral majority wants to make these decisions on behalf of everyone without discussion and expect no dissent. He criticizes this and argues that no one set of people should make those decisions at the risk of threatening pluralistic values and everyones freedom.
According to Wildmon, television has a very important the to play in the development of morality in the United States. He directly links the deterioration of morals he has witnessed in the media over the last previous twenty-five years to negative societal outcomes such as increasing crime and divorce rates. In line with this, he sees television as one of the greatest tools of public education, and it can either be used to erode the moral fabric of the society or rebuild it. He claims that at the moment, television is being used to great effect to erode the moral fabric of the society because of its messages and the marked absence of Christianity on television. But he thinks that putting Christian characters, Christian values, and Christian culture back on television can help to stem the tide and rebuild the societys moral fabric if it is done soon enough.Voices from Abroad and American Voices