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Counter Cultures and Culture Wars

5 important questions on Counter Cultures and Culture Wars

Give a couple example of dissatisfaction with cultural norms and values that they seeks to change.

Women’s Suﬀrage, Civil Rights: Rosa Parks (Montgomery Bus Boycott), Civil Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and Gay Rights: Harvey Milk

What means culture jamming?

Many culture jams are intended to expose apparently questionable political assumptions behind commercial culture. Common tactics include re-figuring logos, fashion statements

How to Identify a Terrorist?

We don't:

normal people can be terrorists, that we ourselves are capable of terrorist acts under some circumstances.

' A number of large scale empirical studies found no relationship between poverty and terrorism. Most terrorists are educated, employed, middle or upper middle class citizens' Claude Berrebi

Deﬁne Terrorism’s Core Element

Force---> Fear-->Change

The three critical elements in the preparation are:

-boosting motivation

- group pressure (e.g. mutual commitment)

- creating a point of no return (public personal commitment) by videotaping the candidate declaring that he is going to do it, and having him write last letters to family and friends..”