[Michael W.]

They follow these rap stars from a different culture because they are not encouraged to find anything positive in their own. It is socially acceptable for young black males to express anger, etc., because it is assumed that their experience of poverty, racism, and all the rest legitimizes their emotions, but young white males are assumed to have nothing to complain about, so if they ‘go off’, they are odd-balls, psychos, or worse. They can’t be proud of their own race and culture, because middle-class, white suburbia is assumed to be the cockpit of all those social pathologies that the rappers are fighting against in the first place, so how better to ‘get back’ at their parents than to adopt the mannerisms and tastes of the very people whom they are told in schools, movies, and the culture at large that their parents have oppressed.

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Name : Michael W., Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 45, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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