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What does attract youth to gangs?

What does attract youth to gangs? As I have researched there are many
different answers and reasons why youths get attracted to ‘gang life’.
When I was on www.youtube.com I come across a video talking and videoing
youths from gang central South Auckland New Zealand where there are a lot
of youths involved in gangs. Youth gangs are boys and girls aged from
12-18 where they make a crew/gang and end up in trouble doing small
crimes.

What does youth gangs seems so cool to youth? on the video I watched it
shows that these boys and girls like being in a youth gang or being in the
life style as one and it partly because of  the American gangster
lifestyles we see on TV, internet and movies with that comes the rap hip
hop attitude that these boys and girls try so hard to be like the reason
why I say this is because there talking to a boy about his life on the
streets an what he gets up to with the youth gangs and they bring up about
the American gangsters an he say “ we ant trying to be like them they
trying to be like us” I think its like a pride thing that is important to
them to keep there reputation up. Most youth gangs are made up of young
Maori and pacific and has been on the rise since 2006 and is getting worse
on www.ehow.com it tells me this.

Anther attraction is they feel like they are being protected mabby growing
up with no friends or there family doesn’t care about them they go and
find boys like them and join a youth gang to make them feel like there
being looked after you could call it www.msd.govt.nz. DRUGS, SEX AND
ACHOLE for youth these 3 things are very big factor in in our life’s
growing up and in youth gangs there is a lot of peer pressure around you
when your with people that have drugs or cajole I think that would be a
big part of why youths join gangs as teenagers even myself here about how
good it can be. Most youth gangs are found in South Auckland and there has
been near killing with the youth gangs at war www.startimes.co.nz

Racisms is defiantly a big reason why youth join gangs as I’ve read in
most of my research they say its mostly Maori an Pacifica youths that are
apart of these youth gangs an yes that is true but they are given this
like name tag as youths who are bad an they don’t think there worth it so
they join gangs. They could be a victim of racisms an’s why they join
because there someone there that will protect them when there only getting
into more trouble. Youth gangs are  getting worse as people are starting
to get seriously injured in fights as it is over just there ‘territory’ as
a boy said from the youth gang in Invercargill the ‘NSD’ (niggers down
south) www.stuff.co.nz . Most of these boys would have potential if it’s
in sport music or academically but they are given no chance as they are
labelled as bad people and don’t know how to get out of it as they are
just kids.