Role of cultures in human killing
The other day the three of us were travelling by driving to Dallas and then to fly to Honolulu. After 40 years I am visiting where I once worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
We made a stop at Bass Pro Shop where I witnessed the American culture of practicing gun shooting on unreal animals. Immediately, I remembered the recent killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, allegedly by an adult male. Whatever the reasons, killing is not or shouldn’t be a solution.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, culture is defined as the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
Interestingly, as opposed to rich cultures, poor cultures prepare people in a different way. You can see this in my home country of Bangladesh. There guns are not much used, rather it is by beating to death, and it’s a long cultural tradition.
There are “honor killings” common in the Arab world. Even mass killings were often popular under communist regimes.
Should we all not revisit our cultural tradition and reform accordingly?
Jiben Roy
Columbus
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