Teenage Takeover: Crime or Culture? | Cultural Development Podcast Episode 7

In this episode of the Cultural Development Podcast, Rome the Rula and Nick “The Social Introvert” have an honest conversation about today’s youth, teenage violence, social media, broken family structures, and the systems that helped shape the culture we see today.

Are teenagers simply committing crimes, or are they products of a trickle-down effect that started generations ago?

We discuss how parents were shaped by government systems, family separation, mass incarceration, and the school-to-prison pipeline—and how those experiences continue to affect their children today. We also examine how social media amplifies violence, rewards negative attention, and pushes young people to do everything “for the gram.”

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