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Nothing else to do. Good question. I have often wondered that myself. I think that in big cities, kids can usually find a "niche". There's goths, and stoners, and Christians, and gays and lesbians, different cultures and races, etc, etc in schools and malls and on the streets. You can dress and look and about however you want and no one really gets that worked up about it. But in little towns, there is less acceptance of anyone who is different and more pressure to conform. Maybe that contributes to the mental problems of young people. Acceptance is of such high importance to them.
Nothing else to do. Good question. I have often wondered that myself. I think that in big cities, kids can usually find a "niche". There's goths, and stoners, and Christians, and gays and lesbians, different cultures and races, etc, etc in schools and malls and on the streets. You can dress and look and about however you want and no one really gets that worked up about it. But in little towns, there is less acceptance of anyone who is different and more pressure to conform. Maybe that contributes to the mental problems of young people. Acceptance is of such high importance to them.
Aurora, CO is NOT a "small town". It is a suburban city of 325,000 people, bigger than Pittsburgh. So much for that theory. Plus, James Holmes was a student at the CU Health Science Center where there are plenty of non-conformists.
LOL Some of you don't know what a small town or County is.
Try 1,500 people...............TOTAL
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