Bowling For Columbine Film Analysis

In this trimester, I have studied Paradigm II at Mahidol University International College, which is a core course for the social science division. This course learns about the major paradigms in social sciences during the twentieth century. In the past few months, a lecturer, Eugene Jones, opened a documentary film named Bowling for Columbine. In this film, a filmmaker, Michael Moore, try to find the reason of butchery in the United States. After I watched this film, I had learned that there are numerous reasons why Americans are so violent.

The first reason that is mentioned in the movie is that America has violent history. Many people blame history to be the prior reason that makes Americans to be more violent than other people. However, one of the wealthiest nations, Germany, has a bloody history as well. It once ruled under the control of Nazi party, which Adolf Hitler was a leader. Hitler did various terrible things such as genocide. Nevertheless, nowadays Germany is not known as a violent country, thus I had thought that perhaps American society becoming violent is not caused by violent historical events alone. Furthermore, if violent history is the genuine reason, countries such as Vietnam and Japan may
Only one factor cannot cause the whole society to become like this. However, the main factor that causes America to be such violent society might be the diversity of ethnic groups. The United States is a huge country and consists of many nationalities, which each ethnic group has different practice and belief. When these norms merge together, there is a high possibility that each norm might conflict with one another. As a consequence, people who are not fit in the society will have less social bonds, and thus these people will have more chances to violate norms such as committing a