Social and developmental psychology

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A research paper using information from ted talk – looking at social psychology and developmental psychology 00:04 My journey away from violent extremism began 22 years ago, when I denounced racism and left the American white supremacist skinhead movement that I had helped build. 00:16 (Cheers and applause) 00:22 I was just 22 years old at the time, but I had already spent eight years, from the time I was 14 years old, as one of the earliest and youngest members and an eventual leader within America’s most violent hate movement. 00:36 But I wasn’t born into hate; in fact, it was quite the opposite. I had a relatively normal childhood. My parents are Italian immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1960s and settled on the South Side of Chicago, where they eventually met, and opened a small beauty shop. Right after I was born, things got a little bit more difficult. They struggled to survive with raising a young family and a new business, often working seven days a week, 14 hours a day, taking on second and third jobs just to earn a meager living. And quality time with my parents was pretty nonexistent. Even though I knew they loved me very much, growing up, I felt abandoned. I was lonely, and I started to withdraw, and then I started to resent my parents and become very angry. And as I was growing up, through my teenage years, I started to act out to try and get attention from my parents. 01:44 And one day, when I was 14, I was standing in an alley, and I was smoking a joint, and a man who was twice my age, with a shaved head and tall black boots, came up to me, and he snatched the joint from my lips. Then he put his hand on my shoulder and he looked me in the eyes, and he said, “That’s what the communists and the Jews want you to do to keep you docile.” I was 14 years old, I’d been trading baseball cards and watching “Happy Days” — I didn’t really know what a Jew was. 02:20 (Laughter) 02:22 It’s true. And the only communist that I knew was the bad Russian guy in my favorite Rocky movie. 02:29 (Laughter) 02:32 And since I’m here baring my soul with you, I can reveal that I did not even know what the word “docile” meant.