Pop Culture Research Paper
Popular Culture and Sports in American Society
Introduction
Communities in many parts of the world proudly associated themselves with cultural, traditional and social practices that were founded by pioneers, which was an effort to establish identity and can be identified from the rest of the communities. Popular culture, also referred to as pop culture, is one of these traditions that managed to survived the test of times to influence the various aspects of life of the twenty first-generation generation (Ashby 11). Pop culture refers to the general ideas, attitudes, images, perspectives, and any other phenomena that form the foundation of a certain culture, especially culture of the West, of the early twentieth century to the emerging …show more content…
When people start gambling, they make some money, which leads to the need to get more money and become addicted in the process because they want to gamble on high money (Borghesi 63). People who take part in gambling use money carelessly, leading themselves into lots of debts because they often borrow money from friends and relatives, to support their gambling needs. Gambling also provides gangs with an opportunity to venture into money laundering because the risk of being caught is minimal (63). The establishment of the law to fight money laundering in sports has seen a number of Mafia gangs being arrested in the recent past, due to involvement in both gambling and money laundering. It gives the gangs place to laundering them money without risk. Research has shown that the majority of the people involved in gambling do it in relation to sports, and a significant increase in the number of lifestyle diseases among those taking part in the vice has been seen (67). The government losses a lot of revenue due to this practice and it is the community that suffers because of the negative effects on the
Introduction
Communities in many parts of the world proudly associated themselves with cultural, traditional and social practices that were founded by pioneers, which was an effort to establish identity and can be identified from the rest of the communities. Popular culture, also referred to as pop culture, is one of these traditions that managed to survived the test of times to influence the various aspects of life of the twenty first-generation generation (Ashby 11). Pop culture refers to the general ideas, attitudes, images, perspectives, and any other phenomena that form the foundation of a certain culture, especially culture of the West, of the early twentieth century to the emerging …show more content…
When people start gambling, they make some money, which leads to the need to get more money and become addicted in the process because they want to gamble on high money (Borghesi 63). People who take part in gambling use money carelessly, leading themselves into lots of debts because they often borrow money from friends and relatives, to support their gambling needs. Gambling also provides gangs with an opportunity to venture into money laundering because the risk of being caught is minimal (63). The establishment of the law to fight money laundering in sports has seen a number of Mafia gangs being arrested in the recent past, due to involvement in both gambling and money laundering. It gives the gangs place to laundering them money without risk. Research has shown that the majority of the people involved in gambling do it in relation to sports, and a significant increase in the number of lifestyle diseases among those taking part in the vice has been seen (67). The government losses a lot of revenue due to this practice and it is the community that suffers because of the negative effects on the