Violent Kids?

What is on your mind when you first look at the picture above? A kid playing video games happily? Well, for me, he looks kinda scary :S

I'm gonna talk about Cultivation Theory today. Basically, it means people being cultivated or influenced when they watch certain TV shows or even play certain video games that contain characteristics in them. They may apply them to their real life, treating them as reality. Normally, this happens only to the heavy TV viewers and people (especially kids which are still immature) who like to play video games that contain violence. They may imitate the actions from the shows or games they have played. Seems creepy huh?

Grand Theft Auto, a violent video game which has various types of versions. This reminds me of my cousin brother. I remember when he was at the age of 10, he played this game everyday and addicted to it, crazy enough. I can honestly tell that this game really taught him to become violent. Everytime when we met, his hand would surely be holding either a toy gun or a toy knife and he would start running here and there, pretending that he was trying to kill people. =.=

Other than that, kids usually like to watch violent cartoon shows and this applied to my cousin brothers who watched most of the time. When my cousin brother was playing with his younger brother, after a couple of minutes, they would be fighting with each other, competing whose "power" would be stronger. At that time, I would for sure hearing them shouting all sorts of sounds like *POWER*BING*BANG*BUSH*RAAAWWRR*. This clearly proved that they actually learned and influenced by the TV shows that they had watched. 

And after fighting, my younger cousin brother would usually be the one who cried because he lost.

The video below can prove that video games may cultivate kids and teens to be violent.