Spanish television also showed more footage of people falling from buildings on 9-11 and one of the American Spanish networks had a tabloid program that showed a guy murdering a woman (with a gun to the back of the head) while she visited someone's grave and spoke with the camera crew.
Mexico celebrates the dead. There are magazines devoted to car crashes.
I can confirm this statement, based on my experience...
The hispanic culture is obsessed with death and the witnessing of that occurance, whether by accident or deliberate...
Is that a negative, I am not so sure...I believe it is based more on an affirmation of life, then the ending of life...At least that is what I believe the root fascination is with the end of life...
Now, that being said, I do believe that the fascination is more along the lines of a pop culture fascination, that the westernized (American) media shuns as humanly possible images of actual moments of death or graphic depictions of death...
So nowadays it is not uncommon to see videos, and other depictions of death and mayhem in the hispanic community...
One example...
Go to a Flea Market in any hispanic community and watch for the video booths that show and sell videos of Mexican rodeos and other events...You'll soon see what I am talking about...
All I am saying is that the sensationalizing of death in the hispanic community IS prevalent, and not subject to much discretion or parental supervision...
Why this boy did this can be speculated on from here to next Christmas...I don't believe his, or his families immigration status is an issue...
This is only a headline grabbing story, we have at least three total events similar to this all over the world...The unfortunate fact that this one happened right down here in Webster is a moot point...
I doubt this is the last one...
Nobody seems to believe that putting a rope or cord around your neck and jumping off a support is a wise thing to do, if you don't have to do it...
So if the spin off of this story, and the ones like it turn into this pityfest that we should not have executed (technically it wasn't us, it was the Iraqi Government) Saddam Hussien so soon...
I have zero pity for the families that exploit the stupidity of their inaction to prevent these tragedies on that premise...
But I can already see from what I saw at lunch today that it is being spun like that...