The Brain behind the action

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As shown on the image above, the production centre for dopamine affects big parts of your brain. These parts can make you addicted and affect your behaviour. It is the rush feeling you get when attending football matches or fighting. You can get the same feeling through sex and chocolate etc.

Violent people can be found everywhere, but some places more regularly, because the communities allow it. People are violent or have a violent attitude towards conflict, because the civilians have been used to crime and low living standards where they would have to protect themselves, so as a defence they learn how to provoke violence in their children to defend themselves and violence become a part of their life. This is the case in the city of Potosi in Bolivia where the local people practice the Tinku, which is the form of ritual conflict. The upbringing has definitely an impact on the rate of people using violence as defence mechanism but this is simply cultural. This is for many of us very different from our part of the world, where I was raised with the message that violence cannot solve anything good. This does not stop people from being violent in the more developed parts of the world, where People from good backgrounds join gangs and practice violence to gain respect of just for sake of doing it and experiencing a rush. In the documentary “How violent are you” the interviewer talks to ex-hooligan Danny Brown, who justifies his need of violence to be a sort of a drug for him. He had never felt the need of taking drugs and he isn’t a good drinker, but standing in front of a marching crowd is what got him going and feeling the adrenaline rush. I believe It might be that Danny Brown was born with certain genes that makes violence more suitable to him and therefore have made him an addict because of the need he felt to experience that rush he got. .

These two examples of people/groups are for me very different, but have same behaviour patterns, which are triggered because of different reasons. The Bolivians practice violence to learn how to protect them in an unsafe environment where it is more like animals in the wilderness, whilst the hooligans do it because it is fun, exciting and they get an adrenaline kick.

Strom, Jim. "How to Control Dopamine | EHow.com." EHow | How to Videos, Articles & More - Discover the Expert in You. | EHow.com. Web. 12 Nov. 2011

How Violent are you, Michael Portillo, BBC documentaries, 12 Nov. 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kk4bz