"(2) Children raised in a tradition of honor and shame, on average, grow into adulthood with a somewhat fragile self-assurance, tending to blame others for their own failures. Constructing personal and group identities has become very difficult as a culture changes from Premodern to Postmodern in a matter of a few decades, skipping much of the intermediate stage of Modernity. Thus, the social and psychological aspects affecting a young person's construction of his or her identity is an important topic essential to an understanding of the social and psychological forces that influence some young Muslims to opt for violence against those whom they blame as the cause of their hardships.
(3) Many high school students, both in America and in the Middle East, Christians and Muslims, do not learn how to analyze a text, a speech and other sources of information by using critical methods of text analysis to ascertain the truth of the text.
As a result they believe that what they see and hear is realistic and true, whether it be from news broadcasts on radio and television, by writers in the newspapers, by clerics, or by other community leaders."