Criticizing American Culture, Softly & Hesitantly

HOW CAN A three hundred pound, (many grams) six foot five inch (many centimeters) football player, all muscle, be bullied? Why doesn't Mr. Martin, the huge bullee, merely deck (knock down) Mr. Incognito, the somewhat smaller bully? Because bullying is mental, not physical, and Incognito has several easily identifiable friends, surprisingly. Besides, when guys that size get hit by other guys that big, bad things happen. The locker room culture in American football is a direct reflection of football culture on the field, which in turn is a direct reflection of, and response to, American football culture in general. In other words, there are Tens of millions of good mainstream Americans who want football to be as violent as possible, just like they seem to want their society to be violent in general. What else can aggressive behavior lead to, other than violence? Are Americans trained to behave confidently, or meekly? Confidently, you'd have to say. The line between confidence and arrogance and aggressive behavior is so razor thin that it is crossed and recrossed constantly without notice. The more competition you teach, the more competition you're gonna have. The more competition you have, the more violence you have. Ergo, a culture which teaches and encourages competition teaches and encourages violence. Obviously, competition and cooperation are both good, natural, and work together well. The devil is in the details. How should they be balanced? It might possibly be posited that a culture which lines up six year old girls on stages and chooses the winner is just a tad too competitive. Especially if that same country's culture has a perpetual epidemic of violence within its own borders, and makes a habit of exporting highly organzed and destructive violence everywhere else in the world. Whether that is true of the United States, it could be, shall we say, "suggested". Heaven forbid that we should ever make any criticism of our beloved America and American culture, because we must be and are patriotic, but, well, ther are times when certain facts seem a bit, shall we say, "apparent"?