0 a situation in which a criminal group demands money from a store owner, company, etc. in exchange for agreeing not to harm them: --
run a protection racket These thugs ran a vast protection racket with which all property-owners had to co-operate if they hoped to survive.
1 a criminal system of taking money from people in exchange for agreeing not to hurt them or damage their property: --
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Consider the protection racket-organized crime's practice of providing "protection" for restaurants, shops, and other businesses in return for regular payments.
Examples like that of the protection racket are difficult to reconcile with the claim that practices (and motivating reasons to participate in them) necessarily generate normative reasons.
Second, stamp trading resembles the protection racket, since the threat is always there that another trader will use stamps.
The protection racket of the stamp trading firms is one of the sinister aspects of this stamp trading development.
There may well be a danger that this might become, as he described it, a type of minor protection racket.
It has become the largest protection racket ever invented.
Naturally the protection racket flourishes, particularly where gaming takes place, and as gambling has increased so has the protection racket.
The protection racket has been aggravated by the clubs but it is not new.
Managing Your Emotions
What makes me angry?
Vad gör mig arg?
Mostly，l hate when someone tries to make someone else feel bad.
För det mesta hatar jag när någon försöker få någon annan att må dåligt.
I have to admit that once, when l was actually called names.
Jag måste erkänna att en gång, när jag faktiskt kallades öknamn.
l regretted doing this afterwards, but not full heartedly because l think l was provoked in that situation.
Jag ångrade detta efteråt, men inte helhjärtat eftersom jag tror att jag blev provocerad i denna situation.
The most postive way of dealing with anger is talking about the problem.
Det mest positiva sättet att hantera ilska är att prata om problemet.
l talk to someone who listens, or l'll write my thoughts down on paper.
Jag pratar med någon som lyssnar, annars skriver jag ner mina tankar på papper.
Learning how to deal with anger as you're growing up is so important.
Att lära sig att hantera ilska när du växer upp är så viktigt.
When you're younger, you might yell,or cry when you're angry, but as you get older, you're expected to handle your emotions much better.
När du är yngre kan du skrika eller gråta när du är arg, men när du blir äldre blir du förväntas hantera dina känslor mycket bättre.
Learning to control your emotion now will prevent you from doing something that you'll regret later on in life!
Att lära sig att kontrollera dina känslor nu kommer att hindra dig från att göra något som du kommer att ångrar sig senare i livet!
