Graffiti is art or vandalism and why?

Ku Klux Klan or street gangs like the Bloods and the Crypts , but for most people , it is rubbish People simply don 't want to live in a city where they see graffiti all over public transportation , walls , rest rooms , benches , monuments or other forms of property

Even a boulder in a national park deserves respect . Sometimes , people even carve words and symbols on trees or spray paint boulders just for personal pride . Sometimes tourists feel the urge to prove that they were there or to literally make their mark at a

special place that they visited . But it doesn 't really prove anything more than the fact that they are vandals . If they truly want to impress others about their trip , they should take only pictures instead of vandalizing the natural environment

In China , graffiti is also used for political propaganda . As the BBC reports , in the 1920s , Mao Zedong , China 's communist founder and revolutionary , used graffiti in the form of slogans and paintings to spread his ideology . He even wrote a graffiti containing 4 ,000 characters , a world record , criticizing China 's terrible societal status and the teachers he had who contributed to it . He later caused much bloodshed , upheaval and suffering among the Chinese people , and it was only later , starting from Deng Xiaoping who reformed China 's economy with a capitalist model , that the country started to progress . Some current Chinese communist party members use a legalized ' graffiti wall in Beijing that supposedly allows artists to express their feelings . However , local residents claim that it is not real graffiti they say it is just a bunch of paintings on a wall that depict the party 's propaganda , mimicking the old Mao techniques used in the early days of the revolution

In the end , while some...