Young People and Their World

YOUTH: the nicest time of life, young person is fit, strong, have enough energy to face problems, tries new things, people tolerate his/her faults because of lack of experience. 2 groups of young people: teenagers, people between 20 - 30. Young people want to go their own way, to finish school study, find a job, have family and children, to buy or build a house, to have rights and liberty, get their personal goals…
Teenagers: special group, not children neither adults, strongly influenced by friends, parents, teachers and youth culture.
Young people: are a bit different, finished school, have job, earning a living, different problems than teenagers (to find a place to live, they are married and have children – aware of social problems, problems in the world)…

APPEARANCE: important to be sexy, stylish, attractive for the opposite sex, to have good make-up, hairstyle, good figure, they are on a diet, go to gym, do sport, girls have often problems with eating habits (they eat not enough, anorexia, bulimia), boys as well (gym, fitness, steroids, vitamins to take on the weigh, steroids…).
MODE: bit importance for young people, they want to say something with their style, to have best clothes, shoes, prefer brand name clothing, some of them are well dressed, the other attract attention with specific clothing, piercing, hairstyle… For many of young people is good mode style the most important thing, but also behaviour and character are important.
CHARACTER: determined by family, parents, influenced by friends, schoolmates, also by era (now different conditions to live, new inventions, school, free time, duties…). Each person had different character – positive & negative features:
Positive: talent, honesty, bravery, courage, generosity, willingness, care, responsibility, diligence (usilovnosť)…
Negative: selfishness, violence, malicious (zlomyselný), carefree (ľahkovážny), curiosity, stubbornness (tvrdohlavosť)…
INTERESTS: various – mode, music, disco, travelling, cinema, TV, dance, musical instrument…

THEIR PROBLEMS: are different, problems and duties at school, with teacher and schoolmates, parents (some parents do not have time for they children because of work) and siblings at home, with pocket money, friends, girlfriend/ boyfriend, appearance, generation problems – generation gap, with job (some have part-time job to earn money), with household work (lazy to help at home)…
GENERATION GAP: troubles, misunderstanding between 2 generation (parents-child, parents-grandparents, child-grandparents), young people change habits, hobbies, friends – that worry parents, they are confused, grandparents are too interested and not satisfied with way how their children rare their grandchildren, important is conversation, compromises.
 
NEGATIVE FEATURES: influence of friends can be positive/negative (smoking, theft – krádež, battles, scramble – bitka, alcohol, drugs, criminality), solution (therapies, communication with family & psychologists…)
Violence: School (class collective does not accept, ignores somebody), disco (scrambles)…
Alcohol, drugs: influenced by family, have money, incorrect friends, problems – bad solution – try drugs, alcohol
 
POSSIBILITIES: in this modern era – many chances to study (various primary, secondary schools, universities, language schools, courses, study abroad...), or work (a lot of free positions – gastronomy, science, services, work abroad).