The Young and their world
The Young and their world
Adolescence is a stage of development between childhood and
adulthood when a person is biologically adult. Their physical or psychological development is almost complete but emotionally they
aren’ t fully mature.
A term youth includes teenagers from the age of 13 till the age of 19 but also young
adults from 20 till 30.
- What is a position of young people in society?
Rights: Young people have basic rights as all of the people in the world. It is different in each country. There
are different age limits for driving a car, buying alcohol or cigarettes or working. In
Slovakia law allows kids over 15 to have a legal part-time job. Legal drinking is allows of 18. Also driving car is allows of 18. In Slovakia it is
18, in USA it is the age of 21 when they are responsible for themselves.
Opportunities: Young people have
lot of opportunities. They are young and they can do everything what they want, because they don’t have pledges. They can
work and study; they can travel, recognize foreign land and obtain new experiences. There are also some
disadvantages. In opinion of adults and elderly people are young people not enough responsible, they don’t have experiences.
Young
Families : Many young people today start their own families later in life than
their parents did. They want to work on their career first and get married later. They
can’t afford to buy their own flat or start a family. It‘ s because it is difficult for them to find a job because they
don’t have enough work experience when they finish school and
because there are few job opportunities in Slovakia. They often travel to foreign
countries to learn a foreign language, earn money and gain experience. Young families are different nowadays. In modern families they share
chores, husbands help at home more.
- How would u characterize a typical teenager?
Appearance: Young people like to dress nicely. They like to wear brand name
clothing.
They like being fit and attractive. Girls want to be slim and boys want to
look fit and have strong muscles – that’s why boys often go to the fitness centre and girls are often on diets because they want to loose
weight. They dye their hair and use a lot of cosmetics. They also like to have piercing and tattoos.
Character: Thier emotional life is much more intensive than
before. They have their dreams and plans for
future. Love and friendship become the most important
values. They like their friends and they like spending time with them. Young
people like to be independent and respected - they know what they want from life. They don’t like
criticism and they don’t like to be told what to do.
Some young people are nowadays very
cheeky,rude and impolite and they don’t care about other people. Sometimes they
are lazy – they don’t help other people.
Life style: They want their life to
be interesting and exciting. In the developed world, young people
are usually well-educated, experienced and
self-confident. They know their goals and try to reach them. They are often hardworking
and they have many opportunities to study or work abroad – they often travel to foreign countries to learn a foreign language, earn money and gain
experience.
Interests & leisure time: They like to go out with friends – they go to
pubs, cinema, discos, music festivals… The modern inventions and gadgets make our lives easier . They can’t imagine life without
the mobile phone or the computer. They use Internet to shopping on-line, find information, chatting, to keep in touch with friends .
They spend a lot of time playing computer games or listening to music. Young girls like to buy new clothes and
make-up. Most young people like sport – they like
to go skiing, swimming…
- Relationships among adults and youngsters…
Peers: The
friendship is one of the most important values in the lives of young people. Friends are used to getting together. They have same or
similar attitudes and views. They share their opinions,experiences and feelings between each other, they help each other.
Parents: Many of young people, especially teenagers have some conflicts with their parents.
Young people often criticize their parent´s conservative lifestyle. They claim that parents dont give them enough
freedom. They dont like when their parents criticize their friends, clothes or hairstyle. They think parents are underestimate them,
and they also complain that they dont have enough pocket money, or that they are not allowed to come home later.
- What
influences young people?
Young people are influenced by friends, peers, social rules, mass
media…Each of these influences young people in different ways.
Parents: Young people need parent’ s attention. Parents
actually influence their kids more than they know. Kids with supportive parents are more self-confident and they have higher
grades in school and lower levels of depression, fighting and other risky behaviors. Unfortunately, most
parents are busy with work.
Friends: Another thing that influences young people is friends and peers. When young people have
bad friends they are influenced in bad ways. They get bad experience. Good friends can influence
young people in many ways. They can influence them to build the best qualities. For example: to doing their best in a sport, at
school or in their social life.
Mass Media : influences on young people in the wrong ways. It makes them
more violent, passive and more sexual.
- What are the problems of young people?
Teenagers face many challenges on their way through adolescence. They want all try. Smoking is one
of the most widespread problems of young people. Teenage smoking is often caused by the peer pressure. Because each
teenager wants to fit in with the rest of the group and wants to be cool… The same comes with taking drugs and drinking
alcohol.
School violence is another serious issue appearing in the life of teenagers. Also called
bullying. People may be bullied for no particular reason or because of the colour of their skin, wearing glasses or being
different.
- What do u think about the importance of friendship?
I think that friendship
is one of the most beautiful relations of all. Friends are our truest treasures. I think real friend should be
always there for us, accept us as we are. We can even trust them. Building a circle of friends makes us
happy, we don‘ t feel alone. Friends are those who cheer us up when we are sad. They motivate us to
achieve the goals of our lives. Without them we are simply nothing. Life would loose all its meaning and charm.
- In what
ways are Slovak, British and American people different?
In american movies are teenagers often described as young people who dont
care about study, they just wanna party. But I‘ m sure that‘ s not true. Maybe there are some differences. Different countries have different
ways of life.
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