Young people
- What are the young people like? What do they hate, what do they love?
– they have their own culture
– they are less likely to respect authorities
– they want to do everything as the adults do
– they are very sensitive to the things which happen around them – family, school, friends
– they want to try a lot of things so they try, alcohol, free love
– for most of them it is important to be “in”, they want dress according to the fashion trends, to have the latest mobile phones and mp3 players
- How do they spend they free time?
– except from going to school, young people use to spend a lot of their free time being with their friends and partners, doing their hobbies (a lot of people do regularly some sport). They spent a lot of time browsing the internet, boys play computer games and girls love going shopping. At weekends, they like going to the discos or to pubs to have fun and to be among people.
- What are their ambitions?
– according to my opinion, the ambitions of teenagers change with their age. But generally they want to have a computer, to have trendy clothes, to find love,…As they get older, they start to think more about the future – their future profession, school,…They want to be successful and rich, but not everybody has the chance to turn this dreams into reality.
- What are their problems and why?
– young people (so called teenagers) are considered to be not enough old to understand serious things, not to be responsible…
– although it seems they should have easy lives (no work, no children, not have to pay bills,…) its not true – a lot of them have serious problems:
– drug abuse, suffer from alcoholism – though young people tend to spend a lot of their free time with their friends, they don’t want to be different. So they try alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. It’s easy to get addicted, because the more you try it, the more is it hard to stop. Sometimes drugs and alcohol are the way how to solve problems – e.g. with love, parents…Teenagers think they have it under control but soon they realize that these substances control them.
– members of criminal and other gangs – the teenagers become the members of these groups mostly thanks to their situation at home – they have dysfunctional family so they find another one – the gang
– chicane – if you’re different, weaker personality and you have no friends you have a problem, especially when you are young.
– parents – parents play important role in our lives – thy love us, they help us and they support us. But in a lot of cases they influence us in negative way:
– divorce – it might be both negative and positive. In case that one of your parents is addicted, you experience home violence or some other kind of improper behavior, the divorce is the best thing which can happen to you. But when you live relatively normal life and your parents are divorcing because they can’t stand with each other or they have found another person to live with, your world gets into ruins. Especially when you are younger it’s hard to understand why your mummy and daddy don’t want to live together.
– too ambitious parents – parents often want to have the smartest children, the most successful students from the class, the best ones in sport,… It is common that parents want their children to do things they could not do and to study schools they dreamt about. They don’t take care about what their child wants and that is wrong.
– the problems with parents may even result to the extreme situation that you have no place to live in. You’re parents have divorced, they have new life partners and children, and they simply don’t want you. Teenagers from these dysfunctional families often end in the street, become addicted or criminals.
– a lot of teenagers have no parents – they grow up in the children’s home and they are more likely to live their future lives at the bottom of the society
– home violence– a lot of young children experience the violence and bad language every day. This deeply influences their psyche, behavior, success at school and they are scared for life.
– love – when your are a teenager, you experience your first loves. But when they end it hurts a lot. A lot of young people cant stand it because they feel abandoned, they think they won’t live happy life again. But as the lime passes, things slowly return to normal and they realize that it wasn’t as bad as it seemed to be.
– there a lot of organisations who would like to help young people to solve their problems (Linka důvěry,…). Even at school there is a student counselor or psychologist to help them. There have been also built some Crisis centers and drug centers where are specialist who want to help and are able to help. We have also a wide web of street workers who try to help those teenagers who are afraid of going in such center.
- Generation gap
– it is common that there are differences between the generations. They speak different language, wear different clothes, have different priorities… They even think in different way. But both generations think they are true and feel misunderstand by each other. This is called the generation gap.
- Why are they often considered a symbol of a change? What role did they play in history?
– teenagers are young, full of enthusiasm and full of right ideals which they want to fight for. They are not exhausted by the life so they have enough energy to change the world!
– history and the present world gives us a lot of examples which confirm that young people are often symbols of a change – in the 1970s the Hippie movement appeared which hated war and wanted peace, in the Czech Republic there was the velvet revolution thanks for the young intellectuals and students, now the Green peace organisation gathers people who want to save the world environment.
- Give an example of successful yound people.
– among Czech young businessman there are for example Jan Rambousek (18) who is the owner of the company Mr. Pixel and one of the Czech top web designers
– another examples of successful young people is Czech model-Taťána Kuchařová, Hollywood actress –Scarlett Johansson , Czech actress – Ester Geislerová
- Why do young people have their idols? Who is yours?
– life of young people is influenced by the internet and other mass medias. There they can see rich, famous and successful people from all professions. These people are the symbols of the teenagers dreams so they become their idols.
- Are young people responsible? Why?
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