Young people and society

It is said that youth is the nicest times of ones life. As a young person you are fit, strong and have enough energy to face problems, in fact you do not think about any problems, you look forward to every day in which you may try something new and challenging and people around you tend to talerate your faults because of your lack of life experience.


When speaking about young people we should be aware of the fact that there are two different groups of young people-teenagers and those between twenty and thirty.Both groups have something in common, but there are also differences between them.


Teenagers are a special group, they are not children any more, neither are they adults. They are strongly influenced by their friends, reasonably influenced by their parents and partly influenced by their teachers, but there are also youth culture influences that may be important.

As teenagers grow up, they develop interactions with people outside home, each of them becomes an individual person with his/her own ideals. Teenagers want to live independently, they oppose older generation so they often have conflicts with their parents and teachers. Most of them attend secondary schools and prepare themselves for their future profession. They spend most of their time at school or studying for the following school day, in their leisure time they like getting together with friends, listening to music, playing computer games and going to parties and discos. Most of them live with their parents, have to help in the house and are given some pocket money to spend on cassettes, cosmetics and small luxuries. Those teenagers who want to have their own money try to find a part-time job,especially during school holidays. Working in the afternoons or at weekends could be veryuseful, it may help teenagers to prepare for their future. Some teenagers especially in the USA, but also in other European countries leave their family at the age of eighteen and live with their friends in rented flats. Parents usually do not object because living on ones own may help young people to become responsible. Some people say i tis better than any parents advice.


Young people between tweenty and thirty are a bit different. Most of them have finished schools and have found a job, so they earn their living. Their problems are different from those of teenagers. They are adults and so they have to find a place to live. Many get married and have children so they become more aware of social problems. They are more concerned about the world-wide problems of poverty, diseases, the pollution of our environment, racial discrimination, nuclear and chemical weapons and terrorism. They organize demonstrations for peace and fight for equality. Many of them work for charities, help disabled and homeless and collect money for starving people in Africa and Asia.