!The GunGrave of Trigun

Well yes the youth is getting worst because we have more tecnolgoly sorry about the spelling and thats whats causing the bad things into days youth but even back then kids have been lazy and acted up so thats not weird .

lebasiara

Youth has come to a point where it is going down bit by bit. Not only here in America but in the whole world. I am from Latin America and there shamefully the youth has lost respect for almost everything. Young men from very early ages see and treat girls as sex objects. And when I say very early ages I am talking about 13 foreward. The respect to one another has been gone. And I don't even want to mention the respect towards old people... "those old rags what are they going to know about life?" ya know what I mean "doooooooog" ?"
We as young people believe we know it all and we know how to handle ourselves. hummmmmmmm.... and that "I know it all" syndrome is hitting earlier ages everytime.

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kyzr

Please don't forget, there's a lot of good to be seen in today's youth as well. Many of us are bright, kind, law-abiding people. Since we don't parade our idiocy, you just don't notice as many of us.

There are countless things wrong with today's youth.

And. There are many problems with today's adult population, as well. Have you watched the news lately? Kept up with politics?

If the kids are acting like jackasses, where do you think they're getting it from?

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NightFox

I have seen that our generation changes, there is a HUGE gap between me and my little sister who is 9 years younger than me. Music, style, speaking style, education...Just about
everything. But I am not entitled to criticize her at those aspects. Well maybe in education,
like my mother was entitled to criticize me. But after all, every generation is different, like it
was said before 60's was one really radical experience.

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Dark.

*sigh* adults are always picking on the youth. Suppose cuz they reason they can beat us in an argument because afterall we're all so ignorant we can't properly defend ourselves in an intelligent conversation. Come on, are you for real?

Society is not as bad as you think, first off. I'm willing to ignore your attacks on modern pop culture and music simply because I have no doubts I'll be critizing it myself when I reach middle age. And don't just look at the "bad kids" in today's youth. All my friends for the most part are smoke free, non-alcoholic, intelligent people who still know how to have a good time, and see just as much entertainment in today's society as our fellow "idiots." I think the reason it's seems worse is because so much more of it is visible in our society today is because of all our new media; particularly the internet. The internet is someplace where you can log in as a fake name and unleash all your prejudices onto the people who view the page and virtually not get in trouble for it. TV and movies are more violent and sexual, but we still have our own masterpieces in this generation. Even if you could bring back the good ole' days, would you really want to? I wouldn't, because knowing what we know now, it would never be the same. So what's wrong? Nothing's wrong, it's the same old story of the old generation clashing with the new generation only in a different time.

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P.R. Princess

mm i think alot of people are just saying that we think todays youth is bad because they are adults.....well im 16...a teenager....
and i do think that todays youth has gone down...DRAMATICALLY..its really sad.
everyday at school i see alot of people who just dont care.
and they like to blame everything on other people.
some like to say its the teacher fault they are failing
say its ok to cheat. think its ok to have sex at like 13 or 14
they think its ok to do drugs and get high. and say as long as they are passing a class that they are doing fine.
they are lazy. they think that listening to a three word song it cool.
that a song talking about banging a girl is all the rage. yea its stupid. i think that this generation is the stupdest fatest and most ignorant generation. they have no repsect for elders and like to think of themselves as invisable. yea what ever.
so yea this generation is SCREWED UP.

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Darkened_Star

If you think about it, generations above us were thought of the same way they think of us. I mean at some point who would have thought... Girls in pants all the time gasp!

But apart from that, I'm 18 and notice more and more how ignorant youth is compared to other generations, especially my own.

I've also noticed they have got more lazy and wasteful habbits. For example... Look around at some neighborhoods. In mine you can tell who's old, in the middle ages, and young people. Old peoples house are nicely kept, with their yards mowed at least once a week. Middle aged people have it mowed maybe not as often, and they may have a few toys scattered around. Young people, the grass needs to be mowed because they do it maybe once a month...maybe. Toys are outside, some that probably shouldn't be.

Then I also look at how long they keep their jobs... Most youth don't keep their job longer then a few months. They either quit because they don't like it or they actually have to... WORK. Wow imagine that having to work at your job.

It's a little scary, because if you look at some of these people's children... They're cussing, wining all the time, yelling and fighting. I mean all children do, but it seems to get worse with each generation because of what they are raised around. We sat the example for them. That's our future, just as we were to the generations before us...

Moral of the paragraph is... Our generation is lazy, wasteful, spoiled, selfish (as is everyone), and often unreliable. If it it keeps going in that direction the future is going to be aweful.

Just my opinion

EDIT: As far as music goes... I really don't like listening to songs about strippers and sex all that much either

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gamemaster331

I wouldn't necessarily say that it was today's youth that was to blame. More like its the way the kids are raised. A lot of women around here use their TVs as baby sitters and rarely discipline their kids or even sit down and chat with them about the things going on in their lives. I think it's important to communicate with your kids. And it's realy not harmful to set boundaries (as long as you don't get extreme about it). It shows kids that you care about them and don't want them to get hurt. I know a few people that wished their parents had set boundaries and limits and not tried to just be their best friends.

Steadfast

To answer the original question , Is something wrong with today's youth?

No. They are acting the way youth are expected to act. Just as adults complaining about today youth are acting as they are expected to. It just shows how out of touch the adults are in regards to the younger generation(s).