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Youth surveys have shown that the young sometimes have moral standards just as high, if not higher, than those of adults, says the respected scholar who has done research in the fields of citizenship, moral and values education.
One study he did on youth in Hong Kong, for example, showed that they expressed deep respect for their parents. 'They sometimes don't know how to communicate with their parents, but they know that fulfilling filial piety is not just giving money to them, but also spending time with them. -
The problem, he says, is that people tend not to notice when the values that they have imbibed since they were young no longer take pride of place in society.
While frugality, for example, is a long-cherished virtue, it is increasingly at odds with capitalist economies where employment is dependent on people spending - rather than saving - money. - 4 more annotation(s)...
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""窃以少年老成，中国称人之语也；年长而勿衰，英、美人相勖之辞也，此亦东西民族涉想不同、现象趋异之一端欤？青年之于社会，犹新鲜活泼细胞之在人身。新陈代谢，陈腐朽败者无时不在天然淘汰之途，与新鲜活泼者以空间之位置及时间之生命。人身遵新陈代谢之道则健康，陈腐朽败之细胞充塞人身则人身死；社会遵新陈代谢之道则隆盛，陈腐朽败之分子充塞社会则社会亡."
Roughly translated, Chinese people like to compliment young people for being mature, where as British and Americans like to encourage each to stay young while growing old. Young people are like the fresh and active cells of a body. If there is no metabolism and the old cells don't get replaced by the young ones, the body dies. Society works the same way.
Chen Duxiu said this in 1915. Nearly a century later, we are still trying to make young people boring old people."
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"Historically in any country and in any context it's young people who are at the core of protests," says Gopal. "But at this moment in history we're seeing a shared sense of deprivation among the young, a shared sense of there being a democracy deficit across the world. In all these places neoliberal economic policies have intensified their hold and affected young people most directly, young people looking for employment, study, prospects. I think it has cut young people to the bone, and they're confronting it directly."
Two other common motifs run through this year's rebellions. First has been the collapse in authority of traditional institutions; from Mubarak's cult of personality to the seemingly incessant scandals engulfing Britain's arbiters of political, financial and cultural control – bankers, MPs, and the Murdoch media empire. The crumpling is contagious, fuelling rebellions in the most of places.
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The second commonality has been the tools used to mobilise dissent. Although the role of online social media in the Arab uprisings has often been overstated, there can be no doubt that platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have enabled diverse groups to quickly garner broad support for acts of resistance – and that this means of communication has coloured the internal organisation of protest movements.
Of Muslim youths aged 15 – 25, “More than 70% — among them slightly more males than females — want the Quran to replace the Federal Constitution of Malaysia,” said the survey report recently published on the website of Merdeka Centre, an opinion survey organisation.
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Yet, the same report noted that few Muslim youths read the Quran often or understand it well. That being the case, the desire for the Quran to replace the existing constitution seems to signal less any true understanding of Islamic concepts of governance and jurisprudence, but more a frustration with and loss of confidence in the constitution.
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Just 18.1% read the Quran often, 8.6% never do so and the rest of them read it sometimes. Their low understanding of the Quranic verses could be a factor for the rather low reading rate which necessitates the knowledge of Arabic, which is taught at rather low proficiency levels in High School. Only 0.9% of youths understand all the verses and 11.7% understand most of them, while the vast majority (78.4%) understand rather little. Age makes little difference to their ability to understand the Quran. Rural youths appear to experience more difficulties than urban youths.
– Muslim Youth Survey 2011 Malaysia and Indonesia
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studies in Salt Lake City by Lisa Diamond, an associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah, found that young gays had as many friends and were just as popular and socially connected as other teenagers.
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The composition of their friendships is somewhat different, she noted. Gay teenagers tend to go out of their way to befriend youths of other races or those who are stigmatized for their looks.
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