Perhaps, no issue is as significant to the propertiy of a country asthe youth. Currently, everyone is talking
about the problems of the youth. Smarter as nowadays teenagers seemto be, most of seniors believe that they are more selfish, more egoentric, andmore indifferent with our world. I, given the chance, prefer to endorse thattoday's young people are less willing to help people than the past generationsare.
To begin with, we are now living in an age of revolution with noprevious human exprience that can be referred to. The modern world moves sofast that we do not feel easy and comfortable at all. Everyone has to move fastincluding our youths in order to catch up with the majority in thisever-changing world. Our young people are enforced to learn a second languagefor the sake of a better university and published a number of papers in orderto get a handsome job. Our youths are too busy to notice the old or disablepeople who need their necessary help in this fast-changing world, even if it shouldhave been their responsiblity to help those inneed people. In spite of thedisire to give a hand for others, the new generation of young people are urgedto do something more crucial by their parents or teachers for the utilitirianpurpose. So when facing people in need, what our young people do is more likelyto go away instead of helping them like our past generation, since what ourseniors need to consider is that they have to burdon more than the pastgeneration do.
Furthermore, another detrimental factor that make our youths moreindifferent is the prevailing deception in our modern world. Facing the commondeception, our adolescent prefers to keep indifferent and go away rather thanhelp people who seem to be in need. For instance, a friend of mine has beendecepted recently. When he went back home from the school, he saw an old womanlying on the road painfully. Without hesitation, he went to help her. However,what made him annoyed and surprised was that the old lady assured that it wasmy friend who pushed her down and asked my friend to pay money back. As aresult, my friend was unwilling to give her some money angrily. Therefore, ouryoung people less help others than thepast generations due to such phenomena in case of jeopardizing their own profits.
Last but not the least, there is another significant factor thatgive negative influence on our teenagers. That is that our educational systempay more attention on pragmatic things instead of moral education. Although notonly do our teenagers learn how to solve difficult academic problems but alsothey enter into an awesome university, they do not even know they areresponsible to help peope in need. As a consequence, the new generation is lesswilling to help others than the past generations are.
All in all, as the reasons listed above that our youths focus moreon urgent things, helping others may jeopardize their profits, and oureducational system is more pragmitic, we can safely conclude that the newgeneration of youths are less likely to help others than the past generationsare. |