I hate young people

LegacyUser

This is a bit of a strange one but I think I hate young people who live around the area I live. When I say young I mean like teenagers and its strange coz I am only 24 myself so not exactly a senior citizen. I am not usually bothered by teenagers at all and it is only since I have moved to my current place where I live. I don't want to mention where I live as I don't want to offend or stereotype anybody who lives in one of these areas but it is a large suburban area with lots of different neighborhoods and communities so shouldn't be too difficult to guess.

Having not grown up in one of these large areas I feel absolutely no connection with the place and since the large majority of people who live around me are natives of the place, I actually feel like an outsider more than anything. The thing is though I couldn't care less and do not plan on ever settling down here yet I still get bothered by the people around me. I actually get depressed when I see groups of young people hanging around outside shops and I dread every trip I have to take to the local shopping mall as this is just grim. I'm not some yuppy and am from a very working class background myself but as horrible as this makes me sound, I feel I am above a lot of these people. They just seem doomed to be in this place for the rest of their lives and seem oblivious to anywhere else in the world outside of this social bubble. I look at these kids and think to myself that many of them will never be able to mix with other cultures and will grow up very narrow minded.

I dunno why I get bothered by this and I know it makes me a bit stuck up but I'm not gonna lie, this is how I feel when I see a lot of people who live around me. I also think that if I had to stay in this place for the rest of my life or raise a family here that I would never be able to do so as I find it so hopeless and depressing. Dunno what the point of this post is really and I'm aware how bad it makes me sound but I'm just being totally honest. I'm actually a very level headed and friendly person who treats everyone with respect but it kind of worries me that I think these thoughts about some of the people who live around me.

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Chessala

I don't think it makes you stuck up or anything like that. I am 26, so not much older than you, and I have the same problem. Watching teenagers nowadays...to me it kind of feels like they have no respect for anyone. I know I am stereotyping a lot and there probably are a lot of decent teens around if you'd get the possibility to sit down with them but...let's face it, the first impression they often give is not exactly trustworthy.

For me those thoughts already started when I was still a teenager myself. I watched the 7th graders in my school when I was about to finish secondary school and was wondering where their respect is. When my friends and me came to our secondary school we treated our seniors and teachers friendly and respectful. In contrary the younger ones in school later screamed jokes about us through hallways and made fun of everyone, not to mention treating (decent) teachers like trash. What are we supposed to think of youth nowadays?

Personally I already find it horrifying how some of them dress...buying clothes 2 sizes too small and in horrible combination...screaming around and disturbing people....well...you get the picture....

I realy thing there are decent teens out there but the appearance they have nowadays and their behaviour just doesn't reflect it...

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Chessala wrote: »

I don't think it makes you stuck up or anything like that. I am 26, so not much older than you, and I have the same problem. Watching teenagers nowadays...to me it kind of feels like they have no respect for anyone. I know I am stereotyping a lot and there probably are a lot of decent teens around if you'd get the possibility to sit down with them but...let's face it, the first impression they often give is not exactly trustworthy.

For me those thoughts already started when I was still a teenager myself. I watched the 7th graders in my school when I was about to finish secondary school and was wondering where their respect is. When my friends and me came to our secondary school we treated our seniors and teachers friendly and respectful. In contrary the younger ones in school later screamed jokes about us through hallways and made fun of everyone, not to mention treating (decent) teachers like trash. What are we supposed to think of youth nowadays?

Personally I already find it horrifying how some of them dress...buying clothes 2 sizes too small and in horrible combination...screaming around and disturbing people....well...you get the picture....

I realy thing there are decent teens out there but the appearance they have nowadays and their behaviour just doesn't reflect it...

Ireland's youth has turned into scum.
I'm 19, yet I remember how I respected the older people in school(we didnt have respect for some of our teachers cause they treated us like 4 year olds, so we childishly returned the favour, resulting in a vicious circle). By the time I reached 5th/6th year suddenly those 2 years below and onwards seemed as if they were from a differen't planet. They were ignorant, completely disrespectful. It seemed as if the code to respect those older than you never entered their heads, and I also noticed their behaviour was appalling, behaving like snobby infants.

What caused this change, I dont quite understand but my guess would be the increasingly large number of kids who have divorced/split parents and lack a solid background. A kid's respect/manners/etiquette is generally formed by the kid's parents. However if the parents are split I cant imagine the child learns much about this. If they end up learning it in school or on the street it would be quite obvious that its gonna end up quite bad.
I guess you can't really blame the kids if they never learned it. Honestly, looking at the world in general, its a rotten place, so no surprise the kiddos are going down hill.

Velocitee

You're not alone, I am a 26 year old male from a country background- living in a 'supposed' well to do area in South Dublin.

I also live near shops and local kids kick a ball at our wall/ sit on the wall/ shout and keep us awake at night - seem to be drawn like flies to the place.

Parents in my view are to blame - send them on the street for them to babysit each other as they don't want to put up with them over the easter break. :rolleyes:

Yesterday, saw a kid climb to the top of a 25 ft lamppost :eek: It swayed away and didn't know would it support him.

Saw a 15 -16 year old guy pass the window and go into my garden to get a football today. Went out to him and and told him to get out (was furious, anyway I'm a big enough guy so no attitude from him). I gave him the ball and told him knock on the door in future and I'd get the ball. (he did the second time).

I don't draw them on me as I don't want any vendettas but at the same time I'm not afraid to lay down the law where our property is concerned etc. (My car was covered in Pepsi another night). The cops are called twice a month here by neighbours (shocking I find - if the cops were ever called on me when I was that age, I wouldn't be let out again!) and the kids disperse but it's way worse with the holidays.

I used to be like you too, would have a fear in the back of my mind about them doing something as I walked past to the shop etc. Don't have this any more though as I find just walking confidently with head up (and ignoring them if possible) doesn't draw them on me.

So chin up OP - my advice is just go about your business and ignore them.

BroomBurner

I think the examples above aren't really problems with the youth of today, they're problems with the youth of every single generation.

When I was a kid, there were others around my age who would sit around on people's garden walls, shout, be a pain, the usual nonsense. I know that I never thought twice about doing knick-knocks on strangers doors.

It's not that the kids are getting worse, it's that we're all getting older, wiser, and more empathetic to how our actions affect other people. Kids and teenagers (most of, not all) haven't got that yet.

I'm not saying that it's all rosey, or anything, and there's a world of difference between stealing apples from an orchard and stealing mobiles of people, but I just think that their level of maturity has to be taken in to consideration too.