IW#16 Young people's decision regarding the future of a
country has a positive influence on society.
Over the past few
decades, many young people have made dynamic movements regarding the future of
their countries. So, it has been generally argued whether young people’s decisions
regarding the future of a country have a positive influence on society. Some people
might argue that young people’s decisions about their country’s future will have
negative consequences on society because they are less experienced and
irresponsible, while others might disagree with this statement. However, I am deeply convinced that young
people’s decisions regarding the future of a country will definitely positively
affect society. Actually, I have a couple of reasons to support my opinion
and will explain and develop them in the next following paragraphs below.
First of all, young people’s decisions regarding the
future of a country will have a positive influence
on society because they are more passionate about their world than the older
generation. Since young people acknowledge that they will be
continuing their lives in society, they are more passionate about making
better changes and building things that will raise the quality of the society. Although some people might say that
today’s young people are inexperienced and less knowledgeable than the older
generation, young people have proven their
passion for the society over the past years. To give an example of this, my father often tells
me about the past of my country and how young people stood up in times of
political and social crisis. When he was young, he lived in the middle of the
city, and there were many demonstrations against the government. Those
demonstrations were made by university students. In front of his house, the
police and the demonstrating students would wrestle each other harmfully. Many
students were injured and held captive for days afterwards; however the student demonstrations
never ceased. Even until recently, students are making movements and dynamic
statements whenever the government has something to fix in the country. When
there was a huge shipwreck in my country and it was all due to the president’s
irresponsibility, a great multitude of people demonstrated in front of the Blue House
for weeks. Many of them were passionate students, and some of them made strong,
encouraging and passionate speeches that sought justice and renovation in the
future of the country. Like this, young people are more passionate and
restless than the older generation, which means that young people’s decisions
regarding the future of a country will eventually have positive influences on
society.
Moreover, young people’s choice-makings in the future of
a country will beneficially affect society because they have more creative and
innovative ideas for the country. This is because young people
are more engaged in modern ideas and education. Unlike young people, older
people tend to stick to tradition and old ways rather than make novel changes. Some people might disagree by saying that
young people tend to act irresponsibly and will not be able to make good
decisions due to such tendency. However, not all young people act the same way,
while a majority of them have astoundingly innovative minds. For instance, there was an experiment held for
two groups of people. One group was a group of young people in their 20s, and
the other group was a group of people over the age 40-50s. They were equally
shown one documentary about two countries in a social and political fight with
each other and were asked to imagine the same thing happening to their own
country and think of a way to reduce such a conflict. We might expect the older
people to think of better ways to solve the problem and the younger people to
make irresponsible ideas. However, there was a surprise. Although the group of
older people gave very realistic ideas, there was no diversity in them. It was
the same general idea about ways to reduce conflict that anyone could think of.
On the other hand, the group of younger people made various kinds of novel
ideas that were extremely creative, and they took the conflict very seriously. This
shows that young people’s choice-makings regarding a country can beneficially
influence society.