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Young people tune out older standards
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| June 21, 2006
| UPI Staff
Posted on 06/21/2006 5:22:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- A California psychologist says young people have become increasingly indifferent to the impression they make on others.
Jean Twenge, the author of "Generation Me," teaches at San Diego State University. She gathered data from surveys taken between 1958 and 2001 by more than 40,000 youngsters. They featured questions aimed at whether the respondents always said "please" and "thank you" or were careful to dress appropriately.
Twenge says that 76 percent of children aged 8 to 12 in 1999 were indifferent to social approval, up from 57 percent in 1970. Among those who were already in college in 2001, who are now young adults, 62 percent were indifferent, up from 56 percent in 1970.
Other psychologists and people who work with youngsters told USA Today that their experience matches Twenge's data. Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, blamed the increased use of cell phones and similar devices.
"They're tuned out in some ways to the social graces around them and the people in their lives, in their physical realm, and tuned in to the people they're with virtually," she said.
Copyright 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cellphones; dress; emilypost; generationy; impoliteness; ipods; missmanners; please; politeness; selfesteem; socialapproval; standards; thankyou; youngpeople; youth
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No surprise to anyone who works with teenagers.
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:27:06 PM PDT
by
Amelia
(Education exists to overcome ignorance, not validate it.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The word "brat" comes to mind...
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:34:45 PM PDT
by
A_perfect_lady
(DNC: The 'Lifetime' TV network of political parties. -AC)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
some of todays youth showed up at my Uncles funeral last week in Shorts and TEEShirts... are they truly clueless or just plane really don't care about anything except themselves???
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:35:28 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: Amelia
No surprise to anyone who works with teenagers. "Why can't they be like we were; Perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids today?" :-)
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:38:42 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Amelia
I'm not buying it.
Every teen-ager I see wears a "uniform". They dress similar, they do their hair the same way, they trick up their cars the same way, etc. Somehow I don't think they do this because they are immune to the opinions of their peer group.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
All because they are not beaten enough. Physical risk makes one surprisingly attentive.
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:40:53 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: webstersII
Decades from now, crotchedy old men and prudish women will be complaining about kids not exposing their boxers, shaving every day, and wearing only the most subtle of piercings.
To: Caesar Soze
To: glorgau
"All because they are not beaten enough. Physical risk makes one surprisingly attentive."
Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat with a baseball bat
Oh yeah, oh yeah, uh-oh.
[repeat]
What can you do?
What can you do?
With a brat like that always on your back
What can you do? (lose?)
--The Ramones
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:45:42 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(One flag--American. One language--English. One allegiance--to America!)
To: glorgau
All because they are not beaten enough. Physical risk makes one surprisingly attentive. Teach your children the horrors of violence.....Beat them harder every day.
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:52:48 PM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, blamed the increased use of cell phones and similar devices."
Uhhuh. As always, parenting has absolutely nothing to do with kids' behavior.
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:53:12 PM PDT
by
Sabatier
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Maybe if they listened to "older standards" such as 'The Rat Pack' or Anita Day or even today's Harry Conick or Michael Buble, there would be some hope of saving this current generation? ;)
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:56:19 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I thought the title meant they don't really hear "As Time Goes By" if you play it.
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posted on
06/21/2006 5:57:17 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A California psychologist says young people have become increasingly indifferent to the impression they make on others. Based on how I behaved as a young'un, I don't buy the assertion that kids today are any less rude than they were a generation ago. :)
To: Polybius
Well, yeah, if you want to bring up old show tunes. But despite the mentioned short comings, their self-esteem is off the scale.
To: Chode
some of todays youth showed up at my Uncles funeral last week in Shorts and TEEShirts... are they truly clueless or just plane really don't care about anything except themselves???
But they came. If they had really cared only about themselves, they would not have come at all. Today's kids don't even know a lot of the rules baby boomers grew up knowing...sometimes that is a good thing, and sometimes not. But when it comes to dressing casual, I can't get to upset about it. Of course, I think semi-formal is clean jeans and a tee shirt without writing on it. :)
To: Chode
some of todays youth showed up at my Uncles funeral last week in Shorts and TEEShirts... are they truly clueless or just plane really don't care about anything except themselves???
But they came. If they had really cared only about themselves, they would not have come at all. Today's kids don't even know a lot of the rules baby boomers grew up knowing...sometimes that is a good thing, and sometimes not. But when it comes to dressing casual, I can't get to upset about it. Of course, I think semi-formal is clean jeans and a tee shirt without writing on it. :)
To: goldfinch
they came because they were sniffing around for his daughter... not because of her father.
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posted on
06/21/2006 6:11:06 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When I was young, I didn't care for the old standards either. But as I get older, I find myself listening to Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison much more frequently.
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posted on
06/21/2006 6:17:27 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I think Randy Travis must be paying his bills on home computer by now)
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