On Monday, in my Spanish class, I asked my teacher what she thought about teenagers being treated as adults when they turned 18, and she gave us a long lecture that is too long for me to remember everything. In summation, she told us that It was fair treatment for an 18-year-old person to be seen as an adult, because of all the experiences and all the critical situations he/or she is exposed to. Because the television and all the media has made us grow more quickly than the teenagers of her time. "Everything was more secluded in my time. You didn't talk back to your parents neither question their petitions. Neither did you talked with them about the things teenagers talk with everyone now. Everything was a taboo. Now teenagers talk about sex and drugs with more ease, and can question adults if the teenager thinks he is not being treated fair. I think all of this is very beneficial for society, because now everyone can talk about their problems. But the problem is that not everybody approaches those topics." Aside from the freedom media has given us to talk of these topics, it has also shown us many other things. The actual war of Iraq has been the most televised war, and kids watch news daily and listen to all the murders and captivities this war has caused----not only war deaths, but crimes that happen as far as the other side of the world and as near to local vicinities.
Then she made a comment about how we enjoy watching fights and watching the suffering of the other people. This may not apply to everybody, but I am sure that her comment covers the names of the majority of today's teenagers; they now participate in activities full of debauchery and extreme ghoulishness. And I ask myself, do the media collaborate, or influence teenagers to get involve with this? In most cases, parents always want the best for their children, therefore they teach them the preferred manners, and warn their children of what is right and what is wrong. There are TV programs, movies, songs, where false dreams and situations are projected, where the actor or singer is at a party, enjoying himself with a lot of women, money, alcohol and drugs. Obviously media shows what sells best, and this is what youth wants to see. We do have to much experience when we get to 18.
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I too believe that by the time we are 18 it is fair that we be treated as adults, or young adults if you will. And your teacher is right about what she told you guys. Now-a-days we have media that is much more open and that discloses much more than it did in past years. It is definitely something that has allowed society today to become much more open with these topics, but it is also something that has opened many doors for the advertisement industry to just throw stuff out there that maybe shoudn't.
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