The article I found is about a survey done by the Straits Times to see how many teens actually know anything about the US presidential race. Shockingly, about two-thirds of the students interviewed did not know anything about the US presidential race as they simply “did not care”. Statistically, Of those aged 15 to 17, three got Obama's gender wrong, 14 tagged John Edwards to the wrong party, and four think Hillary and Bill Clinton are siblings.
It seems that teenagers of the 21st century are beginning to adopt this “I don’t care” attitude. There is also a prejudice for those who are both well informed (and also most of the time getting reasonably good grades) and they are called “muggers”. This attitude can be seen from one of the everyday things that we do: crossing the road. When my mum “chauffeurs” me from place to place, we often encounter teenagers in school uniform crossing the road without looking out for traffic. This adoption is bad, and it is spreading.
Why and how is this happening? These days, teenagers are having a more “free” lifestyle, as their parents give them a lot of freedom to do whatever they want. This would obviously spoil them as they would only care about themselves, leading them to not caring about anything that does not concern them. This type of attitude would be seen as “cool” and friends would then also adopt this attitude leading to a passing on of the “I don’t care disease”.
Well, personally I feel that this should not be the case in our modern society where information is so easily obtainable and people are more sensitive towards how others treat them. I also feel that this attitude that teens are adopting is sometimes quite selfish as this would lead to only being concern with things that concern themselves. For example, if your mother asks you to clean your room up so she can mop the floor, a typical teenager would not care as he/ she would think that his/ her mother cleaning the room does not concern him/ her. Therefore, one can conclude that this attitude brings out unhappiness and selfishness. This could also lead to the downfall of the person in life, where the teenager does not care about his studies and fails his examinations. Instead, we should be more concern about others needs, putting others before self, thinking if our actions would affect others and also love yourself and always give it your best.
Thinking about the statistics revealed in the newspaper, I just simply cannot imagine what the next generations of leaders would be like if all of them have the “I don’t care” attitude and if they do not bother to change.
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