| Term Paper Title | Consider The Influences That Have Most Affected The Opinions And Ways Of Life Of |
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Consider the influences that have most affected the opinions and ways of life of young people in your country in recent years.
The influences of any country can be seen though the culture of that country. The culture of a country can be said to be the completeness of the country, which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. The younger generation make it an object in their lives to be part of this culture and so the customs of a country are the main influence that affects the opinions of youths.
The greatest and most widespread of influences in a country is that of the media. The media comprises of many types such as that of the television, which includes movies, music, reading material for example books, magazines and newspapers and the Internet. These influences, bad that they are, reach far and wide over Trinidad and the customs are accepted by the youths. In music for instance, each genre is fitted to different young cliques in society and the lyrics in each type of music influence the children in a different way. The genre of rap can influence the child into thinking he needs to have as many sexual relationships, do as many types of drugs, to drink as many expensive alcoholic drinks and to have as much money as possible to be a ‘man’. Whereas the genre of rock can be said to influence youths into committing suicide, killing other students and basically ‘worshipping the devil’. The television is another terrible influence as it exposes youths to situations they should not be exposed to example sex. If youths see sexual activity on the television screen they will accept what they see as the ‘norm’ and not see anything wrong with having premarital sex.
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