What myths exist about Youth Culture?
There are many myths that exist about Youth Culture, some of them are real but the majority are false. Most of the ‘older’ generation assume that the youth do drugs, since that is what they see on the news and read in the newspaper but this is mostly false. Some of the youth do drugs, yes but defiantly not the majority. They also say many youth do drugs and stuff like that to be popular, and to fit in, but most of the youth have never tried any illegal drugs & In most friend groups its looked down upon. Also they assume that because one large party gets onto the news, they assume that everybody has 500+ people parties and get drunk and high. When there are smashed windows, graffiti and other public vandalism people assume it’s the youth that did it. The youth are also blamed for shoplifting when many people who are older do it. For instance on ‘’This day tonight’’ on the 16th of July, there was an old couple who were shoplifting, and stealing handbags and due to their age most people assumed they wouldn’t do it. Some people also steal to support a drug habit or something similar.
Why do people try to enter Australia illegally?
Many people try to enter Australia illegally, they are called illegal immigrants. They enter Australia for many reasons; for instance, their country could be in war or suffering from poverty. Also many people come to Australia because our universities aren’t full; they are cheaper and are often a better learning environment then their country. Many Chinese people, for instance, come to Australia because our universities because theirs are full, due to their population being over 1Billion. There are 2003 universities through China and they can’t possibly hold the 31879000 students wanting to go to university.. Most of the universities would be in the main cities and China is a large country so it would take a long time to travel so far. They may also be planning on doing something illegal, for instance importing drugs from countries where its cheaper, they could come to Australia and sell them. They could come here for legitimate reasons but not be able to pass the test.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
http://www.iienetwork.org/?p=Ross
How has technology changed our society?
Technology has changed our society in many ways, some good some bad. It has made the world much lazier, for instance we don’t do much hand written work compared to back when there wasn’t computers. Also many people enjoy themselfs on the computer, when back 20 years ago many would have preferred to go out and play sport. I think this is contributing to Australia being the fattest country in the world and the growing problem of childhood obesity. Although there are many cons to the technology improvements, it makes communication around the world much easier, and the internet itself is a great resource for anything, including school work. Also it makes working easier, by companies buying robots to do humans jobs, resulting in cheap work, But some people losing jobs. It is also very bad because iPods can cause deafness if they are too loud for too long. One of the worst problems about technology is that its making people become more antisocial and people don’t like to do stuff in real life, they prefer to do it on the computer.
http://au.pfinance.yahoo.com/special-features/fattest_countries/index.html
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/obesity.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8815826/
What determines popular music?
Popular music is mainly determined by many things, I believe its determined by the American market mostly. America determines what is popular in our market because there is hardly ever Australian music in the top 40 hits. Also Myspace music is excellent for helping music artists get popular and on the main site it has the most popular songs played on it. Some people also assume because its widely listened to its good so they buy it, this makes it grow and become more popular, kind of like a cycle. Most of the time popular music isn’t really decent music so I don’t think that being popular music has much to do about skill, its mainly about how it is marketed and if the artist is popular.
http://www.take40.com/home
http://www.myspace.com/
