From the prehistotic days, the old are always complaining about young people, saying that the young are not helping their communities. However, I am strongly against with this long myth and firmly believe that young people are doing their best to support communities. Only change is thier way of supporting communties.
First of all, current young generations are a lot more focused on being successful in the modern society than older generations. However, they contribute to the society by achieving their own success. In other words, by focusing on achievement in their own fields of interest, young generations do something to the society. For example, one of my cousin was devoted so much about creating online movie, he was not care about familty activiteis, which made many older family members complained about him, complaining that "he only cares himself." However, as time goes on, he was able to be one of the most famous movie director in Korea and, thus now he is able to support not just family members in difficulties, but also significantly contributes the improvement and advancement of Korean movie culture. In other words, he contributes to family and Korean society by focusing his own instrest.
In addtion, many young people help thier community by joining formal associations. In old days, direct help was more common way of helping other; people helped other who are neighbors or someone they know very well. Thus it was easy to find that young people are helping their society. However, since indirect help becomes more common in these days, it become more and more difficulty for old generations to observe that young people are helping their society. For example some of my friends are continously supporting children in Africa. They keep sending money, some shool products, medicine and other products that will be very useful for children living in the other side of the world. However, since they keep hiding this, there is no way for tthe old generation to know young generations are supporting their society.
To sum up, I strongly believe that your generation are keeping helping thier societies by focusing on their fields of instersts and by participating formal associations. Even in this fast changing and challanging world, there are a lot of young people who have warm hearts and the world is still a good place to live. |