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Originally Posted by Livia

I don't have such a view of young people, they're smarter than many people give them credit for in my opinion. There are lots of young people on this forum who are very eloquent and think things through to the end. They also generally appreciate the freedoms this country gives them.

I agree Livia, if this forum is anything to go by, then I actually find many of the younger members to be much more open minded than many of the older members. Without naming names. :teehee:

Also my sister in law is 19 and has a wide range of friends, from geeks to "troubled teens" (she's one of their generation of people who all have something like 5000 Facebook "friends"), and I've seen discussions on her Facebook page get quite heated with plenty of differing viewpoints being offered up. I wouldn't call most of them very academic either, just normal kids but all quite clued up, and certainly not all following the crowd or agreeing with each other.

If anything I think young people now, the "internet generation", are much more skeptical and therefore much more resistant to propaganda or being lead by the media or the press than ever before.


I find that I personally occupy a very confusing space somewhere between genX and Y... Flipping and flopping between sparkly eyed idealism and bitter cynicism. Sigh!