When did young kids become experts on foreign and domestic policy?

Question

All they do is text message on their cell phones and listen to their iPods, but all of the sudden they are experts on how the country should be run. Most of you guys live such sheltered lives that you have never even left you own state--much less left the country--and in your naive, inexperienced, immature, perspectives, you feel entitled to judge other people for trying to make a better life for themselves (like immigrants who risk their lives to work in this country), despite the judgemental fingers of upity teenagers! And then you PRETEND as though the only reason you have a problem is because they immigrated illegally--and then use that as an excuse to label them blanketly as criminals?

Asking questions on Yahoo! is a type of ethnographic research methodology--grounded in rhetorical theory. But perhaps I shouldn't use such big words when people like Richard G are around.

I do research on these kinds of social issues for a living! Wow, we really are in an anti-intellectual milleu right now.

Answer 1

Wow someone smart noticing things that I do. Large words tend to confuse the young because of their "chat-speak" on their cell phones and ipods. They are nothing more than self proclaimed experts. As the years pass, young teens get far more dumb because everything is given to them on a silver platter. All parents want to give their child a better life than they had. People who were taught to speak only when spoken to as a child started just spanking. The people who were spanked resorted to scolding their child. Now if you talk to them the wrong way, those who were scolded thing this will psychologically damage the child into being a serial killer. Pretty much children are given too many choices and power at too early an age. Therefore by the time they reach high school they "know" they are far better suited for running a country rather than someone who had clawed their way up the political ladder. Trust me, I maybe only 23 but I am just as frustriaghted with these teen know-it-all's as much as you.

Just keep typing with correct spelling, grammar and words containing more than 4 letters and they will find it hard to come up with an arguable come back.

Answer 2

Hi... I am an "older than a teenager" that has recently been doing her best to learn about immigration and the fuss in Washington right now. I fear that many teens are simply not exposed to the information they need to make moral decisions. I say that because I feel like I MYSELF have had to do an awful lot of digging to find information that presents all of the perspectives on the issues. And I have been around long enough to know not to believe something just because I read it. I am wondering... do you have any ideas about effective ways to reach America's youth with information (to combat the... ignorance... I guess)? I appreciate your question, because it's occurred to me, but I feel a responsibility to help people understand. What do you think?

Answer 3

Thank you so much for blanketing all young people everywhere with a stereotype--while yelling at us for stereotyping! It's simply lovely to see a judgemental hypocrite.

Answer: Because we are not sheep. You're correct, appreciating music must mean you have no idea what's going on in the world. Because I'm sure by YOUR intelligent monolouge, you've never ever listened to music. And as far as texting (an activity in which I have never even dabbled), you've caught us young hoolagins again. Sending messages in words--shocking! Obviously because we wrote words on a cell phone, we don't know what's going on around us.

We became AWARE of foreign and domestic policy by reading updates on our cellphones from newspapers, reading the actual paper newspaper, or listening to the news on the radio. The nerve of us, paying attention to the world around us! And forming our own opinons! It would be much better if we just turned into adults without having any ideas or thoughts on the world around us.

Answer 4

Just because I text message on my cell phone and listen to my ipod doesnt mean I dont know about foreign and domestic policy. I have lived in different countries and states. I currently live in California, but I used to live in Oklahoma and Alaska. I've been to China, Mexico, and Canada before. Along with my parents, I personally am an immigrant. I wasn't born here in the United States. I see what it is like in China; I still have relatives there. Dont think that JUST becuase I'm a teenager that I dont have opinions.

Yes, I do have problems with Illegals. My parents and I came here legally and I see what better opportunities we have. They are breaking the law and therefore they are criminals.

Answer 5

You're back again?

Some of us who are clearly against illegal immigration due to its impacts on our children's schools and future opportunities are not 'young kids'.

What on earth makes you think YOU are an expert on foreign and domestic policy?

Sophist, if you research these issues for a living, you are either very bad at it or are ignoring facts you already know. And how does baiting people inform your topic? Or is that part of your dissertation?

If you really were an intellectual, as you try to portray yourself, you would know there are always many sides to an issue, and that your side is only inherently 'right' to people who think as you do.

Answer 6

well.......we've become experts because the adults of this country don't care and so we actually are the experts now because the average american adult has too much debt to think about foreign policy and immigration. But you shouldn't judge all of us based on a few uneducated people and I agree with your viewpoint and would love to joint-rant about our mutual disagreement about the immigration system.

Answer 7

I so agree and was quite pleased with your message. Today's children are more than spoiled. Give them 1 week to live in a 3rd world country and they will call their parents to come pick them up and they will tell them to bring a bus so they bring their new starving friends home with them

Answer 8

Not all of such thinkers are teens. You'd be surprised to see that quite a few of them are fully grown adults.

Answer 9

Sad to say, there are some who are grown adults who believe this way.....With this sense of entitlement...Its just so much easier to blame someone else for everything, instead of taking personal responsibility...

Answer 10

And all YOU do is get on Y Answers and support ILLEGALS!!!
What happened to your "I do research every available second"?
Getting on here and putting down the U.S isn't very valuable to anyone....