why do the younge people of today get labled as rude?

Question

I find the most rude people are actually middle aged or elderly what r ur views on this

I can not vouch for the U S A but where i live i find that the majority of younge people are polite in groups they can be cocky and loud but they are normaly well behaved older people seem to think the whole world owes them a great debt only today i was in the supermarket when a woman late 50s told me to move out of the way of the freezer i know young people are rude but the people i know have a great respect for elders and just wish we could have some back

i think leejay totaly mis read my question the arguments he is using are what i am saying please read all the question

Answer 1

This is a generalisation and not all youngsters are rude. We now live in a world where there is fierce competition in all areas of life - including careers, houses..etc.

Young people face conflicts between family life and external forces (such as peers). They are in a constant struggle to reach their goals in life (more than previous generations). This is mainly due to house prices rising, fighting over jobs etc

These youngsters are confused. Its a dog eat dog world and they know this. They face the REALITY of the world and see its not a bed of roses. Good family values are then replaced with negative ones with the pressure they face from the REAL world.

In order to survive in todays hectic and dynamic world, they must compete ..even if this means not considering other peoples feelings..

Life is not as simple as it used to be in the old days

Answer 2

There are rude people of all ages. I agree that older people should lead by example but there are many rude youngsters out there who seem to forget their manners. Take getting onto a crowded bus these days - how many times do youngsters give up a seat ??? If youngsters want to be treated with respect they should give respect first. I cant help but think alot of this has come from the new multi-cultural Britain. Many youngsters wouldnt know what forming a queue or being polite is because they havenet been brought up with it xxx

Answer 3

I think people in general are more rude than they used to be and I think the youngsters of today learn from their elders.

You get kids who were thrown up, rather than brought up and you get grumpy old bags who reckon the world owes them one 'cause they've been alive so long and are concerned that they aren't going to get anything from the government.

Basically there are a lot of people out there with a chip on their shoulder and the kids don't know any better.

It used to really upset me when I was a kid, if grannies crossed the road rather than walk past me and my grungy mates.

Now-a-days I don't look so scary, but I always love winding up the grumpy b*****ds, by being extra nice to them. Sometimes you get a good reaction and it makes my day!

Answer 4

I feel your forgetting the minority of the youth here. Yes there are many idiots out there who are rude and disgraceful, but there are also those who join queues in the post office with their nana, those who are happy to help an elderly lady not only across the road but to her home and refuse the 'tip', those who allow parents with children onto the bus first. There are still youths who have respect for their elders, still do their work and don’t hang around on the streets.

I just feel id put my point forward for the youth who have been brought up correctly.

Answer 5

Every generation of teenagers is "rude" and it was ALWAYS different when "I" was that age.

I have seen many times where a teen or younger child will hold the door at a store, and many of the adults refuse to even say thank you.

I also remember when I was a teen (I was the youngest) I had to wait after work for my sister to come and pick me up at 10:00 at night, she knew what time I got off but made me wait 15-20 minutes every day, one night while waiting outside as my work site was locked up, I was approached by the police wanting to know why I was there.
A few bad teens have ruined it for all.

Answer 6

Young people do seem extremely rude. I get knocked into and almost pushed over by kids sometimes. They look back at me like I should apologize for being in their way!

Young people seem to feel some sense of entitlement that didn't exist when I was a child. I think they are overexposed to rude and crude behavior on television and in computer games and that they believe this behavior is normal instead of an aberration.

I also think that parents do not hold their children accountable for their bad behavior. Its a shame.

Answer 7

There are a small percentage overall who are rude, that goes for all ages, at least from what I have noticed.
Walking into a neighborhood shop recently, on a cold day a bloke, maybe 17 got to the door about the time I did. He waited for me to go in first. I returned the favour by saying, "no, you first."
He smiled and thanked me. A few extra seconds of more to make someone's day was worth it.
Maybe people need to think more in terms of being nice, kind, and considerate. Again, that is for all ages.
--That Cheeky Lad

Answer 8

I think it is because we are different than them. We live a different lifestyle.

We probably have more than they did; so they just label us off as spoiled. They think that we are too young to understand anything they are talking about. They also just think we're dumb. They think that since we're young we have to be stupid. Until we are about 30, they probably won't respect us.

When I go to the nursing home to visit my great grandmother the people there are just mean. They always make comments to me about stuff like wearing a hat inside and stuff like that. So i'll take it off and they'll just say i am just a kid trying to please them. My cousin also had a necklace and some earrings she got for christmas that were fairly expensive; and they actually said to herthat she was a spoiled brat. (she is only 10 years old)

Most of them spend so much time thinking of how rude we are that they end up as coming off as rude to us.

And i'm not saying all elderly people are like this, but more than half of them I know are.

I hope this answers your question!

Answer 9

I do think a lot of younger people have a lot less respect for everyone around them but there are also a lot of very rude older people who I would not expect it from.

To be honest just about everyone is a little ruder nowadays, the whole world has turned a bit crap

Answer 10

I think rudeness is all around us, but personally the incidents of rudeness that I have witnessed recently have ALL been on the part of the elderly...

While i in no way wish to disparage the gentle majority of our aged folk, there are some old b*stards out there who clearly think that getting your bus pass gives you carte blanche to be quite astonishingly rude to anyone born since 1945.

Strangely enough, most of them seem to hang out on the Nottingham bus network, harassing beleaguered commuters such as myself...