Why are the Youth of Today so Anti Older People?

Question

Having just read an ignorant tirade from a Northern Youth and a couple of others. What is bugging them? Are they taught no manners or respect for their elders? Did they not have Grandparents who cared for them, and taught them many wise things? To me they must come from disfunctional families not to respect their elders. And they obviously hadn't read my post properly, I wasn't asking for hand outs - I'd paid into the system in taxes & N.I. for forty years - probably keeping their elderly relatives or work shy families in that time. But all I have got from this present incompetent government is taxes, taxes & more taxes. I worked 3 jobs & paid tax on them all - to buy my own home - now I lay awake at night worrying how to pay my council tax. For the Northern Lad who thinks money was spent on booze - I assure you I worked too hard to get a better life than to indulge in stupid drink.
And I am so proud my antecedents were in the military. It taught us backbone, pride in ourselves etc.

Answer 1

They're just jealous cos we have more fun

Answer 2

I have to agree with what you say though by the same token thankfully there're not all tarred with the same brush.

I think the breakdown of the family unit is partly to blame and also the need for mothers to work. It has left a disjointed feel to the extended family, as even older members of the same families these days arte not respected.

It is not that older people want be pampered just given the time of day and shown some consideration that any other person would expect.

No It's shove the older ones under the carpet and forget them I fear, as long as you pay your taxes and dues that's okay.

Also If you own your own home you are definitley penalised by this government. Others who don't own their own homes and who have often squandered their money on luxuries that the home owner would not be able to afford.

However, when it comes to getting help in old age it's those that have squandered that get the help and the other poor old buggers have to make the most of a bad job.


How did I get on this rant.

OMG. Say it as you see it I think.

Answer 3

I blame the human rights lot, a good clip round the ear never did my generation any harm. We had discipline at home and at school. We were taught to respect our elders, youngsters are able to be horrid to everyone as the laws let them, wish we could go back to the old ways, todays youth wouldn't half get a fright when they realised that people can and would stand up to them and the local bobby could give them a swift boot up the backside. Ahhh happy days. But having said that, not all of the young ones are like it.

Answer 4

Why are older people so anti youth? You hear a lot more old people complaining about young people than the other way around. I think young people get frustrated by older people mostly. I've got a lovely old nan who's got some great stories about the war and all that, but she still irritates me sometimes being so stuck in her ways and prejudice. I do think there should be a better benefit system for older people who have paid taxes for years, but it does wind me up listening to the olduns nagging on about the state of modern society, when it clearly has never really been any better. They do love to point to a golden age that never existed. My rasist old nan reckons there were no stabbings before the Carribeans came to England; I like to point out to her that the writer Marlow was famously stabbed in a pub brawl during the Reformation!! That's hardly a modern issue.

Answer 5

Playing Devils Advocate here so don't bite my head off.
Respect goes both ways you know, and i am personally sick to the back teeth of being patronised by older people who seem to think that the decade or so they have on me renders all my opinion null and void. Oh yes i used to think that or when you get to my age etc.
I to was brought up to respect my elders so like a good girl i keep my mouth shut and silently fume and develop ulcers.
People these days are so often criticised for being disrespectful but are probably in fact just standing up for themselves.
Just because you are older does not necessarily mean you are better and if you are behaving like a patronising old a"se wipe perhaps it is long past time someone told you so!!!
By the way im nearly 30.

Answer 6

The clues are in your own words. Ignorant, no manners, no respect, disfunctional families, work shy families - you are making so many judgements, assumptions and sweeping generalisations - why do you expect respect when you give none. Respect is something which is won it is not a right. And grandparents are not wise by definition - wisdom is something which is sought, you do not become wise just by becoming old. Treat people with respect and they will usually return it.

Answer 7

Because they have NO respect for anyone. It depresses me, because although I was a normal teenager, I never acted the way some young people do today. I had respect for authority (Teachers, Police etc) and respect for my elders. Unfortunately, I think what it comes down to is the way they are brought up these days, as much as I hate saying it: blame the parents.

Answer 8

Because so many older people have a lack of respect. For you to say the younger generation is all a bunch of partying disrespectful jerks is far from the truth. I'm a 19 year old college student who works in retail and I have customers twice my age with the maturity level of a toddler. Very few older people show any respect to younger people, especially when it comes to food service and retail, been there experienced that. There are youth with manners; when I'm working they usually hand me the change while these older types either leave it on the counter or throw/fling it, and don't even say thank you as they leave. You are just stereotyping today's youth. We're not all that bad....

Answer 9

appears like somebody has been brainwashed. There are plenty extra drug overdose deaths on the instant than there have been during the 60s. ladies are nonetheless being brutalized and objectified. you're making it sound as though the 60s bands have been to blame for those issues. Ever hear to rap? Open your eyes. enable's end villifying the 60s and tell human beings the reality, era.

Answer 10

I have been raised to always respect my elders, they obviously have no home training, these are the same poor soles that will send their parents to the nursing home! that is unnacceptable in my family.

but dont worry, years later they will be worst off when they get older if they keep with the atitude

Answer 11

this is what we call the price for modernism. values changes along with development. traditional values are often considered old and so not up to date. but if a person look deep enough, one can see that these values are the essence that keeps a society intact. with today's values, i am not sure how long man's civilisation gonna last.