Chavs or rude 11 year olds

I was on my bus after a long day of education and there was some of my younger mates who look like emos' or people one sees in Camden, and they were being harassed by some pathetic 11 year old rude boys. the boys were saying things like 'you look like horror twins' (quite pathetic and unoriginal things) the girls told them to shut up and they replied 'You're gay' (wow the inventiveness) this caused many of the older passengers to titter and laugh at their appalling comeback. This made me think what has happened to the youth are they so brain washed into thinking that someones sexuality is a curse that can be used so freely. But we love the variety of young people called the CHAVS because they think they are so god damn tough that nobody will stand up to them and tell them to go and get an attitude make over. Most of the CHAV kind believe that they are so gangster, so scary, unknown to themselves they don't realise we find them amusing and pathetic because at 11 -16 years old you don't know about the world and you don't know any proper gangsters. We should just round up all the CHAVs and send them to meet the Kary's and the Italian Mafia, then ask them if they consider themselves gangster.

A pearl of wisdom

This weekend I went away with my family to the seaside town of Whitstable in Kent. Most of the towns population are parents, OAP's and the just finished uni students. It was not just a family weekend break, but a learning experience. It started with a gig/ concert with a great ska band called the Eskalators and followed by a comic poet called John Hegly. The poet wasn't great as his heart wasn't in the performance and the one liners/ private jokes were lost on us DFL's (Down from London). The band was great, everyone was dancing and me and my mother were 'skanking' away, whilst we were dancing I asked my mother could we go to an event mentioned to us by a family friend called Mothers Old Vinyl's (a disco). We went to the disco and partied away, and it made me think why are the youth so ashamed of their parents, when they can implant some of their wisdom and knowledge to them about music and dance. I really learnt how to really loosen up and physically express myself on the floor with the 'monkey' and 'twist'. It certainly raised a few eyebrows from the villagers.

It is now clear why parents are there other than to look after their charges, they're there to pass on valuable knowledge and wisdom about everything like music and how to dance in a disco using the long forgotten moves of the yesteryear.

Media demonisation of the youth

For this part of the century the media are running a hate campaign on the youth of today, whether they are harmless or 'hoodies'. It is hard to walk down the street in a group without people crossing the road in terrorbecause they will be assulted. Is it any wonder that youths are now comforming to the stereotypes and joining gangs? The police revealed this year that there are over 100 gangs and only 3 of them are all female in london alone. This leads on to the question of what really is a gang: a large group of young people or a small crimminal network? Alongside the fear of us being 'hoodies' we are faced with being called underage parents, bingedrinkers and layabouts. Is it not a small part of the youth population who make the rest of us look the same as them. Yes I like everyone else likes to go out and have a drink, but my friends and I certainly don't go terrorising grannies and robbing shops. There just isn't enough for young people to do, in terms of recreation. Thank god there is places like the Roundhouse and summer university courses to help young people spend their time in a creative and useful way, but the media don't look at these things because they wouldn't have any negative propaganda to feed to the thirsty masses of our elders about us, the youth.

The establishment should be asking what it can do for the youth to stop them from killing each other and drinking themselves beyond a liver transplant. Not showing us pictures of knife wounds, telling us about the damage alcohol and drugs does to you and generalising every young person. They should be teaching us how to drink moderately/not making alcohol a taboo, driving us better to be creative not destructive and embracing the wider youth population and showing what young people are really like, not the minorities who are deprived of attention and think the only way to get it is by killing someone.