Teenagers losing their own cultures and families values are the new phenomenon. For examples… their view on sex, family values, values of money and heavy metal music, rap song that promote violence’s and etc…
All the above mentions are influences from the Western or America cultures. Teenagers’ spending money without control… buying expensive hand phone, branded attire, spending hundred dollars on their hand phone bills (all these are hard earn money from the parents), straying around at the streets or shopping center after schools and not respect the elder’s and the lists will go on and on…
After WWII, Asians or we are slowly accepting the influences of the Western or America culture. We benefits from these move, our living standard are improving. More and more people have education and enjoy economics growth and most of the basic needs are able to fulfill but not so luxuries.
Family values are taught by the parents and the children were more obedience and accept the traditional culture at the same time observe the changes or influences by the Western or America culture. Women are having the equal right as men. (Women movement claims that).
This is the first generation that benefits from the changes and the second generations were growing up in these environments.
When the second generation came to join the work forces and form their own families. Some of the traditional values are still able to maintain and the third generation are growing up in these era trend to losing their traditional values more and more. This is because live changes Western or America culture eroding the traditional culture. Some even think the traditional cultures are out dated and never pass down to the next generation. In the third generation, some of them don’t even know how to speak their mother tongue and learn their own language.
Because of Western or America cultures… Teenagers are more rebellious; basically they are misunderstanding the meaning of freedom of the Western or America cultures.
Parents are struggling to bring food back to home and the kids are spending like no body business, disobey the parent guidance’s. Family values are not been taught or pass down from the parent this make the situation worst.
Some of the parent’s think that the school taught this. (Sorry to said that our education system only teaching the children basic education… like sciences, mathematic and general knowledge but family values… I personally think that ministry of education will think that no value added or benefits to the current education system or our economic, the ministry still think that family values should let the parents to lead and guild). [I maybe wrong on this issue]
In the parent’s minds, feel guilty when not enough time to spend with their children and their own childhood were not so luxuries, so they are giving what they can afford to fulfill or compensate their children.
Are we really benefits to accept the Western or America culture or losing more then what we expects?