American children are also full of energy and confidence, ready to go out and make their own way in the world.
What's yout idea of a typical American teenager? A rich kid with his own car? A girl whose parents let her do anything she likes? A drug addict?
Well, maybe you have been watching too much television youtself. Most teenagers do not have enought money to their own car. Drugs, are a serious problem, but the truth is that fewer and fewer young Americans are trying them.
Typical American teenagers are in facy vary ordinary. They think their teachers make them work too hard, they love their parents but are sure they don't understand anything, and their friendships are the most important things in their lives. Some of them do have a lot of money to spend, but usually they have earned in themselves. Most young people take jobs while they are in the school. They work at movie theaters, fast-food restaurants, gas stations, etc.
"America, in a country of young men" wrote Emerson.
That's not quite true anymore. The population is growing older.
Young people today are having to fight harder to get the kinds of jobs and homes they want.
Also, they consider public transportation the best option for digital
socializing and one of the most likely ways to connect with the
communities they live in.
Today the use of social media is probably the biggest factor behind the myth
that young people don’t care about privacy. It is true that young people
use social media more. It’s also true that social media can have
negative effects on one’s privacy. Much of this is due to the ways that
social media confuse our privacy intuitions, for example by giving us
the feeling we are communicating with a small set of people, even when
we know intellectually that we are being followed by a much larger
circle.
