How Bad Are British Youth?
The vision of Britain as a teenage wasteland full of drunk and disaffected kids is as old as the notion of modern youth culture itself. Moreover, in times like these – coloured by high unemployment, rising tuition costs, cuts to social welfare and a steadily declining marriage rate (resulting in an increase of single-parent families) – it seems a no-brainer that the youth of today would be doing what bored, broke, idle kids are famed for doing best: getting wasted and raising hell.
Read more in Access to English: Social Studies, pp. 251-253. Then do the tasks in the textbook and on this website.
Going Further
Web resources
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Is the teen rebel a dying breed? (BBC News - Mark Easton)
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Should we despair at the kids of today? (BBC News - Mark Easton)
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British youths are 'the most unpleasant and violent in the world'
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Youth subcultures: what are they now? (Guardian)
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UK Youth Parliament
(byc.org. uk)