06/10/96
As a teenage girl
in Cairo, Egypt is locked away in her home, studying madly for a upcoming high
school exam. A teenage boy rushes down the fields of Brazil handling a soccer
ball and his future. Another teenage boy in Rajasthan, dessert in Northwestern
India is guided seven times around a sacred fire as a custom to cultural
marriages. Some teenage experiences are different and some are the same. These
are the factors that could affect the teen's culture, geography, goals and
parents expectations. By reading this essay you can interrupt different and
same teen experiences. Also you maybe able to understand other teens around the
world better by learning of their experiences in life.
Different teenage
cultures will affect them differently. In some parts of India culture is law
and you must respect that if you leave in those regions. "Tradition is law in most
villages." (Small wedding, 1996)
This quote is reference to my argument. In Bajasthan dessert in Northwestern
India, boys are married at 10 to girls at the age of 7. These arranged marriage ceremonies are a
custom to their culture. When they reach their teenage years they may not have
mush education and not a lot of hope of reaching their highest goals. This may
happen because they will be confide to their marriage and paying respect to
their elders. This boy experiences traditional culture and the other culture is
modern. Modern culture incorporated with economy has made child marriage
irrelevant to those who have the background of modern culture.
Teenage boys in
Brazil are customed to soccer because of their geography. Boys here will not be
worrying about marriage until they are in their 30's. They will be more
concerned about getting to every young Brazilian's teenage fantasy, being a
soccer star with fame and fortune. Soccer is very important in Brazil to
everyone and mostly to all teenage soccer players. " Sports are important
in Brazil, especially soccer." (Turning 16, 1991) This quote was in the video recording of
Turning 16 which shows that the geography of Brazil is based on soccer. Most soccer players will not reach their
highest goal of becoming a professional soccer player but those who are in
strict organizations will have an education to fall back onto. Those teens that do become a professional
soccer player will live their life of marriage and kids after they finish
playing soccer. This experience and the
early marriage experience are totally different because one teen lives in a
closed area of tradition and the other lives a life of fame and world
recognition. Also one teen will
experience marriage early and the other will not experience marriage until his
dreams of being a soccer player is over.
All teenagers
have goals in life from reaching fame, to being a star or achieving high marks
in school. A teenage girl named Aman lives in Cairo, Egypt studying long hours
at home preparing for upcoming exams at her high school. Exams are very important to her and the rest
of her classmates in her school. "There is a obsession to pass high school
in Cairo, Egypt." (Turning 16, 1991)
This quote explains why most teenage students study long hours and
sometimes not let out of the house. An
experience that all teenagers go through
is that they have goals in life. The boy who lived in India might have had the
goal of reaching the point of his marriage.
Teenage boys in Brazil have the dream of becoming a professional soccer
player. Aman has the dream of scoring high in her studies and getting into a
good university or college. All of these
teenagers have hopes and goals for their future. Also teens have a common experience of having
parental expectations. Teens have parental expectations because all parent's
teens want there kids to have a happy
future and a prosperous life. The parents of the boy who lived in India might
have had the expectation of having their son becoming married and living
happily with his new spouse. The parents
of the Brazilian teenage soccer players may have wanted their son/daughter to
reach professional soccer playing. So
that when the son/daughter reaches high wages in pro- soccer he can come back
and support his own family money wise.
Aman's parents would have wanted her to reach high grades and get into university. Then from university get
married and if necessary a job that requires education. These teens may not have the same parental
expectation but parental expectation is among what they experience.
After reading the
following, you may have a good idea of how culture, geography and expectations
affect teenage experiences. There were
three different standardize of teens that were introduced into your understanding of pubescent experiences.
By understanding more about teens. You could have a larger insight on adolescents.
Some teens are different and some are the same. So that means that we
all experience some things together and
some different out of our control. So when you read articles about other teens
around the world maybe you should stop and think before you say to yourself
gross, ewe, freaks and other miscellaneous comments about what they must go
through and their goals. Because maybe they will read a article about Canadians
and they will say the same. Gross, ewe,
freaks.............. ...gratifying, interesting ,insight.
Andrew, Cindy.
1996 " A small wedding" The Globe and Mail. 1 June, 1996.
" Cairo,
Egypt." 1991. Turning 16. Videotape. Toronto: YTV
"Brazil."
1991. Turning 16. Videotape. Toronto: YTV
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