yes the youth of today do get a bad rep, and there's not much to be done about that, at least on a large scale. This is because, as several of you have said, of bad parenting skills. It's not video games, or music, or even the television; it's the parents who don't monitor what thier kids watch or listen to. For instance, a Northern Illinois University was shot up by a student recently. he was a sociology student, and had been unstable in the past. A few days after he decided to go off of his psych meds, he went on his rampage. That night on the news, the only reason given any credibility for the rampage was that he played too many video games. If he had been required to go back on his meds, the incident likely wouldn't have happened.

I too have noticed that nearly all of the kids around here either want to be "emo" or "gangsta". This is a horrible thing, since the stereotypes in and of themselves are negative. merely dressing like them, without acting like it, is just as bad because you're automatically associating yourself with that trend.


The real way to combat the whole bad rep thing? Go out of your way to do nice things for people, be helpful, active, a hard-worker. Make yourself known as a good person, and eventually you will earn some respect and to hell with the generation of thugs and emos.


Most of that was probably off topic, but it makes sense to me.

Regards,
Benny lava