Youth Discrimination preventing the decrease of world-suck?

So I'm kind of new here, so I don't know if I should be spontaneously starting one of these, but I'm curious.

I find one of the things that is often holding me (and a lot of my friends) back from working to decrease world suck is youth discrimination. Right now it's a big problem in my community... we're in need of some kind of youth center, anything at all (we've mentioned skate parks, to helping expand the Art Gallery for new classes)... and any suggestion keeps getting shut down by our local government (to the point where they're trying to give our brand new art gallery away to someone else!). If we try to start any sort of campaign up to raise money for causes in Hati or Africa or Japan, we're completely ignored by the adult population in our community. Many people view us as infidels that need to be restrained. (this was actually said by someone when we tried to push for a skate park)

What I'm wondering is how much youth discrimination impacts your life, if at all, and how it prevents you from decreasing world suck?

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Permalink Reply by Kathryn Langlois on July 3, 2011 at 3:27pm

youth discrimination is because of the way adolts are raising the youth, they are eitherafraid that we were raised right so we have a mind and a voice and we have common scence and can outsmartthem, or becaused they raised the youth wrong! teaching us to not have avoice or opinion or a mind, so there fore they are scard and unshur of us being smarter than them, and taking over or being to stupid to see the hole picture.

Permalink Reply by Amanda was here on July 3, 2011 at 8:21pm

Totally agree. How can they teach us right from wrong if we can't even raise our voice?

Permalink Reply by Kathryn Langlois on July 3, 2011 at 8:22pm

if we cant make mistakes for ourselves! how are we to learn!

Permalink Reply by Delaney on July 18, 2011 at 2:34pm

Good point. My mom is most likely afraid I will outsmart her. Like if I say some random fact my mom will go on the internet and see if I'm right. If I am she will just say, "Wow. Your smart." then drop the subject. But if I was wrong then she will gloat like a little kid, and the thing is I never gloat when I'm right.

Permalink Reply by Yasmin on July 4, 2011 at 1:19pm

I tried to volenteer in a local charity shop a while ago but they wouldn't let me because I'm too young.

Permalink Reply by Amanda was here on July 4, 2011 at 10:44pm

Don't be discouraged! Continue to try to volunteer in other places!

But I feel your pain. It's happened to me before too.

Permalink Reply by Ali M on July 4, 2011 at 1:50pm

Where I live, the job economy is terrible, so it's hard for teens to get jobs. Employers would rather hire an out of work adult than a young kid who's still high school and has no experience. I think this is completely idiotic. I get why they want to hire older people, but if they don't hire younger people, those younger people will never have a chance to get experience and to grow up. Some of them won't be able to go to college and get a proper education. People don't think about that. We're the future and all they do is try and kick us down.

Also, I agree with Kathryn. Adults want us to think like they do instead of come up with new ideas and new ways of doing things.

Permalink Reply by Amanda was here on July 4, 2011 at 10:47pm

In that case I can see where they're coming from since the older population is the one that has to bring home the bread for the younger population...

However, it's unfair that youth are kept from gaining work experience just because of that.

Have you tried volunteering? I hear that extensive volunteer experience is just as good as work experience. (though it is nice to have money. XD) Though you may again face the same problem.

Permalink Reply by Ali M on July 5, 2011 at 7:50pm

Yeah, I volunteer. Honestly, I don't have a problem with this. I don't have a job yet, but I've been told I have a good chance at getting one at the place I volunteer at. But I do know a lot of people who've had this problem and don't think it's fair.

Permalink Reply by Amanda was here on July 5, 2011 at 7:56pm

I wish you best of luck with your attaining of tasks that make you money. XD

Permalink Reply by Gnome on July 17, 2011 at 8:48pm

It's really hilarious, the way they want us to think just like they did. Every generation of youth seems to rebel against the older generation. It's really annoying because they act as though our trying to grow and be different and better is different than when they were trying to change their community to be different and better.

Permalink Reply by Amanda was here on July 5, 2011 at 7:58pm

NEW TOPIC!!!!!

Is Youth Discrimination a world-suck problem that we should deal with? (you know, as youth... XD) I know it's not the biggest problem in the world, but it seems to definitely be a problem!