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| COM 125- Introduction to the Internet |
This week we learnt about the internet and the politics. The main area that i would be covering in my post would be about youths apathetic towards the politics. Well i think there are a few reasons behind this. Firstly, most youth are not interested in politics and that given the immaturity age, most of the youth would be talking about games rather than politics. Even if there is to be one youth or a small group of youths, who are really into politics, to prevent himself/herself from being placed in the outgroup of a group, he/she would typically talk about topics that is norm to the youth (i.e games). As time goes by, their interest toward politics would be diminished and their area of interest would shift to what is in the group norm (games). Secondly, most of the youth, at their given age, would be ineligible to vote for the politician/party that they like. Given that you are not invovlved in something, one would not even bother listening what the politican/party has to say. This is because you know that you heard what the politician/party has to say, but yet you are powerless to support any of the party. Its like, at the end of the day, redudant and waste of time to get yourself involved in the politics as it is something beyond your control. Thus as times goes by, even if one is interested, the interest would be diminished yet again. On the other hand, adults have the power to vote, to them, it is important as a vote makes a different. Furthermore, it in a way, affected the adults, as whenever there is to be an election, there might be new policies brought up by the different politician running the campagin, that might make a different for these adults. The policies could include like example (No Sat job) or any other form of policy, so if the adult is interested in the policies that that particular politician is implementing if he/she gets elected, the adult would vote for that particular politician. So to simply sum this up, it just means that politics affects the adult in a way or another, so most of the adults tend to get involved, while, it means little or none to the youth, and thats why they tend not to be bothered by it. Finally, in my opinion, politics is something that is not easy to comprehen. Given the ability of a youth, they might lack the knowledge and may not be able to understand what the politician is talking and what the politician has to offer if he/she gets the vote. On the other hands, by adult age, most adults would have no diffculties comprehening such message, and this is also one reason, in my opinion that the minimum age for voting is 21years old. Given all these different reasons, it is no wonder that youths tend to be apathetic towards politics. On a side note, my nation's election is occuring somewhere in April this year, and at age 22 this year, i wasnt even called up to go for the election. I only realized that my nation's election is in April when they sent a letter to one of my family member to go for the voting on one of the days in April. Frankly speaking, i cant be bothered by it, as i feel that whatever the case is-whoever the winner is (president), it wouldnt affect me in a way or another. Thus, for me, probably i would be like the youth, being indifferent to politics, perhaphs, things will change when i get older. ~me~ at 3:57 PM | |
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