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Who Am I Really?
"There needs to be some positive role model or someone to tell our young people the truth that they are the future, they can make a difference, make changes."
By James Lee
Young people rely on the media not only as a source of information but also as a resource for developing their individually identities. Youth Radio’s James Lee contemplates the impact this influence may have on his generation.
Who am I really? That is the question facing young people today. Young people ask themselves this question everyday. They try to seek and find the answer to this puzzling question.
The main source young people turn to for answers is the media. The media is a powerful weapon, it has manipulated and controlled what people do for years. The weapon known as the media is targeting the minds of young people by showing them images of things that the media wants the young people to want. Such as money and fame and showing them ways of going about doing it which are unlikely such as a rapper, singer, entertainer, or athlete. The media promotes to young people that these are their only alternatives, but the truth is they are not.
If this is all they see and hear all day, everyday it is hard to try to convince them otherwise. The media is controlled by the people in power, they have the money to make things happen so whatever they can do to make more money they are going to do, even if it means telling the young people through T.V. and radio indirectly that aren’t anything unless they have this or they aren’t anything unless they do this way.
If you ask me, that’s not cool. There needs to be some positive role model or someone to tell our young people the truth that they are the future, they can make a difference, make changes. Someone to tell them the truth that they are beings of unlimited potential and infinite greatness, and they can do anything, go to college and be whoever they want to be.
Someone to tell them they don’t have to limit themselves to only being a rapper, singer, entertainer, or athlete and the world is theirs. So that’s my answer to the question that young people ask themselves everyday. My suggestion is to turn off the T.V. and pick up a book, read something, learn something, and teach.
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