Asia's new generation of youth share many common traits across different cities and backgrounds. They frequent places like malls, bars, and concerts. They dress in colorful or dark clothing with logos. The media has a strong influence on their values and behavior. Peer influence is also significant. While their pursuits may seem trivial, they are generally innocent in nature. However, in some countries the youth show less respect for traditions and more risk-taking behaviors, which some see as linked to exposure to Western media.
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Asia's new generation of youth share many common traits across different cities and backgrounds. They frequent places like malls, bars, and concerts. They dress in colorful or dark clothing with logos. The media has a strong influence on their values and behavior. Peer influence is also significant. While their pursuits may seem trivial, they are generally innocent in nature. However, in some countries the youth show less respect for traditions and more risk-taking behaviors, which some see as linked to exposure to Western media.
Asia's new generation of youth share many common traits across different cities and backgrounds. They frequent places like malls, bars, and concerts. They dress in colorful or dark clothing with logos. The media has a strong influence on their values and behavior. Peer influence is also significant. While their pursuits may seem trivial, they are generally innocent in nature. However, in some countries the youth show less respect for traditions and more risk-taking behaviors, which some see as linked to exposure to Western media.
the media. Directions: In this test you will read several d. The values of the new generation have been passages. Answer all the questions that follow by modified by modernization. encircling the correct answer. 12. When the author said that Asian youth are Passage B avant-garde, it means that they Asia’s new generation of kids has more than just a. are behind the times c. are promiscuous youth in common. Whether in Manila, Hongkong, and stubborn Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta or Tokyo, b. have old-fashionedthoughts d. practice new whether rich or poor, urban or rural, delinquent or and experimental ideas not, Asia’s youngsters share many things. They go to schools, sing-along bars, fast food outlets, rock 13. What conclusion can be drawn out of the concert and rallies. They are dressed in wild passage? costumes of screaming colors or black, leather a. Peers are just companions, they don’t influence jackets, outsize t-shirts and candy-colored others. sneakers. b. Print and broadcast media have a great influence In Manila, they are particularly called “bagets”. on the youth. Their pursuits, though seemingly inane are c. Discipline at home has nothing to do with the innocent – singing-along with the gang at the malls, character of the youth today. sharing cheeseburgers and sodas or cruising the d. Character is hereditary, the environment has commercial center of Cubao and Makati. nothing to do with what was become of the youth In Bangkok, they will wander about the Siam today. Shopping Center, in Singapore, in the shopping complexes of Orchard Road. They are kids of Asia’s 14. If the youth are exposed to too much western great cities, avant-garde, rebellious, modernized. television they will likely They are exposed to imported television that usher a. Develop foreign values and forget traditional ones. in international values. b. Become complacent and indifferent. In Hongkong, the kids have been described as c. Become aggressive and violent. precocious, world-wise, and materialistic, governed d. Develop an independent mind. less by teachers and parents than by the omnipresent television. Peer group influence is 15. What literary technique was used by the author great. Their trademarks are smoking, foul language, in writing the selection? bizarre and attention-getting appearance, and rude a. Comparing b. Describing c. mannerisms. Making profile d. Narrating events In Japan, they look like different race to the old generation. There is rising drug abuse, sexual freedom, crime and homosexuality among the youth. There’s less respect given to parents and to the aged.
QUESTIONS: 9. The passage is about Asia’s a. lost generation c. urbanized society b. delinquent youth d. new generation of youth
10. It can be inferred from the passage that Asia’s
youth a. have senseless pursuits c. have been influenced by western culture b. share many common goals d. have varied dreams and ambitions
11. What is worth observing and good about the
youth beneath the modern image and westernized lifestyle? a. The youth are still the easy-go-lucky type. b. Many of them still believe in traditional values.