While many people keep the believe that the adolescents should live and

behave in a traditional manner, others argue that the youth should be able to
pursue their own lifestyle and behavior. Personally, I tend towards the idea that
the youngsters are free to make their own decisions as individuals.

On the one hand, when young people follow the social traditions, their way of
living and behaving can be more easily accepted by the society.
Specifically, social traditions are the experiences accumulated by the
precursors, which may prove helpful for the juveniles, who lack of
interpersonal skills. To cite an example, when a recent graduate student is
looking for a job, apart from the qualifications, their life skills are looked into
in first place and they also decide whether the junior can assimilate himself to
the environment. Therefore, knowing and exhibiting proper etiquette is
essential with a youngster in the general relationship with the society.

On the other hand, the young generation should be at liberty to hold

responsibility for their own life, which means they are free from any obsolete
belief and freely express themself. By which, the youth feel encouraged to raise
their voice about the millennium’s problems and put forward the solutions that
really work, instead of the conservative ones suggested from a senior’s
perspective. Moreover, the youth nowadays possess great self-confidence and
have a strong desire to display themselves to the world, which hopefully, can
enhance the diversity of the world’s traditions. After all, the future belongs to
the young, and it should be their decision on what makes an ideal world for
them.

To conclude, despite controversial opinions on which way of living and

behaving benefit the youngsters more, I endorse the claim that the choices
should be left to them. As those outdated customs are more of a hindrance to a
juvenile in developing their own selves, the other option shines better by help
them cease the cycle of unsupportive, self-limiting pattern of behavior.