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Roles of Youth in our Society

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Roles of  Youth in our Society

A society is a group of people involved with each other through persistent relation or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutes, a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences a larger society often evinces stratification or dominant patterns in subgroup.

In so far as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would not otherwise be possible on an individual basis; both individual and social (common) benefits can thus be distinguished, or in many cases found to overlap. A society can also consist of like-minded people governed by their own norms and values within a dominant, larger society. This is sometimes referred to as a subculture, a term used extensively in criminology.

More broadly a society may consist or be illustrated as an economic, social or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied collection of individuals. Members of a society may be from different ethnic groups. A society can be a particular ethnic group, such as the Saxons a nation state; such as Afghanistan or broader culture group such as Western society. The word society may also refer to an organized voluntary association for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. A "society" may even, though more by means of metaphor refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any operative aggregate, such as, for example in some of artificial intelligence. The Afghan society consists of many nationalities living together in a harmonious, peaceful and far from prejudice and hatreds.

In a society different strata and groups of people live; such as young, old, rich and poor; the most important and significant proxy of a society which plays a decisive role is the youth and fresh generation of that society. If we analyze the role and duty in a society we can say as; youth are back bone to the nation. They can change the future of the society with their well being and courageous behavior. They are here to show us what we have not been willing to look at within ourselves. Unfortunately today we find the youth who are more interested in other places which are not useful to them as well as nation. They choose to spend their days doing drugs and playing video games. They spend their nights partying and living it up, so to speak. More and more young men of this age group are sitting at home in front of their televisions playing games all day instead of bettering themselves or going to work. They have no vision and if they do have dreams they do not have the drive to make any attempt at achieving them.

We must get control of this. We must motivate our youth. We must teach responsibility and goal setting. I fear if we do not, we will soon be supporting an entire generation of homeless and needlessly on welfare families. Things have to change, with our schools, with the older generation being good role models, with the older generation being mentors, and with the youth who are right now doing nothing. Those of you who are in their teen age, you have a choice. You can allow yourselves to stay your course and do nothing or you can rise above what the cynics around you expect and go get educated or get jobs. Show the older generation that they are wrong about you. Let them know you have intelligence and skills. Show yourself what you are made of. You might be surprised at how proud of yourself you become with even the smallest of accomplishments. I can tell you that nothing can happen if you do not try.

I am very unfortunate to say that our young generation in our society they are not up to the challenge to face the music and make themselves ready for every obstacle to face and tackle the problems, crises and critical circumstances of today’s challenges. It is on us to save the future and be the hope of the country because in the current era which we live there is a dire need of improvement and achievement. The world goes in such velocity that we Afghan people even cannot think of it. Let’s be a role model for the society so that individual of the society makes us their role model in their every aspect of their lives. To get rid of the ongoing problems and overcome the obstacles we have to voluntarily participate in the social; cultural and political activities in the country. Key role of youth in society is to renew, refresh & maintain a civilization.

Zainab Ahmadi is an emerging writer of Daily Outlook. She can be reached at: zainab_ktz09@yahoo.com

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