Youth Culture

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Youth Culture
Completed with the help of Dr.collaso, Lavanya
Varadrajan-Teacher mentor and Tania- Peer mentor
social
Media
Music
Tradition
Nightlife
Sari
Dance
Education
Something you learn
Language
Religion
Culture is never lost, but it can be changed
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Aims

• I want to complete a research project on youth
  culture and the effects the media has on it,
  through Bollywood, TV and worldwide media. By
  living with a family and studying at a local
  college for 2 weeks I want to be able to return
  to my hometown in the Lake District and share
  what I have learnt with schools and colleges that
  are very closed minded and culturally unaware.
• I feel that with my time living with a family and
  studying at a college I will be able to find
  social cultures that are different but also, I
  hope to find social cultures that are the same,
  so on my return to England, my research
  presentation will bridge the gap between youth
  from where I live and youth in a different
  country.

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Youth Information

• Out of Indias current 1 billion population,
  there are around 160million teenagers.
• By 2015 it is said that Indians under 20 will
  make up 55 of the population and grow
  proportionately higher spending power.
• Indian youth is described as ambitious,
  technology-oriented, and confident by Business
  week magazine.
• In 1992 Satellite TV was introduced to 50 million
  Indian homes. So I want to find out how much of
  an impact the Media has on today's youth?
• Around 90 of Indian people speak English.
• According to the World Almanac Book of Facts
  2007 there are 16 official languages spoken in
  India.

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Education

• As a student who moved away at 16 to study at
  college, I attended college twice a week at
  9.00-7.00, I found it very different to Sofia's
  college where I have studied for the last two
  weeks, as it was like going back 2 years to when
  I attended college everyday from 9.00-3.15.
• Students that attend Sofias college are usually
  in collage by 8.40(this sometime differs) and
  leave anytime between 2.00 or 3.00. also most of
  the students including my hosts attend tuition
  classes for a few hours after class (this is
  optional.)
• Education is far more intense in India and is
  very focused on academics, where as at my college
  in England there are far more vocational courses
  that are acceptable for those who want to learn a
  trade or are not academic.
• Some people that go to Sofias college travel
  more than 1 hour every day to get there, Imogens
  family live in Andheri and she travels by foot,
  rickshaw and cab and takes over 1 hour to get to
  college in the morning, my journey isn't too bad
  as I am living 15 minutes away from the college,
  but at my college and previous school in England
  the school you go to is chosen by the catchments
  area and how far you live away from the college.

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Education cont

• In Britain every child over 3 and up to 18 is
  entitled to free education.
• 3-5 nursery (Part time)
• 4/5-7 infant school (full time)
• 7-11Jnr school (Full time)
• 11-16 Secondary school full time)
• 16-19 6 form, collage or apprenticeships (depends
  on course usually full time)
• We study the national curriculum. This is a
  variety of subjects all delivered to the same
  learning outcomes across the country. The main
  subjects are Maths, English, Science, Religion,
  I.T and a language. If we are clever enough in yr
  10 (14yrs) we chose up to 15 subjects to take at
  exam level. Then again at 16 we specialize in 4
  or 5 or go on to do an apprenticeships or a
  vocational courses before we move on to
  university.
• National curriculum in India
• Free Education in India is only available for
  girls up until grade 12. (this is only in
  Marashta)
• Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten alphabet,
  phonetics, numbers and basic English language.
• Grade 1-4 maths, English, history, geography,
  science, Hindi and optional regional language
• Grade5-10 all the above, economics, civics and
  sciences divided into chemistry, biology and
  physics
• Grade11-12 choose between arts, commerce and
  science
• Grade 12- higher education specialised fields
• In England if your family are on a low income the
  student between 16-19yrs will get up to 30p/w to
  assist with their studies. The family might also
  get some other benefits to help with the living
  costs of keeping that student at home.
• In India there is no similar system.

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Youth on culture and traditional family values

• Parents have become more open and accepting to
  newer Culture and breaking traditional values
• I made a questionnaire to find out what the
  traditional values/culture are with Indian youth.

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Bollywood

• People watch Bollywood to escape their usual
  boring dull lives
• Bollywood produces 1000 full length feature films
  a year that on average are 3 hours each and is
  considered to be the largest film company in the
  world because of its number of movies produced.
• Four billion movie tickets are sold each year.
• 56 of the teenagers I spoke to said yes they
  would want a career in the media industry.
• Like the western theatres, Bollywoods tone is
  melodramatic, the story usually contains,
  star-crossed lovers, corrupt politicians, twins
  separated at birth, conniving villains, angry
  parents, courtesans with hearts of gold, dramatic
  reversals of fortune, and convenient coincidences
  are almost always woven into the story.
• As part of my research I interviewed a group of
  girls and found out what they thought of
  Bollywood, I asked them to some up Bollywood and
  how they thought it is perceived world wide, if
  they thought that Bollywood impacted on Indian
  youth and set the music and fashion trends that
  Indian teenagers follow.
• Here is the discussion that I had with the girls.

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Impact Media has had on youth

• Night life has become a lot more acceptable and
  parents are accepting a lot of culture changes
  because of the media
• When I have been carrying out my research I have
  found out that the primary ambition amongst youth
  is to become rich, youth in India are
  interested in high paying jobs in the media
  industry, where as for years the high regarded
  jobs were in civil-service, engineering and
  medicine.
• Here are the results to my questionnaire that I
  carried out on the film and media Industry.

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What media industrys think

• As part of my project I met up with Sarah Jane
  former Miss India and VJ, to see how she felt
  about how the media has an impact on the youth of
  this generation.
• Here is the interview
• After speaking with Sarah Jane, it became clear
  that the media has a lot to do with the clothes,
  music and other things that youth spend money on
  while aspiring to be someone from the media.

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Youth culture of my host family

• I experienced another different culture of Indian
  youth, while living with my host family, where
  welcoming anyone into their family including
  friends, family and new comers (like me) is the
  way of life. While staying for two weeks with the
  Nongrums (who rock by the way) I found out what
  they think youth culture is.
• My free time is spread between studying (as want
  to achieve top grades), my own additional work
  experience opportunities, I also have a paid job
  as a pool life guard which I had to take a
  special qualification for.
• With my friends I enjoy sport I have competed at
  national, county and club level in a variety of
  sports, but also enjoy out door activities like
  climbing ghyling, canoeing and camping going out
  to clubs and gigs. Or just having my friends
  round to the house to eat, or watch T.V my
  favourite shows are, The Hills, Scrubs, Hollyoaks
  and Americas Next top Model.
• I asked my host Reisa, similar things, in her
  free time she likes going out to eat, clubbing,
  going to concerts, hanging out with friends at
  the house and watching friends play sport. When
  watching T.V she likes to watch sitcoms like,
  Desperate Housewives, Scrubs, Friends and
  Americas Next Top Model. The music Reisa is into
  I modern rock, a small amount of Hip Hop and
  global music.
• I come from a single full time working parent and
  live in a council house my family are not
  traditional but do believe in hard work,
  courtesy, respect for others and emotional
  intelligence.
• The family I have been adopted into do not
  consider themselves a traditional family, but
  they also believe in hard work in everything they
  do., they believe in respect for their family and
  friends and their maids,

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