I live in Southern California and it seems my peers here have some of the most apathetic attitudes in the world. And it's not just apathy about politics even, it's apathy about everything except lazing around the beach and having fun. People don't care about what happens in the country, don't even bring up anything about the world, and higher education or their future is definitely not on their minds. It's so frustrating!
But for the past couple of weeks, I've been seeing some popular British YouTubers posting videos online encouraging their peers to register and vote. Not only did they do that, but they covered the whole election, or explained their governmental system so locals and foreigners can understand it, and they did so trying to not insert too much of their own opinions or who their voting for so as not to influence their viewers (wow that was a long sentence). I think that's awesome! Young people encouraging other young people to participate in the governing of their world in a responsible manner; why don't we ever see that on the news instead of just constant bashing of young people?
Since the '08 presidential election in the US, the hullabaloo over politics has died down quite a bit here in the US and it's just sad. Adults go back to their "busy schedule" creating excuses not to follow up on politics and current events, while the kids have even more excuses to not care. Still, knowing there are young people all around the world who do pay attention, who do care, who actually go out and do something about it gives me hope, and makes me proud of my generation, despite all the "oh-what-will-our-future-be-like-with-these-apathetic-teenagers" bashing from older generations.
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