Youth is about renewal, fresh ideas challenging old traditions and a yearning for the untried. Youth finds change inebriating, not intimidating.
Youth is also impetuous, unpredictable: with the promise of a better future comes a veiled threat to tear down the past. Authoritarian regimes in particular know the gangers of enraged students. Youth breaks all the rules.
Youth is colorful, irreverent, entertaining, sometimes shocking, almost always rebellious. Youth is on the vanguard of fashion, music, literature and popular culture. But the young are also the first to hurl stones, to lob bombs, to rush to the barricades.
youth is, in a word, energy-energy that in vast china can be funneled into the excesses of red guards or into the excitement of an internet start-up, into the mob that threw paintballs at the U.S. embassy in Beijing after the Belgrade bombing, or into the eager line of visa applicants who stand outside the same building now, hoping to study at Harvard or Berkeley.
Youth is also impetuous, unpredictable: with the promise of a better future comes a veiled threat to tear down the past. Authoritarian regimes in particular know the gangers of enraged students. Youth breaks all the rules.
Youth is colorful, irreverent, entertaining, sometimes shocking, almost always rebellious. Youth is on the vanguard of fashion, music, literature and popular culture. But the young are also the first to hurl stones, to lob bombs, to rush to the barricades.
youth is, in a word, energy-energy that in vast china can be funneled into the excesses of red guards or into the excitement of an internet start-up, into the mob that threw paintballs at the U.S. embassy in Beijing after the Belgrade bombing, or into the eager line of visa applicants who stand outside the same building now, hoping to study at Harvard or Berkeley.