A True Fairy
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Joined: June 15 2007
From: Greece
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Although I left greek school when i was 9, , I can say that the general problem in Greek schools is the sense of competition, that is against. I mean, when I was in school overseas, we had a tedency to to compete for on getting higher grades, good-natured jokes and dating girls, if. In Greece today, most kids compete against on looks and fashion, machoness and on having the "specific" girl. This attitude owes to the sense of the society's conscience, that we must fight for what we believe. In that retrospect, you have no chance in trying to talk with youth for more than 30 seconds on an argument, and either they are prooved their argument wrong, they won't accept it. Why? Because, especially in schools, teachers lost all their power to maintain discipline by the introduction of the family committees. From then on, troublemakers, especially with parents on those committes, could not be punished examplenary, resulting into a spread of anarchy and abuse of power. And due to a questionable law which prohibits any law enforcement on education grounds, all hell broke lose. Being a nerd or geek was hard, now its dangerous. Due to the bullying and harrasing which can't be contained, or properly reported.
But really, is it the youth's fault? Seriously, what can a kid do when they have no-one to talk to. Not that all adults are to blame, but the society in general has a due. Given that most adults grew up in the poverty-sticken landscape of the 50's and 60's, and through endless work they made somthing of themselves, they took it into great concern that their kids would have all they were deprived of. That resulted into a greek youth that, in sense, by being offered material objects, like videogames, pocket money, trendy clothes, they were compensated for the lack of parental attention, due to the fact that parents didn't want their children to seem left behind the rest. Come by Greek schools, from primary, and you'll see, at least until recently, all the latest fashion trends on small kids. Seriously, why would a 7 year old need designer clothes? And by constantly giving all this effort to provide for their kids, they left out the simple need of family feeling. One can say that this sense of anarchy was a way to obtain the parent's attention, which still didn't listen. Instead, they went further out. Especially with boys, which Greek parents still consider the male chavism, a first grader normally knows already about his "second use" downstairs, and later on is encouraged by his home to have girlfriends and hook up. So, instead of letting the nature of hormones to the get the boy/girl thng started, its almost 'enforced' on the kids. And boys epsecially are started to be considered "men" not at 16 or 18, but by 10 or 12. And fine, matuarity can kick in early. Except in their case, its only a half-benefits-no-consequence thng, that they accept the benefits of "manhood" such as more pocket money and more freedom, but not the responsibilities that come with feeling older, such as thinking about their lives after home or such.
On the economy, all I can say is that, we ourselves are to blame. By voting for politicians for securing a son's or daughter's livehood in the public sector, we overburdened it so much, that not only overdebted it, we also made the bureacracy chaeotic, as well as useless, as so many qualified people were left out. By removing all sense of responsibility on striking, everyone considers their right to strike as theirs, scaring away foreign investement and business opportunities, that workers could strike anytime. Imagine being a shipowner and your vessel, on the least day of renovation, is heldback by the strikes, which happen continously. By keeping the marketshare of largelly contained to specific personal enterprises, which were set up with bad business planning, such as a restaurant with 100 tables in an area where most costumers would be 30, or a fashion shop on brands the girlfriend likes, development of new industries was stagnated. And instead on usefully investing all the extra money the goveremnt was handing out, which were EU aid supposedly for development, the people spent it on nightclubs and luxury materials, with the sense "live life today, cause you never know what tomorrow brings" as well as drive an edge of prestige against each other. Well the "tomorrow" finally came, and here we are. In the UK, tha Labour govt. almost fell due to some "excessive" expenses by members. Here, by the cuts and thefts, almost all major politicians are super rich. However,its not that we never knew about them. We always did. But, by handing us the "benefits" from one hand, and rousing nationalism and ethnic hatred on the other, thay managed to make us their "accomplishes" and remain silent, until they had nothing left to give. By taking advantge of our weakness in failing to accept the success of the person next to us, and wanting to be feel better than the rest, they managed to subdue us.
And, forget the crisis, forget the bailouts, until the society starts to feel and belive in a world of"WE" and not simply "ME", we'll never accomplish anything!
This post has been edited by earth123: Oct 15 2011, 12:38 AM
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