It is generally accepted that the Indian youth is much more modern and progressive in their outlook towards various issues such as gender biases, civic awareness, rights of others etc. But the following study reveals that it is not the case, the youth is quite regressive in their attitudes. Indeed a disturbing and worrying cause for a country whose major population is the young.
http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/44-college-students-women-must-accept-violence-31627
It is scary to think that youngsters even if they are small in number are so backward in their thinking. I have heard the way our high school sudents speak and know for a fact that they think of girls as toys or inferior beings meant for their pleasure and use...I blame the parents and the society for such mindset, this inpsite of the fact that you get to see and hear about so many cases of violence and rape .. You must have heard such opinions firsthand since you come into direct contact with students! And Usha what is more worrying is that many of these youngsters belong to the so-called hi-profile convent and English medium schools. One would think that with such kind of modern education, these students would develop a healthy attitude towards women, but it seems to be quite the contrary! I agree that education or rather degree education has nothing to do with ones mindset....I see a lot of sensible thoughts coming from youngsters coming from villages .I feel it is more to do with your surroundings, exposure and parental guidance Usha, rural villages are the ones that still have some kind of proper Indian family structure remaining and there are many people in the family to care for children and to teach them values. In cities children are left to the mercy of daycare people, maidservants who care two hoots about any values or moral education. Children pick up the way their caregivers behave which is totally different and contrary to what we normally value as appropriate. Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:It is scary to think that youngsters even if they are small in number are so backward in their thinking. I have heard the way our high school sudents speak and know for a fact that they think of girls as toys or inferior beings meant for their pleasure and use...I blame the parents and the society for such mindset, this inpsite of the fact that you get to see and hear about so many cases of violence and rape ..
You must have heard such opinions firsthand since you come into direct contact with students! And Usha what is more worrying is that many of these youngsters belong to the so-called hi-profile convent and English medium schools. One would think that with such kind of modern education, these students would develop a healthy attitude towards women, but it seems to be quite the contrary!
I agree that education or rather degree education has nothing to do with ones mindset....I see a lot of sensible thoughts coming from youngsters coming from villages .I feel it is more to do with your surroundings, exposure and parental guidance
Usha, rural villages are the ones that still have some kind of proper Indian family structure remaining and there are many people in the family to care for children and to teach them values. In cities children are left to the mercy of daycare people, maidservants who care two hoots about any values or moral education. Children pick up the way their caregivers behave which is totally different and contrary to what we normally value as appropriate.
Exact;ly Kalyani. The concept of joint families was forced to give place to the nuclear families with the so called modernization and development. And the results of Nuclear families are well before all of us to see where the children are left in the lurch both by the Caretakers and the parents. The age old "Matru devo Bhava, Pitru devo bhava and Acharya devo bhava" has become the thing of the past
The past always sounds romantic, the present chaotic and future uncertain. It is the judgmental interpretation based on surveys that is problematic. The results of limited sample survey are extrapolated to project a frightening scenario. The reality is something different. "Matru Devo Bhava _____" is always going to be true and cannot become a thing of the past. It is the inability of certain self appointed societal caretakers to accept the changing realities which leads to pessimism. What is happening today was happening in past also and will continue in future also. The magnitude changes with population size. The joint families had their time and now nuclear families are the order of the day. Both have their plus and negative points. Why keep harping always on negative points. We must learn to accept change.I repeat the young are as patriotic and caring as were we when we were of their age. At that time also there were moaning elders crying hoarse as to where the society is going. India is a much better country today than yesterday and it is the young who will take it much faster to a still better tomorrow. Trust them.
The fact is some of us rise to the occasion when the need comes the another fact is some of us take things lightly but know what is wrong and what is right. Same is the story of Indian youth that passes all tests when the need arises. We cannot blame our youth based on a random survey.
vijay wrote:Indian youth are patriotic to India and that is not a comparative term, it is a reality which will not change with time.
I'm sure you are not aware of those students who were caught while leaving the country to join ISIS. If this is what you call patriotism, I'm afraid "Patriotism" has to be redefined.
Basing our opinion or judgement on results of a survey could be a preety dicey affair.More so when it involves the most dynamic and volatile section of our nation. It is not about the size of samples rather the representativeness of its subject that makes its reliability and acceptability quotient higher. Without going into such farfetched aspects of patriotism or pessimism and optimism bits, let us deal with issues which the Indian youth are confronted with. It is unmistakably clear that the cataclysmic changes that the past few decades
have wrought in have greatly influenced their behavior significantly and they are in the midst of a grim struggle and challenge to relate themselves to these. Uncritical criticism would do as much harm as smug adulation that nothing is happening really as if only nit-pickers and fault-finders are out to make much ado about nothing!!!!
In the past 3-4 decades we have seen an enormous change in lifestyles and also priorities of our youth.Most of them want to better themselves and also would like to follow western values to a certain extent.There is nothing wrong in that except that their basic attitudes have remained more or less the same - this because of the home atmosphere and the pressures of the society.Most of them do not think that women are equal to them nor do they need to be respected.It is only a small percentage that has mentally evolved to a level where they are able to treat women at par and do not feel threatedned when they come across educated ,confident and evolved women...
The treatment of women in the society itself is in a horrible condition. I am yet to come across with a single young man who come forward and fight for the woman's plight in the society. Rather, it's the youth who are the main culprits in the rape cases. Expecting something from the youth in the present scenario is mere greediness.
We need to change our mentality and not ban documentary film. Moreover, double standard on so called 'honor' of rape victim also needs be removed. Strangely, a man boasts of his sexual relation with other women whereas a woman is considered having lost her honor even if she is raped. If man does not lose honor, how does a woman. This is what harms women more than physical rape.
MG Singh wrote:We should not go totally by surveys. all the surveys were proved wrong in the Delhi election, but I agree there is a fringe in India that has a warped thinking. What can be done about them ?
We are not merely going by surveys alone. And the fringe you speak about is quite large in numbers which is what makes it more worrisome. I have had the opportunity to work constantly for more 10 years with the young people between the ages of 22 to 30 years, consisting of graduates of various degrees including engineering and architecture amongst others. The way these people think is way too worrisome and disturbing. Of course not all think like that, but proportionate to the population in India, their numbers are too too little.
@kalyani