Salal Ameen
Behavior of children depends on nourishment, environment and language. Undoubtedly, parents put herculean efforts nourishing their children in positive and a better way.
However, their efforts go in vain eventually and they (parents) become coercive to tear their hair out.
A mother pleaded, “My son’s arrogant attitude gets under my skin. My heart bleeds when he says, Ammi you are dumb! His father too, gets furious when he tells his father, Baba you won’t understand! All he wants to do is hanging out with his friends or wasting his precious time.
However most often media is accused of the conducive to this torment but, barely people take glimpse over society, nourishment and language existing around the youth. This problem does not only exist in low-socioeconomic unschooled class but very much in well-educated middle and high class of our society as well.
There are various motives, for sure, other than media and modern lifestyle alone, one of the causes is language. This attitude of young generation has a deep connection with the language. The languages we speak shape our world views.
A research conducted in 2001 at Stanford University by Lera Boroditsky has provided eye opening evidences in favor of this much-debated claim. She collected data from China, Greece, Indonesia, Russia and Aboriginal Australia proving that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently.
Its mean first of all, we must see what sort of language and culture is being transferred to our young ones then hold media responsible.
Writer is a student based in Hub
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