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| | Youth Culture and Growing Up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | A separate youth culture could not exist at all if it were not for this dramatic separation of young people from the adult world. As Hersch writes, More than a group of peers, (this tribe) becomes in isolation a society with its own values, ethics, rules, world view, rites of passage, worries, joys and momentum. |
 | | With the loss of a widely shared cultural consensus about sexual behavior and morality, and with all kinds of contradictory messages from the culture, media, teachers, parents, and peers, it should not be surprising that sex is now a huge source of anxiety for many girls and boys. |
 | | They need the youth culture for their very existence and have everything to gain by keeping young people in adolescent/teenage mode, isolated from the adult world, and looking to the media to know what to care about, what to buy and how to live. |
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