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Teenage Stereotypes Here’re some of the most common and incredibly infuriating assumptions made about teenagers and young adults.

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Page 1: Teenage stereotypes

Teenage Stereotypes

Here’re some of the most common and incredibly infuriating

assumptions made about teenagers and young adults.

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1) We always wear Hoodies?!

• Most of the older generation’s perception of teens is that they’re addicted to labels and only venture outside in intimidating, baggy trousers and hoodies.

• If you see an adolescent wearing a hoody, that doesn’t mean they’re going to stab you and steal your belongings.

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2) We can’t drive…• Car insurance costs

exceed £3000 for 17 year olds who have passed their test.

• ‘Young’ drivers are targeted in talks of accident-prevention on the roads. Surely drivers of all ages are responsible for road safety?

• If every single driver had to retake their test (INCLUDING theory, which many adults have missed out on) would there be as many people still on the road?

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3) We all have ASBOs

• If it were up to some people, every single teenager would be given an ASBO just for the sake of it.

• “Many see the ASBO as connected with young delinquents,” so Wikipedia says, but people as old as 80 have been handed them!

• Just like in any age range, it’s the minority who are awarded them.

An 87 year-old was given an ASBO for constantly playing loud music.

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4) We’ve got it easy.

• “You’ve got it a lot easier nowadays…”• “Everything’s spoon fed to you in this day and

age…”• WRONG!• -Record unemployment levels.• -Abundances of demanding GCSE and A Level

exams.• -Fierce competition for university places.• -All this while facing such small-minded

stereotypes. Do we really ‘have it easy’?

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5) Our exams are easier?

• When the newspapers ran out of scoops, they came up with this: “Exams are getting easier” accusing exam boards of providing ‘less demanding’ exams.

• Then they claim “5 YEAR OLD PASSES GCSE MATHS EXAM…”

• …not mentioning they got an ‘E’ grade, which is far from a ‘pass’.

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5) Our exams are easier?• If our exams are easier, could you answer questions

like these? (source: AQA Higher Tier GCSE Maths exam March 2011).

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6) We all loiter

• When searching ‘loitering’ on Google, what does it suggest?

• You may see gangs hanging around outside shops during the late hours- but they don’t represent all youths!

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7) We’re responsible for pretty much all crime

• It’s easy to blame young people for crimes, but it’s WRONG!

• Before reading a story, thinking ‘teenagers did it’ and then giving every young person you see in the next week a stone-cold glare, remember this:

• Don’t let the MINORITY influence your opinion on the MAJORITY.

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8) We have no interest in politics

• Supposedly, all young people are oblivious to politics…

• …when hundreds of thousands of 16 to 17 year olds, who aren’t even allowed to vote, choose to study Politics at A-Level!

• Perhaps some teenagers are uninterested because they cannot have any say whatsoever in how the country is run.

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9) We’re all obese, couch potatoes

• When someone says ‘Xbox’ or ‘Playstation’, the thought of a pale-skinned, greasy haired teenager with controller in one hand and nachos in the other seemingly springs to mind.

•There are many young, world-famous athletes such as Tom Daley and Usain Bolt and hundreds of thousands of other young, budding and talented sportspeople.

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10) We don’t have any respect• Supposedly, teenagers have no respect for

adults: more notably teachers, parents and the elderly.

• Is it a surprise if we’re barraged with endless prejudice that some teenagers may rebel?

• Then what happens to the rest of us who continue to tolerate constant, unfair accusations? We’re given an even worse name.