Living As An Adolescent In The Us Vs What It Might Be Like In Another Country
Submitted by keyho1 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Living As An Adolescent In The Us Vs What It Might Be Like In Another Country
Adolescent In U.S. vs. Other Countries
Growing up in America as an adolescent was often very hard for me. I always wished I was someone else and could have a different life. Little did I know that children in some other countries had life much harder than I did. The hardest thing for me as an adolescent in the U.S. was the fact that the town I lived in was lower economically than the surrounding areas. I did not always have the cool clothes or coolest house or get to go on vacations like other kids. This often got me made fun of at school and this made me a very shy kid. To me this was the "hard life." I guess if I put it into perspective, my "hard life" was a "grand life" for adolescents in other countries.
Adolescents in the U.S. are very fortunate to have what they have. We are able to live in houses and be supported by our families with food, clothing, and love. Adolescents are able to buy cars and go to the shopping mall for clothes. American kids have the privilege of being able to be materialistic. In other countries adolescents are not as fortunate. In third world countries, adolescents may not have adequate shelter or clothing. Clean water and food may not be readily available, and some adolescents may live on their own on the streets because their parents are either dead or have abandoned them. There probably is not much time for these children to have fun. They probably have to work all the time to help support their families. These adolescents also run a much higher risk of dying of diseases because inoculations usually are not available or are too costly. They sometimes die of simple illnesses that would not faze us at all. Adolescents in the U.S. are also more educated on diseases such as AIDS. Even though there are many AIDS cases in the U.S., it is nothing
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Adolescent In U.S. vs. Other Countries
compared to areas of the world such as South Africa. The U.S. is just a much...
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