Stereotypes Of Teenagers

Are teenagers all the same? In this essay I'm going to talk about the teenage stereotype and what people think when they think of teens. In my first paragraph I'm going to talk about what the teenage stereotype is and what people think of them. In my second paragraph I'm going to talk about how the media portrays teenagers to being bad. In the third paragraph I will show how teens are effected by teenage stereotyping and for my fourth paragraph I will talk about the truth about teenagers and how they aren't all the same. The main point I will be arguing in this essay will be about how teenage stereotyping is wrong.

The typical stereotype for teenagers is that we are loud, rude obnoxious, lazy and are always getting up to no

So do we ever hear good stuff like good exam results or young people volunteering and helping their communities, overcoming challenging obstacles I'm not going to say that the media doesn't show stuff like this but definitely there is more bad headlines out there. The media has such a huge impact on the way people see teens and stereotype them as the majority of people use the media in some shape of form like through internet, TV and social media for example when the media shows teenagers fighting people tend to stereotype teenagers to fighting and violence also most older age groups read news articles online and some of these articles make teens out to be bad and twist the story to make teens out to be worse than they are this then leads to older people thinking the younger generation is all bad and this gives older people a negative stereotype of young people, to be honest can you blame people for thinking this? You see so much bad stuff that it would make anyone think teenagers are the stereotypes the media make them out to

Employers think that teens will be lazy, turn up late , get into trouble the list could go on. This then means teens are left at a disadvantage once again. According to a BBC survey which shows 85 per cent of 14 to 17 year old's say they feel negative stereotypes has effected their job prospects. People create a distorted image that puts young people at a disadvantage.Negative stereotypes not only affect how adults see teenagers, they influence how teenagers see themselves. The feeling that the rest of the world doesn’t respect or understand you it is hard for teenagers as they are going through big changes in there life and have a lot more responsibility. The website named stroify interviews a 16 year old boy about his feelings about stereotyping and the way it has had an impact on him and this is what he said “Today’s youths are intelligent but some adults don’t seem to think so. We are people too. Youths are discriminated against and that’s not right. To get through to young people, you have to listen to them, trust them, and respect them". These are just a few examples of how teenage stereotyping has effected young people and I think its clear that giving young people a negative stereotype has to stop because it is having a huge