"IMPOLITENESS AMONG YOUTH"

Have you ever notice that youth nowadays is lack of moral value? Currently there were so many cases reported to media about the bullying and fighting among youth. Don’t you think all this begun from the impoliteness manner? Impoliteness can be define as rude or not polite (Oxford fajar), and thereby cause social conflict and disharmony. Impoliteness comes out when the speaker communicates face-attack intentionally or the hearer perceives and or constructs behaviour as intentionally face-attacking, or combination of both. If they practices politeness and respect each other, those kinds of things would never happened. Since we were kids, we have been taught to respect the elder, speak polite word, shaking hand and eyes contact. This proper manner brings harmony to the society. But today, manners among youth are dead.

Youth fighting at school

Where have manners gone? Of course this all leads back to bad parenting. To parent, the classes are a handy way for busy, often affluent parents to instill important values in their children lives. Two working parents just can’t teach kids how to behave properly. But it's not just that parents are too busy to instill values into their children, they perhaps spending too much time with technology or don't feel equipped to teach proper manners. They enrolled their children because they felt unable to provide the lessons themselves.

Besides that, peer influence also could affects youth’s behaviour. This is because they spend more much time at school with friends rather than with their parents at home. They may only meet their parents at night before slept since parents nowadays are too busy with work. So youth will be closer to their friends because friends give them attention more than their parents do. Sometimes they make their friends as their role model. They would like to copy whatever their friends do; either it is good or bad.

The others factor that contributing to the impoliteness is technology. Cell phones and digital communication in general have completely changed the way people interact. Youth are so attached to their gadgets rather than learn acceptable social skills. Children devote an average of seven hours and 38 minutes to entertainment media each day and 66 percent of those youth own cell phones. With less human talk time, youth aren't learning how to interact in the actual world. Not only does technology limit face-to-face time, but it also has increased the amount of communication people have. The Internet and cell phones have let all impolite evils infiltrate the once polite, isolated culture. 

Youth are the important people in future. Everyone is responsible to instill the moral value to the youth. They should been taught the proper manners, civil values, and good culture so that the harmony can be maintain in our society.

Together learns the ethics.