Some People Believe that Friends Have a Bigger Impact on Young People, While Others Think Parents and Teachers Influence Them More. Discuss Both Views and Give Your Opinion. Give Reasons for Your Answer and Include Any Relevant Examples from Your Own Knowledge or Experience.
Some humans consider close friends to have a much greater effect on youths, while others disagree and think parents and lecturers are role models. I believe friends play a huge part in teenagers’ behaviour due to peer pressure, whereas younger generations tend to acquire traits from their parents and tutors in their daily lives.
On the one hand, there is much evidence that the younger generation’s manners reveal their best friend’s behaviour, and at a young age, people easily appear to follow what their friends do. In other words, it is known as peer pressure. Scientific studies stated that 98 per cent of friends share common interests, which is why they get along, and vice versa, which is true as it is very rare to find a group of friends who have different features. For example, in the southern part of Tanzania, there is a vast number of primary school dropouts, and the number might rise in the coming few years as the remaining students follow their friends who left school before them. HAKI ELIMU, a non-government organisation, documented the statistics that shocked the whole country. They said more than a quarter of those who ran away from school were friends during their time at school.
On the other hand, the younger generation has a tendency to copy what their parents and teachers perform in front of them. Teenagers have the ability to learn faster behaviours they see in someone who they consider superior to them, for example in the United States of America in the city of Texas, which is famous for its drug business and gang violence due to the presence of Mexico and America borders as a lot of senior people do this kind of jobs. Hence, the children and youths around them followed and resulted in street gang crimes and drug trading did not vanish and have continued to be there since the ’90s despite the generation changes. After some time, this occurs because younger people see and believe it is the thing to carry out because their parents are the one who sells and buy drugs.
To recapitulate, it is often argued that others think that parents and teachers influence the younger generation more, while some people believe friends have a bigger impact. Because of peer pressure from friends, younger people always follow in the footsteps of their parents and teachers. Regardless of the acknowledgement of friends’ impact, in my opinion, parenting and teaching play a crucial part in children’s behaviours.
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