Today’s time may be also named as a time for bold measures.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “We cannot always build the future for our
youth, but we can build our youth for the future” [1]. Youth is often
considered to represent the future as they bring new ideas and energy to
add to the pool of knowledge that currently exists. They can bring
enthusiasm and vitality which can lead to new discoveries and
developments that can benefit society or even the world at large. Although
not the only drivers of social change, young people are seen to be one the
key drivers engendering change. Youth are not only the leaders of
tomorrow, but also the partners of today. Young people are social actors of
change and progress. The new generation has many fine ideas of
completing a task and has better leadership qualities. Youth also renews
and refreshes the current status of the society including leadership,
innovations, skills etc. Youngsters are expected to advance the current
technology, education, politics and peace of the country. On the other
hand, young people have also to maintain the culture together with all good
values in the society. So, youth plays a great role in modern society

Pancholi, Vibhuti

English

SocioEconomic Challenges Journal (Sumy State University)

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Міністерство освіти і науки України 
Сумський державний університет 
Кафедра мовної підготовки іноземних громадян 
 
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine 
Sumy State University 
Department of Language Training of Foreign Citizens 
 
 
 
 
 
«Наукова спільнота студентів ХХІ століття» 
 
Матеріали ІІ Всеукраїнської науково-практичної студентської 
конференції 
(16–17 квітня 2019 року, м. Суми) 
 
II All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Student Conference 
«Scientific Community of the Students of the XXI Сentury» 
(Sumy, April 16–17, 2019) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Суми 
Сумський державний університет 
2019 
 
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YOUTH IN MODERN WORLD 
 
Vibhuti Pancholi, student, gr.MTSm-733 an, India 
Scientific supervisor: H.V. Diadchenko, candidate of philological sciences 
Sumy, SSU 
 
Today’s time may be also named as a time for bold measures. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “We cannot always build the future for our 
youth, but we can build our youth for the future” [1]. Youth is often 
considered to represent the future as they bring new ideas and energy to 
add to the pool of knowledge that currently exists. They can bring 
enthusiasm and vitality which can lead to new discoveries and 
developments that can benefit society or even the world at large. Although 
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not the only drivers of social change, young people are seen to be one the 
key drivers engendering change. Youth are not only the leaders of 
tomorrow, but also the partners of today. Young people are social actors of 
change and progress. The new generation has many fine ideas of 
completing a task and has better leadership qualities. Youth also renews 
and refreshes the current status of the society including leadership, 
innovations, skills etc. Youngsters are expected to advance the current 
technology, education, politics and peace of the country. On the other 
hand, young people have also to maintain the culture together with all good 
values in the society. So, youth plays a great role in modern society. 
21st century problems cannot be solved by 20th century weapons. 
Each new generation has new ideas of its own. Because of communication 
and other activities world is going at good rate with efficient technologies. 
Growing up in a globalized world, where modern communication and 
technology connects nearly everyone, young people have friends all around 
the world nowadays. People in the different countries are no longer distant 
and strange − it’s possible to communicate with them every day. Such 
situation creates background of building more trustful relations and also 
helps to avoid fear of foreign cultures and religions. So, communication 
gives modern people the ability to bring down borders.  
Whether this is inherent in the beliefs of young people or the hope 
for the future is placed upon them by older generations is not clear. 
However, modern world is changing and developing, and this affects the 
lives of the people living there in varying degrees depending on their 
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individual circumstances. Therefore, there are many new opportunities 
becoming available that can provide very different futures for today’s 
youth that were not available to previous generations. To summarize 
mentioned above we may define the key role of youth in modern society as 
renovation, refreshing and maintaining a civilization in the whole. 
Young people are considered to be vitally important as they will 
bring new ideas and development to improve their country where older 
people are not innovative and cannot deal with the new ideas. This 
perception differs from the views of young people and indeed older or aged 
people.  
The ability of the young people is due to two main factors. The first 
is the level of education, which also helps in their wealth status, and the 
second is their social status and/or religious position [3]. The main idea of 
the present article is to give analyse of modern youth living in Indian 
society. We’d like to observe Indian national circumstances and role of 
young modern Indians due to the growing importance of politics, 
economics and culture of our native country in all over the world.  
The better educated the young person is, the more likely he or she is 
to participate more fully in civil society according to available research. 
Therefore, increasing the level of education across the country is important 
to develop the skills of the young people to enable them to undertake the 
type of jobs.  
There is a substantial problem with illiteracy across the Indian 
population, and even children attending school are leaving education still 
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illiterate. This is particularly the case for the children from the poorest 
sectors of society. As far a young people are a crucial segment of a nation’s 
development and their contribution, therefore, is highly needed, illiteracy 
appears to be one of the major problems of Indian modern society. 
Youth constitute major portion of the world’s population. About 
25 percent of the world population is youth [1]. There is more youth in the 
world now than ever before, and the number in absolute terms will 
increase. (Most young people live in developing countries, of course. 
When we look at the entire planet, 50 percent of young people in such 
countries are under the age of 30) [2]. Thus, such a major portion of 
population can’t be ignored. Add to it the energy and determination, youth 
can be even considered to be almost the whole population and surely the 
leaders of future.  
Younger generation is more creative, energetic, hardworking and 
innovative. That’s why they make the great impact in technologies, sports, 
fashion, business, education, health and politics. Today’s youth will be 
future doctors, sports personalities, entrepreneurs, designers, educators and 
leaders. Economic development is also highly depending on young 
generation efforts. So, it is highly important to help, support, encourage, 
and inspire young generation in their personal and career development. 
That’s why the national youth day is celebrated in India every year on 12th 
January on the birthday occasion of the spiritual leader Swami 
Vivekananda [3].  
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Each generation develops values based on events that happened 
while they were growing up. Such experience also includes their parents 
teaching. So, we also expect from the modern youth teaching (together 
with adults) both the teenagers and kids all aspects of general life, showing 
them the way so that they grow up the right and the wrong. Youth have the 
role of teaching, advising and encouraging teenagers and the younger 
generation. Youngsters are to help teenagers to solve social, educational, 
psychological, emotional and various problems the teenagers encounter in 
life. They also help younger generations to attain a higher level of 
intellectual ability and to become qualified adults later.  
After some time the young people are expected to be the next 
parents that means to start and maintain their own families as their parents 
did. Intermarriages between the youth may bring sharing of ethnic cultures 
and hence this could improve peace within communities in country. On the 
other hand they could be the factor of misunderstanding between relatives 
and many difficulties in process of common living. One thing seems to be 
invulnerable argument: sharing of different cultures all over the country 
may bring national peace and social well-being of every citizen. 
All mentioned above cannot deny that youngsters may be also lazy, 
self-indulgent, aggressive and destructive. Unfortunately today we find the 
young people who are more interested in other places which are not useful 
to them as well as nation. They choose to spend their days doing drugs and 
playing video games as well as spend their nights partying. They have no 
vision and if they do have dreams they do not have the drive to make any 
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attempt at achieving them. But if the youngsters don’t come up with new 
and better ideas, it would hinder the progress. Martin Luther has said, "I 
have a Dream" [1] and the dream come largely true. If he had not thought 
of that dream he would have accomplished nothing in his life. 
It is common knowledge that not all people mature at the same age; 
they do not develop at the same rate physically and they certainly do not 
develop at the same time in terms of personality. In spite of this, we have 
come to regard youth as being the so-called teenagers, between 13 and 20 
years of age. Also youth are also not considerable as they are busy in their 
electronic world with mobiles, internet and social networking sites. As due 
to enlarged technology, people are busy in that stuffs which had great 
impact in our society. It seems to us the main reason for the deviant 
behaviour of young people is the attitude of society towards it. 
Undoubtedly, all these problems arose only when the environment began 
to treat adolescents as a special group of people and grant them special 
rights. It should be noted that it is really inherent for a young person to 
critically evaluate the social reality surrounding him/her from the point of 
view of opportunities for self-realization and achievement of the desired 
status.  
Mentioned above is the dark side of the horrific reality of the 
modern world together with such social problems as poverty, 
unemployment, inequality, exploitation of man by man as well as 
terrorism. That is why the role of youth is of most importance in today’s 
time.  
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Unfortunately, youngsters have underplayed themselves in field of 
politics. They often have indifferent attitude towards situation in their 
native country and politics all over the world. Politics is one of the lesser 
touched fields by the youth. Lack of unity and spirit is the major setback. 
But young participation is important because youth is the country’s power, 
strong force in social movements. So we observe the youth as time for 
person to realize its power, its own role, its duties and responsibility and 
stand up for its rights which include political life participation. We hope to 
see young leaders who have the power and the brains. Our common 
national dream is to see Indian nation having pragmatics as well as 
educated politicians who focus on getting rid of the problems rather than 
minting money. To change the system you have to become a part of it first 
– so the transformation of the corrupted political system would be realised 
through the youngster’s active participation in the political life of the 
country.  
We suppose youth to be the new definition of the changing times. 
Today’s youth is full of spark, they are not obstinate; they make mistakes 
and learn from them. They are dynamic and have inexplicable courage. 
The power of youth is common wealth for entire world. No segment in 
society can match with power, enthusiasm and courage of young people. 
That is why we hope modern youngsters should be dynamic factor of 
changing India on its way to social development and economic welfarism 
of the entire nation. 
 
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