The world today is
filled with sparkling amount of youngsters; gifted, ungifted, talented and
untalented youth. This generation youth are young ones who are directed,
supported, mentored. There is also another category of youngsters who
are contrarily the opposition of the directed and mentored youth; they are the
unsupported, misdirected youths. There is a saying about a coin being two sided
this adage also coincides to life having its good side and bad sides as well, don’t you think that an
average youth is also faced with the good and the bad sides? Oh yes!! Everyone
has its good and bad sides and everyone is faced at a certain time with the
coin situation. Let’s consider two interesting social stratifying approaches of
a youth;
The
rich and the poor
This
instance is brought forth because it is one of the popular descriptions of
social stratification in our society today and everything evolves hugely around
this stance. The rich are considered as those graced and opportune right? ,
they can actually get everything they want, in the African community they can
be easily connected/linked to their fellow high stratified fellows who
eventually links there youths(kids) to a higher echelon, without linkage, this
category are financially buoyant to have a good rapport with their peers of the
same height. They are provided with basic amenities which enables them secure
the heights they are presently; as their parents and sponsors are seen as the
bastion to their success, they are groomed, mentored, monetised and provisioned
into the society of ours not to forget being exposed to the society and the
world around them.
On the contrary, the
poor or the less privileged are youths (kids) birthed by struggle, schooled by
struggle and climbs the ladder of success by struggle. Let’s also say God’s
grace also walks with them. Birthed by struggle, let’s take it aback for a
while , the parents of this category of youths might probably be exposed to
struggle during pregnancy and post-partum stages as even meals, medications of
the mother was a disadvantage, after this period, the child is exposed to
intense hustle as they are exposed to a harsh society, community secondary
schools which are termed to be owned by the government; but the reverse is the
case here as the teachers are high school certificates or WAEC holders, school
dropouts who display themselves as teachers and mentors of this kids hereby,
transmitting there low IQ to this youths, schools of low intellectual
exhibition, this as a factor decreases the child’s initiative as to be compared
to the contrary, some of them in this category are unexposed as they are
restricted to a confined environment where growth in every positive aspect is a
denial, as they are misinformed about vital information and misuses certain
bouquets.
They struggle through schooling;
some of them because of financial issues playing its major role loss interest
of continuum and are force to stop by parents while some conduits through
intense suffering just to attain a fixed goal for themselves and their families
and even after graduation because of being unexposed and also attending less facilitated
schools, they have no mindset of
venturing into any sustainable means of profit, thereby relying on the high
seeking white collar jobs which are practically on the favor of the connected
and highly stratified citizens leaving the graduates to affiliate with
undergraduates just to make a living.
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