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We Sell Distinctive Invitations, Napkins et COME SEE US AT Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave DARN! 1C0QULD HAVE ADVERTISED IN THIS CPACE! Castlegar News 365-5210 October 4, 1989 Ci Castlégar News SECTION Talk to us today. Kootenay Savings Where You Belong Style of a new generation Canadian young people want the good life — and hey’re willing to work for it. They also cherish friendship and about th But few actual get involved in issues of public concern. By STEPHEN NICHO! The Canadian Press Meet the shopping mall generation They live by a code of image and style They prize their friends and praise their country. But above all, they crave comfort, and they'll bust their butts and their bank accounts to get it These are Canadian youth heading into the 1990s. With the current school year initiating a new decade, The Canadian Press decidéd to take a look at the four million Canadians aged 15 to 24 who are heading for maturity in the last 10 years of the 20th century CP talked to youth experts and young people them selves — at schools across the country, hangouts, including, of course, shopping malls. The interviews depict a generation that’s positive in general outlook but passive about social issues, personally ambitious yet politically apathetic. Conversations with today’s youth stir mixed emotions — admiration for their optimism and ambition, about some of the crass materialism They’re a national army with across the country: preppy labels of Esprit and Polo can be spotted on shirts in the Annapolis Valley foothills of Alberta; Nike and Reebok sneakers pad along the shopping malls of Vancouver and Fredericton; ghetto blasters blare with the likes of Miami Sound Machine and Def Leppard in Broughton Island, N.W.T., and Sher brooke, Que. at homes and at dismay uniform regiments and in the MONEY NEEDED “We're going to need a lot of money be so spoiled," says teenage singer Mitsou, seductively clad in black bustier and mini during a break at @ rehearsal hall in west end Montreal. ‘*1 don’t know if we're going to be able to be adults."” Some materialism, use we were teens turn up noses at the word But what do their citing happiness as their goal they think it takes to be happy? “In life, you don’t just want what you need,”” year-old Linda Depeuter, lounging between classes at her school in a blue-collar district of Calgary Racing fo Successful careers are the aim of most Canadians. And they're willing to work hard, but not exclusion of life outside the job. By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Fhe Canadian Press Glancing sideways, listening for footste| for the inside track, they stride for the tomorrow No one can predict who will finish where in their self imposed race for success. But today’s young Canadians aged 15 to 24 are already queuing up to find their niche in the adult world “*In Canada in this modern age, the gun,’’ says Bill Stephens, a silver-haired sociology professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax. **I think they start worrying about this career thing even before they come here.” says 17 You want s, jockeying horizon of youth are really under Despite demographics that suggest they will have it easier than their older brothers and sisters, rs talk repeatedly of competition and pressure “With a lot of pedple like us all wanting to go to university and wanting to get into the same fields, competitive,”’ Alta teena it’s so says vivacious Gia Gotta, 18, of Bearspaw ‘GOEXTRABIT’ “*Even if you get an education, you're not sure if you're going to have a job after that,”* Emery Bouygues, 18, leaning on his chemistry lab table in a down town Varicouver high school. ‘It makes you work harder go that extra bit.”” His schoolmate Corey Austen is not concerned about those who drop out along the way: “‘If anything, it helps my odds — one less person to compete for a job. Will today’s youth find the happiness they seek? Or will society experience psychologist predicts? **1 feel pretty good about what I’m doing,” ney Peterson of Cambridge, N.S., resting a sneakered foot on the red gym bag he's dropped on the school floor. **I think I should succeed if I try enough.” says a massive mid-life crisis, as one says Rod Those comments sum up the thoughts of most young Youth You want a nice stereo, a nice car want to be known.” Another 17-year-old, Olympic gymnast Lori Strong, observes: ‘Now, they’ re starting Where they have their own jobs and there are a lot of things they'd like. “They don’t want to go through the rest of their life deciding whether to buy the cheaper stereo or have to go says the petite, frizzy-haired blonde, sitting on the living-room sofa-of-her-family’s-home in Whitby, Ont. “They want the luxuries of life Marketing research backs that up. OUT TOENJOY “They are certainly on the leading edge of enjoying leisure activities. You buy bargain clothes,”’ consumption, having money to spend, spending it on things that give them pleasure and that make a statement about Linda Saul, bathed in the decorator-grey of the downtown Toronto offices of En vironics Research Group Lid themselves,"’ says a far cry from the society flipping burgers and pumping gas to pay for the compact discs and Today’s young people are a dropouts of the "60s. They're in there slu designer labels Statistics Canada says working youths 19 and unde income of $4,592 “They don’t have to pay anything to live at home, so have an average anu: they have become fairly sophisticated consumers of elec troni¢ equipment, says An toine Baby, Shopping malls are a second home to many of them That's where they har sports supplies and clothes,’ sociologist at Laval University out with their friends and practise a favorite pastime — shelling out cash. But this yen to spend doens't come at the expense of love A national study for the Canadian Youth Foundation r success Canadians interviewed across the country by The Canadian Press While most expressed concern about the future and the pressure to compete, many were convinced they-per- onally would succeed. But todo that, they feel they can’t waste any time ON TREADMILL “They don't give themselves that much time for ex ploration, and they get Very concerned if they’re not in a path,’’ says Sharon Crozier, University of Calgary. ‘‘There’s a lot of this feeling like I've got to get on this treadmill and a guidance counsellor at the et going. Society is forcing youths to n says Michael Boyes, university ake decisions sooner, at the same “We require that people have a pretty good idea a psychology professor of where they’re going to go to college or what they’re going to major in, or if they're not going to go to college, what they’r ping to do career-wise. “We tend to view less favorably people who claim to not know what they're doing when they're 18 or 19 years old, if not earlier “It seems like your whole life is planning for what’s to 18, of Halifax. ‘In high school, we're planning for university. In university, we're planning to go to graduate school. After graduate school, planning to get married, then we're planning to have kids Then we're planning our RRSPs and planning for our retirement. Then we're planning our funerals.”’ DONW THEROAD The price may be paid down the road. It'll be interesting to see what happens in 10, 15 or 20 come,”’ says Jamie Cohen, we're years when the current crop of adolescents start having a 32-year-old Clark Kent rs later that they begin to their mid-life crises,"’ says Boyes, lookalike. have an opportunity to reflect." “It’s only 10 or 15 ye Those who have rushed into careers may have big regrets. **My sense is that we will have more people in that kind of trouble,” says Boyes And what about those who fail to meet their goals? ‘I. don’t know what I would do,”” saystiny Nga Vo, a of Canada want the good | ife found that friendship and being loved were the most sought-after goals reported by Canadian youth freedom, a rewarding career in that order Success, and comfortable life ranked next, “One of the virtues of the youth culture these days is that they are placing a high value on people, consultant Donald dation’s study says Toronto Posterski, co-author of the foun: “That's not to say that friends are enough,” says Posterski, looking thoroughly academic with his salt-and pepper beard and half-frame glasses. ‘'This is where the underlying value of the drive to be successful, the hope to experience the good life is also pretty important.’ Canadian youth are aware of the world around them, mainly through TV and they worry about the en vironment. But they are not moved to act on their worries, Like their parents, news, they often give little more than passing thought-to poverty and war in other parts of the zlobe. They are’ caught up in their own lives and those of their friends. ‘It’s more like everyone for themselves, except for your friends, your own little crowd,”’ says a boisterous Gary Holman, holding court with his buddies in a main street cafe in Cochrane, Alta. ‘*Other than that, basically for yourself to get ahead. It boils down to you got tathink of No. 1." you work FEW REACH OUT Says Posterski: ‘*It's Jife that revolves around the per ard for the broader scale of things “There's a sense that young people have taken out memberships in their own small groups. They don’t sign membership cards, they just talk onthe phone.”* That's a trait that has some people worried “I'm worried about our generation because we're so “UNDER THE GUN’ apathetic and 4elf-centred,"’ says studyirig in sweat pants in the ‘TV residence in Calgary. **All we care about is ourselves and Victoria Black, 19, room of her college where we're going “Down the road, I have a feeling it’s going to bea kill or-be-killed world, to put it bluntly,”’ says Karen Robin son, an 18-year-old from Ayr’s Cliff, Que. ‘Unless people start really giving some of themselves to work together with other people, we're not going to get anywhere That's also the conclusion of Posterski and partner Reginald Bibby national study who are writing a book based on their The book is to be called Partial People — How We Failed Canadian Youth and How We Can Make It Up To Them. ME FIRST AGE “We are going to be arguing (in the book) that young people in dividualism,”’ Univ ity of Canada are says Bibby Lethbridge placed upon individual gratification and happiness, suc into an excessive level of in a professor of sociology at the There’s so much emphasis cess. ‘Individuality isan important emphasis in our time, but if taken to an extreme, if begins to endanger group life.”” bs Some experts suggest that a generation of wealth- seekers may be in for a mass mid-life crisis 10-or 20 years down the road Others think maturity and common concerns for peace and the environment may pull young people together and build community feelings. Certainly, they are not about to abandon tradition: they share their parents’ values, they plan to marry and have children, and they rave about their national or ethnic heritage But Posterski and Bibby say the adult world must take a stronger leadership rote and-help-young-peopte take-a hard look at themselves and the world they live in. “This generation needs to be called to think more,”” Posterski says. ‘Friendship is life with the heart We need to channel young people to more life with the head, more into intellectual stimulation, because we have given thema very complex world “‘In the old days, we lived in a chocolage, vanilla and strawberry society,"’ says Posterski. ‘And today, it’s Baskin and Robbins 31 different choices,”* Young people today are under a great deal of pressure to know what they want to do with their lives from an early age, experts and teenagers say. 7-year-old girl in Calgary who wants a career in biology “It would be really devastating for me if | don’t succeed in what I want todo.”" Some experts have suggested we may see more bouts of serious depression But David University of Toronto, says the future is bright in terms of Foot, an economics professor at the job prospects Based_on_demograhies—of—a-stowty aging society, today’s young people will be in relatively short supply for jobs in the future. WILLBE JOBS “Those aged eight to 20 will have no difficulty getting jobs, independent of how well the economy does,"” says Foot, whose accent is as Australian as the koala bears pic tured on his office door “Yes, they will be entry-level jobs, but because they're Continued on page C3 Young Most young people in Canada are proud of their country and of their heritage. As a group, they tend to ByST HALIFAX (CP) — Inside Gillian Mann thumps the heart of the new teenage nationalist “almost cried when I heard about Ben Johnson,’ moans the articulate 17-year-old, whose chestnut tresses are bound back to reveal dangling wooden-horse earrings, ‘1 was just so let down. He was sort of Canada’s only hope. “We were watching it (the Olympic race) on TV and screaming and shouting,” she says, balling her fists in mock excitement. ‘And then a couple days later when we heard that he took steroids, I just felt like. . ."” The sentence trails off, pucntuated theatrically with downcast eyes anda pained expression proud to be Canadian Pride in thei and heritage runs through today’s young Canadians aged 15 to 24 with heart “They are than the general population,"’ says Linda Saul of Environics Research Group Ltd. of Toronto. “They want to be part of a Canada that is strong that is better, that is doing good things nt it to bea country that they can be proud of.” FORCANADA In a national survey by the Canadian Youth Foun: dation, country a generation more nationalistic They w more than 80 per cent of young people polled said being Canadian is important to them. The response was significantly lower in Quebec than in other parts of Canada, hinting at a di fran. cophones in that province In interviews by identity among The Canadian Press across the country, the overall nationalist sentiment came through loud and clear fu *L like Canada, brook, N.S. The sturdy and red hooded sweatshirt, proclaims: * says Warren Davidson of Cold. 18-year-old, “I’'mnever going tomove out “I'm very patriotic,” says Tammy Scott, a16-year- old from Sherbrooke, Que. “1 think we have Canada," tapping the school lounge coffee: table to drive home here point. “We have a lot of — L natural resources, a huge land and not too many people, a lot of things going for us in she says, I think things will be good for Canada in the future."* are FRENCH PRAISE Even francophone youths who pledged first ce to Quebec had great praise for Canada as a nd caring country Que in denim jacket ha about the effect of the free trade big issue,” book she’s been reading or pronounces, need to become “Canada will become a very strong country in the uture,"* said Nicolas Vaillancourt, 16, of Chicoutimi, We have resources, we have smart people and we ave free trade with the United States Unlike Vaillancourt, some students are worried agreement with the nited States I think the issue of Canada’s sovereignty is a very says Katherine Young, 19, who sets down the a grassy knoll in Vancouver caning back in the sunlight to reflect for a moment, she “Canadians should take a look at who they ind take a good look at the political leaders that they a country on a responsible, inter ational scale “We are going to have to fight not to be like the continued on page C3