Influence on Youth Culture
The 1920s is a turning point in the American history, and one of the victims is the youth culture. There were prototypes of pop culture began to emerge. Friction is existing between the principles of the teens and the older generation. One of the great factor that contribute to this transformation is--reducing trend of teenagers working. When the teens are exposed to the atmosphere of schools where everyone is in the same age group, their friends and peers took control over the modeling of their worldviews. Some of the changes about youth culture during 1920s are dancing style, abuse of alcoholic beverage, and the popularity of flappers.
To begin, the dancing style of teens greatly altered during the year of 1920. There is a new form of dance arose--the Charleston. The new generation abandoned the dancing styles of their parents which are slow and gentle and turned into the new tide of Charleston--crazy and enthusiastic. Dancing Charleston required fast-paced swinging of legs and large arms movement. If this is the only factor, Charleston dancing style is actually not a negative influence. Unfortunately, Charleston always accompany with alcohol, smoking, and flappers which make it to become a moral decrease. …show more content…
As a result, the Congress passed out the Eighteenth Amendment. This Amendment was buttressed by many Americans who want to hinder the negative consequences on teenagers caused by the abuse of alcohol. However, unfortunately, the Eighteenth Amendment cannot completely eliminate the existing of alcohol. An underground development of speakeasies happened. Speakeasies are mostly in the form of clubs. They sold alcoholic production. Why they are called speakeasies? Basically, they required the users to “speak easy”, so they will not draw the attention from the police. Consequently, the abusing of alcoholic beverage by teenagers is still a
The 1920s is a turning point in the American history, and one of the victims is the youth culture. There were prototypes of pop culture began to emerge. Friction is existing between the principles of the teens and the older generation. One of the great factor that contribute to this transformation is--reducing trend of teenagers working. When the teens are exposed to the atmosphere of schools where everyone is in the same age group, their friends and peers took control over the modeling of their worldviews. Some of the changes about youth culture during 1920s are dancing style, abuse of alcoholic beverage, and the popularity of flappers.
To begin, the dancing style of teens greatly altered during the year of 1920. There is a new form of dance arose--the Charleston. The new generation abandoned the dancing styles of their parents which are slow and gentle and turned into the new tide of Charleston--crazy and enthusiastic. Dancing Charleston required fast-paced swinging of legs and large arms movement. If this is the only factor, Charleston dancing style is actually not a negative influence. Unfortunately, Charleston always accompany with alcohol, smoking, and flappers which make it to become a moral decrease. …show more content…
As a result, the Congress passed out the Eighteenth Amendment. This Amendment was buttressed by many Americans who want to hinder the negative consequences on teenagers caused by the abuse of alcohol. However, unfortunately, the Eighteenth Amendment cannot completely eliminate the existing of alcohol. An underground development of speakeasies happened. Speakeasies are mostly in the form of clubs. They sold alcoholic production. Why they are called speakeasies? Basically, they required the users to “speak easy”, so they will not draw the attention from the police. Consequently, the abusing of alcoholic beverage by teenagers is still a