the most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth
...an say, it is the youth that are creating the contemporary culture. Without the active and creative youth, the contemporary culture may lose its source and vigor and we may not see the flourishing and colorful landscape in the culture. To this extent, by analyzing the youth, the contemporary can be understood well. However, the youth cannot represent the whole scope of the contemporary culture. Since the society constitute of adults and youth, the culture of society also has the part of older generation. The older people, generally speaking, are not so creative and do not easily accept new things as the youth do, for instance, while most youth enjoy their time on the Internet:chating with friends, writing blog, shopping on the net, downlaoding mp3 and movies; the older may just look at some news. However, in the society, they do most of the work to improve our lives, what we eat, what we wear, what we live in. Moreover, culture is a persist thing, the traditions will passdown from the older to the next generation by certain means, that is say, the contemporary culture not only belongs to the youth, and are not only created by the youth, but also the older do as much as, if not more, the youth contributing to the culture. We may observe what the older generation have done to form the character of contemporary culture. Since the culture are made of both the older generation and the youth' contributions, the two generation should not stand respectively, even ...