22 percent of young people in Shanxi would not take
any action if they saw someone who needs help in the street, 60
percent thought they have good relationships with their parents and
58 percent said their legal rights have been infringed by parents
or teachers, according to a survey published in China Youth
Daily on November 7.
Bai Min, deputy director of the China Communist
Youth League Shanxi Committee, told the paper that the survey,
the Attitudes of Youth in Shanxi Province, was
conducted by them and completed in early November.
Many teachers and experts on young people’s
problems took part in the investigation, said Bai, and the survey
lasted nearly a year and interviewed about 20,000 people aged under
18.
Although most were satisfied with their
relationships with their parents, 27 percent thought their biggest
problem was that “the education methods adopted by their teachers
and parents are wrong.”
62 percent said they are willing to communicate or
always do communicate with their parents. 57 percent said they
confide good or bad things with friends, but only share good news
with their parents.
34 percent said the best people to share their
experiences with are senior relatives, and over 30 percent said
they would not want their senior relatives to worry about them.
The 58 percent who said their legal rights had been
infringed by parents or teachers said this included everything from
them reading private messages to being hit by them.
The 22 percent who said they would not help
strangers said it was because it was none of their business,
because they had better things to do or might attract trouble if
they did.
The analysts of the survey said traditional
education methods impose too many limits on young people, according
to China Youth Daily.
(China.org.cn by Wang Ke November 12, 2005)