YOUTH AND SOCIETY
- Today young people take an active part in social life. How do they do it?
It’s quite natural that young people want to socialize with their equals so as to express their views on several political and social issues. They join youth organizations and societies. The main aim of these organizations is to involve young people into socially useful activities such as sporting events, volunteering, assisting the old and handicapped, carrying out some ecological projects and doing other things.
Tere are a lot of young organizations in Belarus. The most authoritative of them are^ the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM), the Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization, the Association of Belarusian Scouts, the Association of Belarusian Guides and some others.
Each teenager can choose themselve what organization join and what ideas reflect.
- Would you like to join any of the organizations you’ve heard about? Why (not)?
I wouldn’t like to join any of the organizationa as I havent found anything special or interesting for my personal development. I’m very busy with my studies, besides I’ve got a lot of interests and hobbies. I visit fitness club and read a lot. By the way, I’m a very sociable person and have got some close friends and a lot of schoolmates or just mates to communicate with. I’m fond of travelling and like to meet new people.
Thus, I don’t feel intention to join any organizations.
I joined the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM) some years ago. It is a youth organization in Belarus. Its goals are to promote patriotism and to instill moral value into the youth of Belarus.
We participate and organize different sporting events, pass out flowers to veterans of the Great Patriotic War (World War II), also we help them to hold the house.
I’m proud to be a member of this great organizations.
- What questions can you ask about the recent event organized by the BRSM?
- Where did t held?
- How many participants were there?
- What were the aims of the event?
- Did they like the resurt?
- What camping would you recommend to start? Why?
It’s rather hard questions to answer. I think teenagers in our country are very busy with their studies and have no time to participate in copains. But at the same time it is necessary to start any cultural compaign which can help teenagers to organize music band or to help them make their career choise. Or maybe to start any travelling compaign to show the beauty of our country and its nature, to visit the farthest villages in the country, to speak with people living there and even to write the legends of those places. It’s a real heritage of our country.
- Not all young people in Belarus have joined youth organizations. What stops them?
To my mind, they don’t understand the aims or activities of these organizations. Some teenagers haven’t found anything special or interesting for their development, some are lazy to take part in anything.
It depends on a person if he an active or a passive member of the society.