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English Coursework – Hooligan Report

A Report On The Problems Of Youth Culture

By Bryni Keeble-Morris 10th Feb 2007

Intended for: Bradford Council

Stereotypes of Youths Today

There are many stereotypes of youths today, but the main ones seem to be that most young people are all hooligans, yobs and slobs. If you delve closer into the matter though, you will see there is a lot more to it than meets the eye.

If you go up to any youth in the street, 9 out of 10 of them would more than likely be polite to you and have an ordinary conversation with you. But many of the older generation seem to think that this is not so.

 I myself have come across this and it seems to confuse me. My grandmother is quick to rant on about youths being ‘yobs’ whenever she reads anything about the like.

 I myself have been stopped in the street by police and been asked to move on away from where me and 4 of my friends were chatting away and fooling around, nothing out of the ordinary, just youths being youths, but not unruly youths.

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 I was so shocked then to be asked for all my details and as I peered over and read why my details had been taken down I read the letters ‘ASB’ with a tick next to it, anti-social behaviour! Ive never done anything criminal in my life and now I was being cautioned for talking to my friends in a public street! The police seem to think if you are young, you are in a group of more than 3, and you are walking around in a public place, you are definitely going to cause trouble.

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