The "uplifting" message given to girls by a famous fashion brand and its famous testimonial, in a perfume commercial, is: It's good to be bad. And it's not the only one with similar content. How can anybody be shocked by some behaviors of young people, when they are continuously presented with slogans like this (often even worse)? You know that no society is perfect, that dreadful things happen at the hand of both the younger and the older generations. It is a sad reality of this human life. But shouldn't we at least try to encourage our children to aspire to a healthy, principled life? Messages like the above, along with violent games and brutal stories are available everywhere. Not only; they are practically imposed upon everybody's attention (especially teenagers') by the many ways the media use to reach (and lure) huge audiences. The title of the old movie "It's A Mad, Mad...World" could be changed today into "It's A Sad, Sad...World".
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