Singapore and China's youth culture

Singapore's youth culture

China's youth culture

This montage is about the representation of Singapore's youth culture and what we think about China's youth culture. The following is a brief write up of the different youth cultures, with elaborations to emphasize their similarities or differences.

SINGAPORE YOUTH CULTURE - First off, something significant that the youths of today do is definitely the usage of electronic gadgets or devices. It is hard for one to come across a youth that has never used them. The usage of electronic devices ranges widely, but the basic applications most Singaporeans would use are definitely Whatsapp (communication) and Facebook (social media). The apps we use in Singapore are mostly English based, meaning it came from the western part of the world and the languages used are mainly English. Next, most of the youths are extremely law-abiding, since Singapore's law is extremely strict and dire consequences are to be faced if one was to go against it. The youths have grown up being taught to follow the law, since the government has the ability to control each and every one in Singapore if they did wrong. Finally, it is the amount of stress we have. An average Singaporean youth, although faces a considerate amount of stress, it is measly compared to the amount of stress an average China youth faces. This reflects our country's education system and the competition rate. Although, we can always safely say that both country's youths' parents want the best for their child so that they will be able to survive in the workforce next time with a stable lifestyle.

CHINA YOUTH CULTURE (our perception) - Youths of China mostly uses electronic gadgets too, but in comparison with Singapore, the applications they use are extremely different. Their basic applications used for communication and as their form of social media is all Chinese based, mainly coming from China itself, e.g Weibo and Wechat. Since China is big with a big population, and their law is different and less strict compared to ours, most youths might do things that are perceived as illegal in Singapore, but not in China, for example the buying of cigarettes under 18 years old. There is practically no law in such a big country, if we can say that. They grow up thinking what they do is absolutely correct, as it is okay in China. Finally, they definitely face more stress than us. Most of the youth are the only child in their family, since the one child policy was only abolished recently. All hopes are placed on one child, and with the amount of people in China, competition is very high.

In a nutshell, the above concludes the differences between the youth culture of China and Singapore. One of the rare similarities between the two countries youth culture is that their parents have high expectations for their children and hope they do well.