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The boys and girls are sitting in a semicircle, they are between fifteen and eight years old, they belong to the middle class, and this afternoon they have become our advisory group to understand what television programs they watch, what topics interest them, if they feel, or not, heard by adults. No topic is foreign to them despite the fact that, as they tell us, adults decide not to discuss certain topics with them as beings capable of dialogue and understanding the crises that Mexican families are experiencing due to social and political violence, economic imbalances, to growing violence within the family. Girls and boys from all over the country have a lot in common; those who live in cities or belong to indigenous groups that live in the countryside have very similar ideas about the absence of strength in adults. A particular topic unites us in these intergenerational dialogue meetings: at what point in life does a young person with ethical solidity choose the path of corruption? Why is it that a student who demonstrated solid principles and values a few years after leaving university gets a good job, for example, in public service, and suddenly chooses to be part of the problem and not the solution.
Girls and boys under eighteen years of age maintain a hypothesis: adults are in a constant state of stress, they receive systematic blows to their economy, they live America Mobile Number List time and again experiences of injustice that, no matter how small they may seem, leave traces that They weaken them emotionally, which turns them into cynical, ambitious beings, and cynics don't care what happens to the people around them as long as they and their close circle have everything they want. children-2 Do you believe then that adults who suffer so much give up? Yes, girls and boys reply in chorus in affirmative. Furthermore, they say, they become distrustful and selfish. Yes, says one boy, they become corrupt out of selfishness; They choose only to think about themselves and not about the consequences that their own actions have on other people. An eight-year-old boy, in a previous session, defined his personal vision of justice: “if I give a cookie to José and half a cookie to Juan, that is wrong. I have to give the same to both of them because if I don’t, I create injustice.
Another little Tzotzil from Chiapas defined politicians as people who have a job in which they must improve people's lives but instead of doing so they decide to steal, lie and do their job poorly. They talk about the Green party, I ask them if that is what they or their fathers and mothers think. I think that, says a Tzeltal girl with a confident voice, those from the Green party just came to promise us school, supplies, water, electricity. He just became governor and we continue the same. These girls and boys, unlike the first group, study in the mornings and work in the market in family stalls to support their economy. All of them talk about the existence of graves, about forced disappearances, they can explain kidnapping with almost the same precision as football. They see realistic superheroes with flaws and virtues, they rescue unprotected pets and many of them believe that sometimes they must rescue their parents from the overwhelming negativity that steals their joy. No matter their social, racial or economic origin, girls and boys refuse to participate in the emotional disappointment that causes hopelessness, that which the adults around them spill daily in front of the attentive ears of their sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces, or students. Perhaps this Mexico at war, where death and crime are a topic of conversation, is unknowingly raising a generation resilient to horror. A generation that knows that it has rights, that really knows it.
Girls and boys under eighteen years of age maintain a hypothesis: adults are in a constant state of stress, they receive systematic blows to their economy, they live America Mobile Number List time and again experiences of injustice that, no matter how small they may seem, leave traces that They weaken them emotionally, which turns them into cynical, ambitious beings, and cynics don't care what happens to the people around them as long as they and their close circle have everything they want. children-2 Do you believe then that adults who suffer so much give up? Yes, girls and boys reply in chorus in affirmative. Furthermore, they say, they become distrustful and selfish. Yes, says one boy, they become corrupt out of selfishness; They choose only to think about themselves and not about the consequences that their own actions have on other people. An eight-year-old boy, in a previous session, defined his personal vision of justice: “if I give a cookie to José and half a cookie to Juan, that is wrong. I have to give the same to both of them because if I don’t, I create injustice.
Another little Tzotzil from Chiapas defined politicians as people who have a job in which they must improve people's lives but instead of doing so they decide to steal, lie and do their job poorly. They talk about the Green party, I ask them if that is what they or their fathers and mothers think. I think that, says a Tzeltal girl with a confident voice, those from the Green party just came to promise us school, supplies, water, electricity. He just became governor and we continue the same. These girls and boys, unlike the first group, study in the mornings and work in the market in family stalls to support their economy. All of them talk about the existence of graves, about forced disappearances, they can explain kidnapping with almost the same precision as football. They see realistic superheroes with flaws and virtues, they rescue unprotected pets and many of them believe that sometimes they must rescue their parents from the overwhelming negativity that steals their joy. No matter their social, racial or economic origin, girls and boys refuse to participate in the emotional disappointment that causes hopelessness, that which the adults around them spill daily in front of the attentive ears of their sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces, or students. Perhaps this Mexico at war, where death and crime are a topic of conversation, is unknowingly raising a generation resilient to horror. A generation that knows that it has rights, that really knows it.