Talking One on One by Mollie Beth Rice
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FYI: African youth query American teenager
Examples of questions posed from African teenagers to an American teenager::
- What is your educational system like?
- What is a typical teenager's relationship with his/her parents?
- Why do students get jobs when they are still in school? [NOTE: In Ghana, as in other African countries, majority of students do not get/have jobs until they have finished high school]
- Why is age 18 considered adulthood, and then sometimes these teenagers get "kicked out" of home?
- Why do most youths (generally) not like to hear about Jesus and God's Word?
- Why are there shootings in America?
- Where and how do kids obtain illegal things such as weapons and drugs?
- Why do they use alcohol and drugs, and abuse their bodies?
- Why do they do something just because someone else says "it's cool" (i.e. peer pressure)?
- Why are there no standards for premarital sex, and teen pregnancy?
- Why are people OK (or seem OK) with homo/bi-sexuality?
- What is the deal with racism?
- Why do families fall apart?
- Why can't the government do something about this, and other things such as sexually transmitted diseases?
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