Problems facing young people in Germany

Hi people!

I'm doing German A Level in the UK and I need to know what problems young people have in Germany! I really need your help!

Thank you!

Another word for "young people" is "teenagers", and when I searched for "teenagers" I got this recent thread:

Discussion about teenagers in Germany

from what I've gathered from my students... pretty much the same problems as teenagers in the US. fitting in, dating, keeping up in school, getting along with their parents, etc. I think the younger ones may have added pressure to do well in school as they are tracked into one of three levels after fourth grade and can be moved up or down depending on their performance.

... but then, i work in one of the most well off parts of the most well off city in Germany... I'm sure there are young people in other places, especially in the east, who have different challenges and problems.

Possibly whether to spit or swallow.

You could try asking on a forum where mostly Germans post - if you're doing A-Level German, the language should be no barrier.

I was in a shop yesterday where a pack of youths were having a bit of a hard time buying cigarettes, as they were under 16.

finding a job I would imagine

inheriting war guilt perhaps

Should they have to? Should my daughter, half-German/half-American, inherit war guilt 70 years after WWII began? Is she only half-guilty? Is she allowed to feel half-liberated/half-liberator?
The only thing German kids should inherit is the knowledge of what happened and the responsibility for not letting it happen again - in Germany or anywhere else for that matter.
Edit: Sorry, 67 years after the beginning, 70 years since the Nürnberg Laws.

She can either adhere to the post WWII vibe and feel really guilty for what happened back then with a little joy at having been on the liberating side or alternatively she can cling to a Bush-era vibe and feel guilty for all the shit that's going on now and have a smidgeon of the modern-day German thing to balance that out. Either way, she be fucked. Probably best to do what most Americans do these days when they have a mixed history. Claim to be part Irish and only tell people about that bit. Claim to be Irish protestant though or some other religion because as an Irish Catholic you get to feel guilty for absolutely everythintg.

did I say they have to? If you had read various other threads about Germans and the war following them you would see that I'm a champion of the present generation not having too feel bad about it and not having to accept people teasing them about it.

Doesn't mean that some or many of them don't feel that way though. Certainly many in my age group still feel some kind of uncomfortable feeling just by saying they are from Germany - I assume that feeling isn't completely absent from the young generation of today.

Whether they should or not is irrelevant - I'm sure some of them do (even though they shouldn't have to) - which was surely the point of the question.

The don't face anything like this: Boy, 8, shoots girl, 7, at U.S. day care

Erfurt massacre

I agree though that its probably unlikely an 8 year old would have a loaded weapon in his school bag!

What do they talk about on the S-bahn in the morning on the way to school?
Mostly what the answers to the homework was, can I copy yours before we get there, and if there is time, then its what happened on TV last night or who is seeing who.
Much the same as the UK I would guess.

Me Mam's name is Kathleen Donnelly
But on topic: My daughter is facing everyone teenager's problems - getting a good education in spite of a rotten system, getting a job that earns her keep (and maybe more), being a decent person without letting others trample all over her.