According to the UN, youth is a stage that begins at age 15 and extends until age 25.
The concept of youth , a term that derives from the Latin word iuventus , identifies the period between childhood and adulthood . The United Nations Organization (known as the UN ) has defined youth as the stage that begins at 15 and lasts until 25 years of life for every human being , although there are no precise limits in this regard. Greater life expectancies mean that, in certain aspects, 40-year- olds are considered young.
In youth, the individual is developed on a sexual level but still lacks the emotional maturity that is required to face the conflicts of adult life. Adulthood, therefore, is a state that is reached thanks to life experience.
Youth as a social group
Youth constitute a heterogeneous social group where each subgroup wishes to differentiate itself from the rest and from adults . Young people seek to develop a sense of belonging and, therefore, they group with their peers.
In this sense, given this need for identification and differentiation at the same time, it is important to emphasize that it is common for young people to decide to belong to certain groups based on their aesthetics or their beliefs. Thus, for example, we find Catholic youth groups, socialist groups or various urban tribes.
Among those, based basically on the type of behavior or tastes as well as on clothing, we find the youth who are part of the tribes of heavies, posh, rappers, goths, hippies, rockers or mods.
Youth is a heterogeneous social group.
Its representation in the cinema
Cinema, like other artistic fields, has given an important role to youth. Thus, we find a large number of films that approach this vital stage from various points of view not only to discover it but also to show the worst and the best of it.
Among the most interesting productions about that is, for example, The Dead Poets Club . Peter Weir was the one who directed it in 1989, which revolves around a literature class, his students and their teacher who tries to teach them that they must fight for their dreams and that they must live in the present in the best way possible.
Friendship, loyalty and the talent that resides in each young person are, for their part, the values around which another film about youth revolves. This is Discovering Forrester , from 2000, which stars Sean Connery and Rob Brown, who play a retired writer who will selflessly serve as a teacher for a young man with great literary talent who is prevented by the social conditions in which he lives. develop that one.
Youth as a state or initial stage
The idea of youth is generally used to name both the group of young people and the state of the young person. For example: "Youth is lost, every day there are more drugs and alcohol on the streets" , "I was a great soccer player during my youth" , "My uncle advised me to enjoy my youth because later come obligations and responsibilities" .
Other uses of the concept refer to the initial times of a certain thing ( "The Milky Way, in its youth, was not stable" ), to energy or vigor ( "My father is seventy years old but he shows his youth at all the parties. : never stops dancing» ) and to the youth branch of some political or social organization ( «The communist youth will organize its tenth national congress during the next month» ).