PDA - Public DIsplay of affection . Means public display affection between people of opposite sex, be it simple handholding to smooching to activities that can "pop" the mercury out of a thermometer bulb ! PDA is common in the west , much less in Asia , right ?
Just when we thought many of our teenage students are passive in class
, lo & behold !Passers-by were staring at them, yet these teens just carry on - never tekan brek as they say -keep embracing each other in a passionate lip-lock at the void deck of Block 212 Serangoon Avenue 4 at about 1.40pm on Sept 10.
Broad daylight, some more !
Passers-by watching , some more !
Hmm , what is our teens thinking nowadays ?
I have seen many more "dramas" elsewhere (by chance , that is! ) - at MRTs, buses . . . Orchard Road, beaches for instance , has become like a Hollywood PDA destination of choice for our teens.
Teens of all races , are now bolder & brazen enough to do it anywhere, anytime . Where goes the value of Asians' renowned heritage as a morally-behaving society ? Has western influence eroded our youths ? When their generation takes over from us .... I dread to think what will happen next !
Maybe our teens became "instant Americanised" through watching too much TV, medias, etc . Our teens modelled and copied American teens on TV to look & be COOOL . Boy . . . . are they in deep trouble .
WHat the teens here do not know is the REAL USA. Many parents in USA are still as reserved as us Asians. Many parents there share the same ideals as Asian parents. I know many of my friends in USA who makes sure their teenage sons & daughters behaved morally.
But then one person cannot change the world - I guess many teens follow the theme " If you can't beat them , join them !"
Sigh ! WHat can and should we do to rectify this , huh ?
Youngsters today are getting more intimate and they tend to show their affection through the wrong channel.The trend is becoming alarming as the kids are exposed to a western culture.
ReplyDeleteWow... I didn't know that the REAL USA are so conservative like us! I mean look at all the movies and videos coming from there. Guess the mass media doesn't really reflect and protray the real picture of their society to us. And to think that we are always associating the term liberal with the westerners typically the Americans.
ReplyDeletePerhaps our society will eventually even surpass them in this area given our 'kiasu' nature?