Debate topic " Today's children are not fashion victims "
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Today's children are fashion victims
Good morning everyone present. I feel immensely privileged to have got the opportunity to express my views on ‘Today's children are fashion victims’; I am going to speak against the motion.
I strongly differ with my knowledgeable opponents who have put forward long arguments supporting that today’s children are fashion victims. I don’t see any truth in it.
Children are not fashion victims; only the elders think so. Children have to wear clothes and follow the modern trends, they are not very particular about fashion. If they were fashion victims, would India be progressing? All the latest reports by World Bank, IMF, and other progress monitoring agencies have declared India to be progressing at a pretty fast rate. Children have played a role in this progress.
The truth is the modern children are much smarter even than elders. They are whizkids. They are winning many coemptions at national and international events. Indian shooter Anish Bhanwala, who is just 15 years old, won a gold medal for India in shooting at Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast, Australia. There are many more such examples.
So I conclude my speech by saying that today’s children have not become fashion victims.
In regard to the topic mentioned above, the following debate is in the favor of the above statement, that yes, Today's children are not fashion victims.
As modernization and diffusion of cultures take place, the children of today have been exposed to all sorts of fashion. Fashion victims are those who have been following fashion styles indirectly by getting influenced. Who tend to follow popular fashions in a slave like manner. However now a days this isn't entirely true considering that children have been exposed. They look at everything and use their choice and liking and then follow whatever trend suits them. For instance, even now, gothic culture is popular among those who feel that they can relate to it.
Children choose to do those things which helps them express themselves. Indeed in developing countries where the culture is strict and roots are strongly tied with the children , some may face some difficulties in truly expressing themselves yet its still quite modernized now.
Fashion or having a sense of fashion isn't wrong even for children it's an outlet of creativity; however, the issue is that fashion is clubbed with low self esteem surrounded by the boundaries of status quo's.
How prone children are to becoming a fashion victim depends on the society and culture where the child is brought up. For instance if its lenient then the child will develop his/her own style and where there is strictness and influence, there the vice versa will happen. The perceptions also matter because Fashion means different things to different people. To a villager a girl in suit is fashionable however this scenario changes in the city.
In a small town a girl in jeans is fashionable in a town it's general clothing. In a city a girl in shorts is fashionable internationally it's the most worn piece.