The Kids Are Angry

Anti-government demonstrators protest in Hong Kong. Photograph: Ümit Bektaş/Reuters

Simon Tisdall, The Guardian: About 41% of the global population are under 24. And they’re angry…

From Hong Kong to Chile, young people are rising up to fight injustice and inequality. Their elders should be grateful.

A spate of large-scale street protests around the world, from Chile and Hong Kong to Lebanon and Barcelona, is fuelling a search for common denominators and collective causes. Are we entering a new age of global revolution? Or is it foolish to try to link anger in India over the price of onions to pro-democracy demonstrations in Russia?

Each country’s protests differ in detail. But recent upheavals do appear to share one key factor: youth. In most cases, younger people are at the forefront of calls for change. The uprising that unexpectedly swept away Sudan’s ancien regime this year was essentially generational in nature.

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WNU Editor: Just imagine how this under 24 population will feel when they learn that they will have to pay off the global debt that we .... the older generation .... have built up over the decades. If they are mad now, they will be molten mad in a decade or two.

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