COMMENT 21
COMMENT 21
Are you already an adult or still a teenager? ...or even perhaps still a child?
In Spain as in other countries at the age of 18 you are considered an adult. Nevertheless, this is different in other countries. For example at the age of 21 you are considered an adult in New York, on the contrary, in Africa you are considered adult at the age of 13. There is a lot of difference between these ages but in every part of the world they have different customs and their own culture. However, not everyone has the maturity needed to be an adult at the age indicated in each country. That is to say that a person with 17 years old could be more adult than a person with 20 years old.
On the one hand, it is necessary to set an age to consider someone as an adult, because there are things such as voting or buying certain products that only adults can do. It is very difficult to measure the maturity of each one and for this reason an average is taken in each country to determine adulthood.
On the other hand, I think that the age of majority should not be due to age but to majority. It is a long process to become an adult and you don’t wake up one morning and you are mature enough to be an adult. Moreover, everyone has different lives and each has had different experiences. For example a person who has had to live alone for a while or a person who has travelled around the world and has had to communicate in another language has more maturity than a person who has not travelled or has not lived alone.
We can add that in many situations when a teenager is talking, adults or even old people think that there are some topics that they cannot talk about such as politics or problems around the world and they say ‘you cannot talk about it, you are too young’ or ‘you know nothing about it yet’ and they don’t let us explain our point of view.
To put all in a nutshell, maturity is something that you acquire with time and you cannot think that if you are adut you can shut up the thoughts of teenagers. In my opinion each one must know the level of maturity they have and be patient if you are under age.
On the one hand, it is necessary to set an age to consider someone as an adult, because there are things such as voting or buying certain products that only adults can do. It is very difficult to measure the maturity of each one and for this reason an average is taken in each country to determine adulthood.
On the other hand, I think that the age of majority should not be due to age but to majority. It is a long process to become an adult and you don’t wake up one morning and you are mature enough to be an adult. Moreover, everyone has different lives and each has had different experiences. For example a person who has had to live alone for a while or a person who has travelled around the world and has had to communicate in another language has more maturity than a person who has not travelled or has not lived alone.
We can add that in many situations when a teenager is talking, adults or even old people think that there are some topics that they cannot talk about such as politics or problems around the world and they say ‘you cannot talk about it, you are too young’ or ‘you know nothing about it yet’ and they don’t let us explain our point of view.
To put all in a nutshell, maturity is something that you acquire with time and you cannot think that if you are adut you can shut up the thoughts of teenagers. In my opinion each one must know the level of maturity they have and be patient if you are under age.
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