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Teen dream - the mall phenomenon
Shops, cinemas, bargains, the upbeat music bouncing off the tiles and the smell of roast chicken drifting from the food court – all that you can find at the sprawling and gleaming shopping centres. It’s no wonder that nowadays more and more teenagers are deciding to spend their free time exactly there. By most accounts, such a solution is a bad idea. Are they right?
According to the statistics, almost 76% of British teenagers spend their free time in the shopping centres. We also asked some of the young people hanging out in the malls about it. For Tobias (15) – the student one of the middle school, the shopping malls are a way to overcome the boredom. “I often come here with friends” – he says. “After school or at the weekends when we have nothing to do at home.” Anastasia (18) explains: “It’s a place, where we can do not only the shopping, we can meet our friends, talk or gossip.”
Gathering of young people in shopping malls looks as 'doing nothing' for an outside observer. But to my mind, it seems that it’s a way of being together, part of building group identity. In this function, the malls have replaced yards and streets. For sure such a solution is better than playing computer games all days.
All of this leads me to the conclusion that such a solution is justified. Teenagers have already adapted to the malls, and fighting against this way of spending leisure time may be ineffective.