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MR. HUI:

DRAFT SPEECH BY HOM HUI

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 11.5.88-

Motion Debate on Report S Youth Poli

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I join my colleagues in discussing an urgent issue which Hong Kong has taken for granted for so long. hope that this debate may galvanise the Government in out a youth policy which is the panacea for our long standing youth problem.

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Growing up in an affluent society, the youths of Hong Kong today face great social conflicts and challenges that make them materialistic, opportunistic, superficial and

progress aimless, lacking the Aubis of the older generation. Our young people come under pressures from study, examinations and work, largely neglecting the moral, civic and sex education, and

Addicted to the demonstrating inadequate language skills. electronic media, few of our youngsters today take part in voluntary work, wanting in political and social awareness. have therefore a profile of Hong Kong's youth being an individual of unbalanced growth, instead of an all-round, mature, responsible citizen. True, Hong Kong has been spared the burden of modern hippies roaming the streets of western countries, or student rebels confronting the police with petition placards; but the fact that we have in our midst a lost generation who appear perfectly normal to us is far more

threatening.

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What have we done with our unique cultural heritage, apart from frowning with indignation or pointing an accusing finger at youth today? Have parents tried to help their teenage children to cope with the frustrations of adolescence, or have they simply left the task entirely to the schools? Have our education programmes considered the creative needs of

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