After listening to the podcast “Generation Next”, we can see some similarities and differences between American’s and Iraqi’s youth. The new generation especially people between 18-24 are more engaged in politics as mentioned in the podcast, similarly Iraqi’s adults are focusing on politics more than the previous generations. Iraqi’s youth are more active and trying to catch up with the political and economical changes that happening around the world. They care more about political situation in Iraq and they want to make Iraq a free country and more democratic. It is a fact that Americans have been using technology for a long time before Iraqis like internet services and cell phones. But Iraqis youth also took advantages of the technology even though it was a new thing for them. They got benefit from social networking to share their ideas and keep their friendship strong. Iraqis youth, unlike Americans, are actively targeting the way their government is formed and how politics is going on after the chaos of 2003.
They provide them internet services and some kinds of developed services like i-chat for video conferences. So, the young generation are able to talk to the politicians and people that they could not meet them. Through these services youths can ask politician whatever they want.
