{"id":28780,"date":"2017-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/youth-becoming-protest-voters-aspen-review-cafe\/"},"modified":"2017-05-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:00","slug":"youth-becoming-protest-voters-aspen-review-cafe","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/youth-becoming-protest-voters-aspen-review-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Becoming Protest Voters \u2013 Aspen Review Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Aspen Review Caf\u00e9 series<\/strong>\u00a0this time focused on the topic of the extremism of the young<\/b>. We\u00a0introduced the new issue of Aspen Review CE entitled Generation Lost & Found<\/a>. Two distinguished guests accepted our invitation to take part in a discussion on May 24, 2017 at Brno<\/strong>: O\u013ega Gy\u00e1rf\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1<\/a>\u00a0(Comenius University in Bratislava; author of the article in new Aspen Review CE) and Michal Va\u0161e\u010dka<\/a> (Masaryk University, Brno). The debate was chaired by Ji\u0159\u00ed Schneider<\/a> (ACE).<\/p>\n

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The guests spoke about the causes of the rise of the radicalism among young people in Slovakia and\u00a0the impact of education on the choices of young voters. We discussed the lack of political alternatives to the extremist parties, the role of internet, online communication and the family.<\/p>\n

Referring to her article in the latest issue<\/a> of the quarterly, O\u013ega Gy\u00e1rf\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1 pointed out that 23% of first-time voters in Slovakia were voting the extremist party.<\/p>\n

Young people don\u2019t have an alternative, so they are becoming \u2018protest voters\u2019. The worst is the communication emptiness, when no one speaks about the matter and only social networks are taken into account.
\n\u2013 O\u013ega Gy\u00e1rf\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The schools are failing to cultivate a civil society as even some teachers support radical ideologies. In most families politics is not discussed today and as a consequence young voters tend to search the information on the Internet. According to Gy\u00e1rf\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1, the communication on social networks leads to even deeper polarization of a society that is already polarized.<\/p>\n

Youth breaking old rules, but not creating new?<\/h1>\n

Michal Va\u0161e\u010dka emphasized the importance of the socialization within the family. He agrees that the lack of solid school system has a negative impact on the young generation. Va\u0161e\u010dka\u00a0added that in comparison with Czechs, the Slovak youngsters have worse education results. They also do not perform well even in digital literacy.<\/p>\n

The young people want to break the established rules, but the question is whether they want to build something new? \u2013 Michal Va\u0161e\u010dka<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For young people there is no one to vote for; even the society does not have a positive vision. \u201cA\u00a0positive mobilization element is missing<\/i>,\u201d added O\u013ega Gy\u00e1rf\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1. Also, the prestige of the Parliament as an important place for discussion with the civil society has to be increased.<\/p>\n

Closing the discussion, our guests also underlined the importance of rejecting extremism. We should also focus on fostering\u00a0the institutions dealing with radicalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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