In the past, young people depended too much on their parents to make decisions for them; today young people are better able to make decisions about their own lives.

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Parents
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have
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on their
children
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decision
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when
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young.
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, I think that
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level of influence has decreased over the years and now young
people
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are more independent when making decisions. I will explain why I feel
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way in the
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paragraphs. The
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point I would like to make is that now young
people
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are exposed to worldwide
information
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on the Internet. Because of
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increased access to
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,
parents
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are no longer the only
information
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resource that youth have.
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, in the past without
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exposure,
parents
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used to be the main influence on their children’s decisions. Now, when young
people
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have a doubt, they could just search on the Internet about the topic to learn about and see
opinions
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the opinions
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of different
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around the world. The
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thought I would like to point out is that globalization and easy ways of transportation
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helped
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young
people
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to change their mindset about life. Let me illustrate
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with an example, when my
parents
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were young it was not easy to travel to different countries because ways of transport were not as
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and fast as nowadays.
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, they
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to different cultures and backgrounds.
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, my generation can travel
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distances and different countries by planes,
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and trains
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. To summarize, I agree that nowadays young
people
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are better able to make decisions about their own lives than in the past. As I mentioned before
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exposure
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Internet
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the Internet
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and new transportation ways has helped them to acquire and be exposed to different
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that they take into consideration when they want to take a decision.+-
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