GetInNepal

A teenage girl from Westlake Village, California, USA; Sarah got this opportunity to travel to Nepal and study the life of Nepalese teenagers. She quickly realizes that her middle class house in California was like a mansion and her regular toys: cell-phone, credit card and a car were high end luxury while comparing them with her peers in Nepal. It is indeed a painful truth that even the capital city of the country has to undergo several hours of forceful power outages; let alone the fact that a large part of the population is still out of electricity. With high unemployment and continuous political unrest, teenagers have hard time visualizing a bright future.

But Sarah remarkably identifies an important aspect of the Nepalese culture: social-binding. She is able to see the kids growing with a strong family care and support. She realizes how much US teenagers face depression and lack of social upbringing: some of which have harsh effects on their future ability, personality and career as well as long-term physical and mental disabilities.

Nepali people deeply respect their elders and love their young ones. Sarah says she does not even know the full names of her next door neighbors. But in Nepal, people have a good community indulgence. They spend good time with themselves and their family and not get “crushed by stress of commercialism, corporate greed and a constant pressure to get ahead without time for themselves”.

This is an emotionally touching analysis by a young teenager. I was really impressed by her video presentation.

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