A recent study analyzed data about 14,000 college students collected over 30 years. The shocking findings: today’s college students are 40 percent lower in empathy than students from 20 or 30 years ago.
Read Empathy: College students don’t have as much as they used to, on Newswise.com.
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I scored 82.9%.
The thing about South American prisons is that you can BUY anything, even safety there, if you have money and mommie I bet is going to send him some bucks. It is in some ways the same in US prisons, prisoners with money either legally on the books to buy stuff with, can “hire” anything from their laundry done to a big guy to protect them, or with smuggled stuff or money inside the prison.
There is a whole underground economy going on in prisons in US including cigarretes, drugs, money, cell phones and weapons, and in South America there is as well, only bigger and more easily done! So while “Pablo” might have a bad tiime in prison in Peru if his family couldn’t support him financially, I think UNFORTUNATELY, Joran’s family will be shoveling the money to keep him safe and in reasonable comfort.
The Ameican woman (for get her name) that spent 13 years in Peru for terrorisist activities even married in prison and had a son during “visits” from her husband, they allowed her to keep the kid and she also got some state of the art back surgery. She was given parole recently though she must stay in Peru until she finishes her 20 year sentence. My guess is that she will skip the country, maybe not, but could be done I imagine. Her parents are professors of some college in US.
So for those prisoners who have money in prison, life is not all that bad, for those without funds, it is pretty bad. That is why it was important to me to cut off my son’s access to funds in prison. Well, maybe if I can’t cut the funds off he can at least spend them all in the prison commissary and not out on the street.
Jeepers, OxD – makes it sound like Club Med! I would have thought that a South American prison would be horrible!!!
Oh, great – so, Vanderbloat is going to be rewarded for committing murder??? oh, yay (gag)
What a fascinating survey. Though not at all surprising in the least. I had a job teaching 13 to 15 year olds. It was fascinating to watch and somewhat strange primarily for the fact I felt a certain distance existed between each student (and groups of teenagers). Once the class was over, mobiles, ipods aloft. There was such a distraction that the very innocence of verbal interaction seemed less important. I remarked this with a colleague of a similar age if he felt this is now how we were at uni. He agreed the stark difference i young adults. I remember beign part of a group in a mixed school (boys/girls), the school was subdivided into hundreds of little ‘families’ as it were. All we had was conversations to exchange, not an electronic gadget in sight, just mini human relationships! It’s interesting I spent more time with boys than girls. I admit and this may sting, i found boys way funnier.
A former professor of mine and I became good friends and she had earned a psych degree with an art minor. We would often converse about how different kids are, today, as opposed to when we were kids.
There is a distinct absence of human interaction – simple, verbal interaction. Today, kids romance, sex themselves up, and break up relationships via some form of technology; computer or text messaging.
The complete lack of empathy that I experienced the second time around in college has caused serious concern. Everthing that young adults do, nowadays, is excused by one label or another. Broken home. Abusive parent(s). Family alcoholism. ADD/ADHD. ANY label will suffice, it seems.
I grew up in an alcoholic home and experienced all of the traumas associated with it. But, why is it that I can still feel remorse, shame, empathy, and a strong sense of what’s “right” and what’s “wrong,” while young adults today don’t even seem interested in anything, at all? I’ve seen young adults laugh, literally, while one kid was beating up on another kid on campus.
Nah, not club med by any means, but money talks for sure in or out of prison. They limit the AMOUNT of money american prisoners can spend per month in AMERICAN prisons but not in Latino ones. Very rich drug lords in prison in mexico can buy anything they want from women, booze, drugs and even escape if the money is good.
The only thing that Joran van der path has done that might give him some special “treatment” not avaialbe otherwise is he killed a girl in Peru whose father is POWERFUL. That may get him some solitrary confinement or other thing he may not enjoy, or possibly even cost him his life in prison by being stabbed by some UNKNOWN prisoner who is never identified. Who knows?
I do know though that MONEY is necessary in any prison in the world to help you survive, and survive in the most comfort possible.
Yes, two sides to every story. OR the other kicker is “there is a grain of truth to every story”.
Well a grain of truth is nothing but that. A grain. People get the mixed-up notion that the “grain” is the whole truth, NO it is nothing but a grain.
And, “two sides to every story”. This does not apply when one person is taking advantage of the other.
And, the votes are coming from college kids? How about taking the votes from people who have experienced it?
No offense college students. Hopefully you will run our country well.
nowhere else to bring this, so i bring it here.
the last few weeks of pain and fatigue have been frightening and grueling. my brain is in a fog. it goes with the fibro, but i have never had it so bad in the 20 years i have been chronically ill.
i see how the change in chemistry has taken me down. i am smacked sideways in the mood department (and please, don’t talk meds for depression to me – that is not the answer and I am beyond tired hearing it), and i am so angry – my fuse is extremely short. anything that feels like rejection sends flares of anger through me. i have to close my mouth and not say a word. i have no diplomacy left in me.
i know it’s not the time to keep people in my life who are not able to really be in my life, and i also know that it is a good idea to not burn any bridges with acquaintances. I think i need to let some people go – people who have been closer to me. and it is hard, but i just need to. and the acquaintances – well, i don’t seem to have a lot of tolerance for shallow right now. and even though i completely understand the value of less important social relationships I CANNA DO IT RIGHT NOW. There are people i know i my small area who i tolerate. who i don’t like or trust – but they are ‘contacts’ and it is a small place…so no throwing of flame throwers.
‘cept i really wanna torch something. anything? everything? the ppath? is that WHY i wanna whack others? because i don’t get to whack the ppath. god, i hate that woman.
am i wanting to torch things ’cause everything is going down in flames anyway? think if i hold the match i have some control?
it all feels big and dramatic and somehow important.
maybe i am paying too much attention to the small stuff.
i put a disc out in my neck. have been blinded with pain. even my eyes are swollen.
whatever exists – please hear me now. i need some gentle and tender things. some people to listen, to hear. hugs. people to help me get my place in order to rent. a job. some vitamins, some bodywork. to see my mom. my taxes reassessed SOON, the brain fog to lift.
Interesting perspective sistersister,
I think it really depends on the situation. Not just in terms of strictness/indulgence, but what happened before and what happens after. If a divorce removes a P from a child’s life, it will have a different impact than if it introduces a P into a child’s life, for example. Etc. Etc.
In any case, teenagers are less crime prone than in the past, according to this link.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/offage.cfm
I am curious as to how generational changes will translate in the business world, in marriages, etc. – Areas they haven’t really had much experience in yet. Gen Y characteristics haven’t led to crime increases, for example, and they are at what is the traditional peak criminal age. Ultimately those things matter more than answers on empathy and narcissism questionnaires. I scored 56/70, 80% or 70th percentile for a 25 year old female.