Nowadays leisure industry is becoming more and more influential, heavily affecting our mentality and behavior, and children and youngsters often appears to be an unprotected target of violent films, cartoons and TV programs. Unfortunately, young people without well-developed critical thinking sometimes turn this violence to real life, creating danger for themselves and for other people. The observed growth of car crashes occurred because of young driver's violations proves this socially dangerous process.
The problem of consumer culture and modern environment industry influence on children’s mentality is broad and topical. It is obvious that some deviations from the normal standard behavior such as violence, racism and other are connected with popular culture effect. Young people are not able to filter incoming information and analyze things critically, they tend to just imitate someone’s behavior. That is why when they become drivers, they unintentionally try to copy what they have seen so often on TV or in Internet: chases, aggressive style of driving, crashes, etc.
However, I am convinced that there are lot of ways how to solve this problem. First of all, I think that some kinds of psychological tests should be included in exam for driver’s license. This measure will help our society to make sure that all the drivers are free from negative intentions. What is more, it would be a good idea to make more advertisement that would explain youngsters the responsibility of being a driver. They should clearly understand that human’s life could become a price of their errors. Except of these particular steps, some general measures should become a part of government policy. For example, special agency or committee should carefully check all the films for youngsters. Furthermore, I suppose that some kinds of fees should be introduced for these film companies that use scenes of violence and indecent behavior in their films.
In conclusion, adults should take into consideration that they are role models for young people. That is why they are partially responsible for all the accidents and crimes made by youngsters. In order to prevent the damage for our society we should thoroughly control products of popular culture that affect our children.