Alexia Villaseñor
La Jornada newspaper
Monday, February 10, 2025, p. 17
Although youth is a answer, currently the big causes have been diluted and are now connected with more personal problems that many times have to do with identity, but those who are hardly given continuity, academics of the Faculty of Sciences said of the Faculty of Sciences Policies and Social (FCPYS) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
They specified that after the pandemic, the lack of certainties increased disinterest, and the modality of protest on social networks has changed the dynamics of going to the streets because they are subject to Funas (teasing).
For Héctor Quintanar, professor of this faculty, there is a kind of apathy that is not due to the absence of political ideologies, but responds to a kind of resignation: What do I oppose and why do I fight, if there is nothing to fight?
Without disregarding the issues of rights on identity, he said, there is currently an inertia to consider that the identity is above the community, so it is thought of immediate individual and no longer collective, where the aspect of the organization. However, he stressed, the collective aspect entails a minimum of assignment and sacrifice and where more things can be achieved.
Meanwhile, for Professor Carlos Sánchez and Sánchez, youth are more connected with personal problems. They are more concerned with their emotional well -being, but they have not managed to connect with what we were used to the big movements
. The feminist struggle within the FCPYS, which has achieved immediate progress but does not give them continuity.
Now with the networks, he said, the fight is further decentralized, “people protest, get angry, fight from digital platforms and question if it is worth going out, if there are incentives, so mobilizations are getting smaller and smaller .
While the person does not see that the issue really relates to their identity or their particular problems, it will be difficult for the incentives to participate; This is why the protests are very focused.
In relation to identity policy based on specific needs, mainly emotional, psychologist Iraís Tapia said youth are giving greater weight to their mental health, but must see beyond the short -term benefit, because If you receive immediate relief without seeing what is really kind to you in every way and not only in this gratification, there is a risk of staying in a certain vicious circle
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Meanwhile, young university students pointed out that there is interest in social demands, but prioritize their physical and mental well -being, so they choose why protest, at what time and how to do it. For many times, they said, the wear We choose the means and moments of raising the voice
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