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My group and I are very interested in focusing our Wikipedia project on the cultural differences of adolescence that are projected in the media. Looking more in depth, we are going to try to see if adolescence in general is just a Westernized cultural thing.


 * This is a great idea! I'm going to email you an article by Arnett (secondary source) and perhaps others that may be especially helpful. Drewdeecopp (talk) 21:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

We are going to focus on whether or not the media has an effect on the adolescent period in the United States and what other cultures consider normal for their citizens going through that age period as well. The media and internet alone portray one thing to be normal for all children around the ages of 13-20 but in fact there are huge differences in expectations between many cultures. Is there even a time in other cultures life span that is considered a time between childhood and adulthood or are those both intertwined to make for a seamless transition?


 * I would recommend that a good portion of your contribution talks about adolescence being different in different cultural communities. The point about media seems related to *why*; first we need to know *that* there are differences. The "that there are differences" point is a little more in line with Wikipedia as an encyclopedia. Drewdeecopp (talk) 21:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

On the Wikipedia page “Adolescence” there is a media section so we were hoping to contribute a paragraph on how other cultures are not represented in that data and how just western cultures are generalized in the information stated above. We may want to add another paragraph at another point in the article about how adolescence in general can be viewed as strictly a Westernized culture thing and may not even gain the same attention in cultures in other parts of the world.


 * The last part of this is great. However, pointing out that there is no non-Western cultural information in the media section (without providing it yourselves) is a conversation to take up on the Talk Page rather than the main page. Drewdeecopp (talk) 21:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

We have not found many secondary sources regarding this topic but we were hoping to speak with you in class to discuss the articles you mentioned to us or if some sources we have found are considered secondary (Jll1014 (talk) 14:29, 2 April 2018 (UTC))


 * See email for 3! Drewdeecopp (talk) 21:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)