rticular tend to fall under the spell of Western cultural influences as such behaviors and attitudes are widely transmitted through music, videos, and films from the West that both appeal to an target adolescents in Asian cultures. Werther (1996) observed that "rock 'n roll has had a much more pervasive impact than even its harshest critics of the 1950s could imagine. Music has served as the battle cry of each post-World War II generation. More impressively, it has become a global language uniting successive generations from Santiago to Miami, Beijing to Moscow, in a common perspective that says: 'Authority figures are stupid. From parents and police to teachers and timekeepers, they all cling to the outdated and the outmoded'" (p. 4).
Technology has served as the vehicle for the most effective transmission of this message across cultures, as the dictum that the "'authority figure is wrong' shows up as the central theme of many films aimed at the movie-going youth of the world. Whether in the cinemas of the world's ci
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