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Under our “Quick Navigation” banner below, we have set up a new “World AIDS Day” section. We want to encourage you to participate in these activities that will be Webcast live around the globe on Friday, Dec. 1st and Saturday, Dec. 2nd:
1. Youth awareness events in 50 countries and across the U.S.
2. Major PeerCorps training sessions for you and your friends.
Join our effort and we will add your name and the photos of the events you are planning for all the world to see. Click here for Volunteer Form
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1. The U.S. Government’s CDC is now recommending that all teens, 13 and up, be tested regularly for HIV at your doctor’s office. Do you think this is a good idea?
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Teens, help Dr. John's research by taking the Short Survey. By completing the Long Survey in full, you receive a small gift from Dr. John and TeenAIDS.
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"My Super Sweet 16" TV show on MTV |
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Location: Blogs Dr. John's Personal Blog |
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| Posted by: host |
1/3/2006 |
Just when I thought that being totally self-centered and obnoxious was the purview of Hollywood publicity hounds, along comes a reality TV show from MTV, "My Super Sweet 16." If you haven't seen it yet (and only if the glow of the holiday season's feelings of charity and peace have worn off), catch this show. I find it appalling - but mesmerizing all the same.
Girls approaching their 16th birthdays are rewarded with lavish bashes by indulgent parents. By lavish, I mean hundreds of thousands of dollars for a party, not a mere $1,000 spent on graduation parties. Without blinking an eye, their adult guardians try to buy their way into their daughters' favors with Great Gatsby events. By all accounts on the show, they succeed. In every new episode, the girl whines that her Daddy or Mommy must do this for them or else (what will happen, I wonder?!) and the parent exclaims they would do it again (and again ad infinitum).
It's not a pretty sight. Oh, the girls can be sweet and very pretty. But, their attitudes suck bigtime. Folks, I want teens to have fun but this show is bizarre, sad, entertaining -- and a real money maker for MTV's ratings! What a brilliant reality TV concept as wealthy families compete to outperform past parties. However, where is any sense of proportion or charity? Wouldn't it be a grand gesture if these girls and their parents donated 10% of the outlay to an educational or charitable cause benefiting teens?
I want to point out that MTV does do HIV/AIDS public service ads and special programming to raise awareness about HIV prevention.
At Xmas Eve services on Saturday, a mother came up to me and said she was proud she had brought up her only son to want to volunteer at least some of his time to charitable causes. I know her son and he's a serious minded business major with an altruistic spirit. Contrasted with the young teens on "Super Sweet, etc.", our PeerCorps teens around the world (from wealthy, modest and poor backgrounds) show their true mettle through their volunteer actions as part of every individual's responsibility to their fellow humans. |
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