Guarding the growth of teenagers and saying 'no' to internet memes
2025-09-22
Recently, a middle school homeroom teacher in Chongqing posted a video on social media with the theme of "resisting bad internet memes entering schools". In the video, the teacher discovered that students were mocking their classmates with the word "Tang Ren". After discovering that the word had evolved into an internet meme insulting "Down syndrome", the teacher immediately sternly criticized and educated the students who used the word in the class. How to 'speak well'? In the digital information age, this proposition has many new extensions. The use of the Internet has long been a part of our daily life. In this context, many creative and contemporary network languages have emerged, enriching and activating our daily expression. However, behind many seemingly simple "jokes" and "humor", there may be hidden values that are discriminatory, backward, and aggressive. Once some internet slang and social codes spread across social circles, they can easily become language knives that undermine friendly communication and harmonious relationships, causing harm that cannot be underestimated. Among them, teenagers are particularly susceptible to being influenced by internet memes. From the perspective of language acquisition laws, a good language environment is crucial. Children are still in an important stage of forming their worldview, outlook on life, values, and personality development, and they themselves lack the ability to distinguish language application and the underlying ideological logic. When their daily communication is wrapped in layers of online language, the tree of vocabulary stops sprouting and branching; When there are only adjectives such as "6" and "Fengshen" left, verbs such as "roll" and "lie down" left, and emotions such as "emo" and "break defense" left, children lose the ability to accurately describe their own feelings and only have the conditioned reflex of "searching for memes, fitting memes, and losing memes". Furthermore, language is a tool for thinking, and a single word library can directly lead to cognitive collapse. Long term exposure to and use of internet memes with vague semantics, vulgar connotations, and empty and singular content will invisibly strengthen children's tagging and flattened thinking habits, causing their childlike curiosity and curious eyes to dissolve into consumable, mocking, and disposable fast-moving consumer symbols. From this perspective, the erosion of campus by internet memes has turned verbal bullying into fun and trends. This not only subtly leads to emotional apathy and a lack of empathy among teenagers, but may also trigger negative behaviors such as campus bullying, seriously distorting their values and affecting their growth, development, and mental health. Teenagers are the future of our country and the hope of our nation. It is urgent to resist internet memes and prevent them from eroding campuses. All sectors of society should pay enough attention to this issue, achieve cooperation between families, schools, and communities, and make efforts from multiple aspects to provide educational guidance and jointly build a "firewall" in daily life. On the one hand, schools, parents, and other organizations can use opportunities such as daily communication and classroom education to help children improve their critical thinking skills and distinguish between good and bad ideas. Parents should lead by example, quit their internet slang, and create a good family environment for their children. Schools should also focus on teaching the course of "Internet Language Literacy", by immersing themselves in classic reading materials, opening the door for young people to appreciate the charm of language through the influence of poetry, songs, and famous works, enhancing cultural aesthetics, cultivating literary literacy, and strengthening their "immunity" to bad memes. It is also possible to actively carry out various Chinese language activities, such as recitation and writing competitions, to enrich campus life and guide students to develop good language habits, forming a positive and uplifting campus cultural atmosphere. On the other hand, relevant departments should strengthen the supervision of the online environment and curb the breeding of bad internet memes from the source. Relevant platforms should also continue to improve their content review mechanisms. In terms of algorithm design and technical optimization, they should improve push mechanisms such as the "youth model" to achieve precise and customized dissemination, push positive and healthy high-quality content to young people, guide the public to establish correct language concepts, and achieve the goal of "good money driving out bad money". Language and writing are the most important communication tools for human beings, as well as the most important carriers for the inheritance of culture and civilization. Protecting the innocence and beauty of children, using standardized, civilized, and beautiful language to pave the way for healthy growth for young people, allowing them to have "light in their mouths" and "love in their hearts", truly learning to respect, understand, and care for others, and laying a solid foundation for future development. (New Society)
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Zhou shu
Source:GMW.cn
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