THE BACKGROUND OF A REALISTIC FACT
Lots and lots of many students went the other day, November 24th 1993, to listen to Jose
Maria Aznar, the Partido Popular's president. they went to see, to touch, to kiss, to
shake hands with their political leader. In the aula Magna of Law Faculty, there was a
great expectation and, running and pushing were the usual facts during more or less the
two hours he was there.
There were hysterical fits among the excited crowd, which was struggling to go and cheer
Aznar or just to see him.
Morris explains these reactions very weel. thereactons of the adolescents: hysterical
laughts, great screams, groaning, moaning, pushing themselves, in front of their leaders,
are signs between them who can experiment an emotional reaction in front of their sexual
leaders. On the other hand, if a teenager suddenly stands in front of one of her leaders,
sher never would scream, groan or moan. Just then her screams are not for him, but to the
other girls in the audience. In this way, ther assert themselves thorugh their emotional
susceptibility.
"To see, to touch, to kiss, to shake hands wiht their POLITICAL LEADER", Does
young people have a political leader?
Unfortunately, the great majority of Spanish teenagers are not interested in politics.
Only a few of them have one leader and act cosequently. Adolescents only want to have fun,
to live their own life, and politicians seem to come from another world. That is why young
people see politics very far away, something strange, foreign, alien.
Even some of my own schoolmates wnet to see Jose Maria Aznar. I asked them why, if they
like him, if they think like him. They did not know the anser. And then I think they went
because he is famous, a public person. Only for that? Yes, this is the reason of the
crowd: an excuse to be together to see someone famous.
Alessandra Moura. 1║ C Filologia Inglesa. 1993
Teacher. O.K. WELL DONE.