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I love Karen Marie Shelton’s answer. If we look at global trends, I will weigh in with two general issues.Process addiction and excess. Social media, smart phone use, gaming, and gambling are good examples. Technology affects one’s psychology, for better or worse.General trends like disease, dissatisfaction, and disruption. We live in an era of fast food, fast pace, and fast change. In general, slow food, slow pace, and slow change are better for youth.

I don't think so. Beyond a few incidents, RSS statements are always twisted.They say that one must adapt to survive. In the RSS case, it's stability and not flux that provides the strength that the organisation has. Of course, an increasing number of street smart youth who know how the new world works are coming in, and to an extent, this coincidences with what G.D Bakshi calls a 2nd wave of nationalism. The social media is mobilised more effectively. However, our feedback chain is too slow as of now, and the organisation lumbers through like a giant beast.It'll take a decade or maybe more for the RSS go be a more streamlined, and responsive unit capable of mobilisation of resources to best meet the demands placed by information warfare.What is interesting is non sang affiliate orgs , mainly staffed by sanghis are showing us every day what a proactive, and streamlined model of activities can do. The bhagat Singh kranti sena being one. The Hindu Samhati being another. These are people who have worked with the sangh, but find a need to get out of the organisational inertia that characterises the sangh, and take a more proactive approach. The sangh parivar definitely needs to assimilate the lessons learnt herewith, and incorporate some of them.

Does the young generation (age 20 to 30) in America have the same phobias and grudges against Russia as the old generation does?Interesting question, indeed. The short answer is yes it does. At least the Russians feel so. Judge by yourself. I hope the following excerpt from the Ann Wright report will help.Misunderstanding Russia and Russians.Western media has demonized Russia and President Putin with unrelenting propaganda that has dazed and confused many Russians, a condition that retired U.S. Col. Ann Wright encountered on a recent visit.By Ann WrightI’ve just ended two weeks visiting cities in four regions of Russia. The questions that were asked over and over were: “Why does America hate us? Why do you demonize us?” Most would add a caveat — “I like American people and I think YOU like us individually but why does the American government hate our government?”This article is a composite of the comments made and questions asked to our 20-person delegation and to me as an individual. I do not attempt to defend the views but offer them as an insight into the thinking of many of the persons with whom we came into contact in meetings and on the streets.None of the questions, comments or views tell the full story, but I hope they give a feel for the desire of the ordinary Russian that his or her country and its citizens are respected as a sovereign nation with a long history and that it is not demonized as an outlaw state or an “evil” nation. Russia has its flaws and room for improvement in many areas, just as every nation does, including for sure, the United States.New Russia Looks Like YouThe United States worked hard to make the Soviet Union collapse, and it did. You wanted to remake Russia like the United States – a democratic, capitalist country in which your companies could make money – and you have done that.After 25 years, we are a new nation much different from the Soviet Union. The Russian Federation has created laws that have allowed a large private business class to emerge. Our cities now look like your cities. We have Burger King, McDonalds, Subway, Starbucks and malls filled with a huge number of totally Russian business ventures for the middle class.We have chain stores with merchandise and food, similar to Wal-Mart and Target. We have exclusive stores with top-of-the-line clothing and cosmetics for the richer. We drive new (and older) cars now just like you do. We have massive rush hour traffic jams in our cities, just like you do. We have extensive, safe, inexpensive metros in all of our major cities, just like you have. When you fly across our country, it looks just like yours, with forests, farm fields, rivers and lakes — only bigger, many time zones bigger.Most people on buses and in the metro are looking at our mobile phones with internet, just like you do. We have a smart youth population that is computer literate and most of whom speak several languages.You sent your experts on privatization, international banking, stock exchanges. You urged us to sell off our huge state industries to the private sector at ridiculously low prices, creating the multi-billionaire oligarchs that in many ways mirror the oligarchs of the United States. And you made money in Russia from this privatization. Some of the oligarchs are in prison for violating our laws.You sent us experts on elections. For over 25 years we have held elections. And we have elected some politicians you don’t like and some that we as individuals may not like. We have political dynasties, just like you do. We don’t have a perfect government, nor perfect government officials — which is also what we observe in the U.S. government and its officials. We have graft and corruption in and outside of government, just as you do. Some of our politicians are in jail for violating our laws, just like some of your politicians are in jail for violating your laws.And we have the poor just like you do. We have villages, towns and small cities that are struggling with migration to the big cities with people moving in hopes of finding jobs, just like you do.Our middle class travels throughout the world, just like you do. In fact, as a Pacific nation just like the U.S., we bring so much tourism money with us on our trips that your Pacific island territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas have negotiated with the U.S. Federal government to allow Russian tourists to enter both of those U.S. territories for 45 days without the time-consuming and expensive U.S. visa.We have a strong science and space program and are a key partner in the International Space Station. We sent the first satellite into space and the first humans into space. Our rockets still take astronauts to the space station while your NASA program has been curtailed.There is more at: https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/05/misunderstanding-russia-and-russians/Personally, I do not believe Igor Markov, who insists that ‘the younger generation does not take Russia seriously’. Because if the younger generation consider the Russians as enemies they must be plain stupid taking not the enemy seriously. But if they ain’t that stupid, I would be very surprised to learn that they take Igor’s word seriously. Probably they understand why he is spreading such rubbish about Russia.