Introduction

Our teenager are the most important assets for our nation because they will become leaders and lead Malaysia to achieve vision 2020. The social problems that we are facing nowadays are always blamed on our youth as they are individuals who are involved in narcotics, cigarettes, alcohol or sex and pregnancy before marriage. More than that, our youth is preferred to do "something-new" without knowing their behaviour either positive or negative effects.

However, it is not the best way to solve the social problems if we keep blaming our youth. Parents, community members or government could seek and work together to implement the new path to reduce or to eliminate the factors which contribute to increasing social problems among our youth in Malaysia

Social Issues among Youth

In the past years and today, Malaysian youths had been involved in various kinds of activities which apparently led to the creation of too many impressions given by our nation and also by the media. From the mid in year 1990s, various music subcultures such as rap, hip-hop, heavy metal and punk have taken the centre stage of personifying the rhetoric concerning social problems among the youths. Among those, Black Metal, a sub genre of heavy metal, is the latest of these subcultures that has gradually captured the interest of Malaysian youths and subjected to the scrutiny of the local media. The question now is whether this subculture had created a moral panic in Malaysia as the local media began to give unwarranted publicity about the Black Metal subculture. Therefore, it also will look at the effects of Black Metal subculture among today's youths and the role of media in it. The issue is to find out if this culture had caused a moral panic in Malaysia by analysing the effects of this culture and the role of media.Above are the list of social problems involved by our youths:

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