The most influential children and teenagers of 2014
Studying the generation of childrenwhose voice began to sound louder in 2014, I really want to hope that they can really make this world a better place. They, just like adults, struggle with gender prejudices, look for their style and style, are under attack from those who are stronger but do not despair and seem to grow up faster than the generation of their parents. In this list, we will talk about models, transgender people, writers, athletes, scientists, actors, and chefs-children - everyone who changed the world of their peers and parents in 2014.
Kristina Pimenova
9 years old, model
Although the popularity of models is fading away, and the actors are gradually taking their niche, the world is still looking for the perfect look. Recently, social media and the public agreed that the most beautiful girl on earth was the nine-year-old model Kristina Pimenova, the daughter of Russian football player Ruslan Pimenov. Fire adds activity in social networks: Christina's Instagram and Facebook are being led by her mother, the former model Glykeria Shirokova, who knows the correct angle to present her daughter in a favorable light. There is nothing good in the comments of users of social networks about how long Christine’s legs are and what a cute “baby” she is, and it’s impossible not to mention society’s obsession with visual appeal: half a million followers on Instagram and 2.5 million on Facebook say that maturity and diversity as trends can only be dreamed of.
Tavi gevinson
18 years old, blogger, journalist and actress
We recently wrote about how Tavi Gevinson conquered the world and became the voice of a generation of 18-year-olds. At the age of 11, Tavi started a blog and, like a real nonconformist teenager, began to search for herself, actively experimenting with trends and gradually nurturing her own style - both in journalism and in fashion. Her blog Rookie turned into a real online magazine with 3.5 million unique visitors per month, where she writes about her life and talks about pop culture. Now Gevinson is demonstrating acting skills in the Broadway production of "This Is Our Youth" with Michael Cera. In the future, Tavi is going to continue her studies by enrolling in college, but it seems that we can hardly remember her as an diligent student — the generation of adolescents she represents are too interesting for adults, so we should expect new brilliant roles and incredible revelations about how she lives and what she thinks about.
Jazz jennings
14 years old, transgender
2014 can be considered symbolic for the transgender community, which has decided to declare itself louder than the usual statement of the fact that grangesgendery exist and they are the same people as everyone else. The most difficult thing is for children and transgender teenagers, so it is impossible to overestimate the role played by Jazz Jennings - a 14-year-old girl born as a boy, but from the age of two she felt like a girl. At the age of 4, doctors diagnosed “gender dysphoria” with Jazz, and she recently co-authored the book I Am Jazz for children from 4 to 8 years old: “This book,” says Jazz, “is primarily for transgender children who struggle with themselves and society. I want to tell them that they are not alone. They must come out of the shadows and live like normal people. " Jennings talked with Bill Clinton, the legendary American TV presenter Barbara Walters interviewed her - in general, she became a media darling, as she teaches others, not only transgender people, to accept themselves for who you are.
Sasha and Malia Obama
13 and 16 years old, daughter of the President of the United States
The daughters of the President of the United States are always in sight, although Barack Obama jokes that the information about whether they are meeting with someone is "strictly classified." Moreover, the recent scandal with their indirect participation showed what reputational risks threaten if someone thinks of the appearance of the Obama sisters. Republican party member Elizabeth Loten quit after criticizing Sasha and Malia Obama: “Dear Sasha and Mali, I understand that you have a transitional age, but you are part of the president’s family, try to behave with dignity. Do not dress like you are the bar, not the White House. " Meanwhile, Malia Obama made a splash, appearing at the Lollapalooza music festival, and Sasha became a style icon of its kind: after the girl was spotted in a unicorn sweatshirt, she sold all of the same sweatshirts on ASOS in just a couple of days.
Emer Hickey, Chiara Judge and Sophie Healy-Tou
17, 16 and 17 years old, schoolgirls scientists
Three classmates from Ireland won the Google Science Fair, which is held for the fourth year in a row for experimental students. Their project, which hit the judges, could theoretically solve the problem of the global food crisis: they found out that with the help of diazotroph bacteria, certain crops can be made more fertile and yield can be increased. After an 11-month study, it turned out that this bacterium is able to reduce the time of germination of barley and oats by 50% and reduce the amount of fertilizer needed for plant growth. Now schoolgirls are thinking about how to make money from it, but it seems they will not have problems with it - if there are things in the world that can solve global problems, there will always be those who will be ready to finance them.
Monet davis
13 years old baseball player
Davis is 13 years old, she is African American and throws the ball at a speed of 110 km / h - if someone breaks the patterns in the sport, so this girl. American girls do not play baseball, and Monet Davis is really able to become that same role-playing model, changing the course of history, which then bestsellers write and remove biopics. African-American athletes rarely adorn the covers of Sports Illustrated, but Davis was noticed after her murderous throw in a game in the international competition Little League World Series and told to "remember her name." In total, during the existence of this competition for children from 11 to 13 years, only 18 girls participated in it. Davies is going crazy even in ESPN, shooting stories about how she, as a pitcher, played six dry innings. Despite this, Monet is not in a hurry to let the sport, claiming that as soon as her rivals mature, she will not be able to compete with them.
Kiernan Shipka
15 years old, actress
The general public first met Kiernan Shipka on Madness in 2007 when she was selected to play the role of Sally, the eldest daughter of Don and Betty Draper. Numerous tele-critics noted that season after season, it gradually turns into a central figure. Although Shipka was originally a guest actress, Matthew Weiner, the showwarden of “Mad Men,” transferred her to the main cast. For her outstanding acting, Kiernan won the Young Hollywood Award, and then one of the main roles in Colors in the Attic, the first part of the American Dolangenger saga. And this is just the beginning.
Flynn McGarry
16 years old, chef
According to a family legend, Flynn McGarry began cooking for the whole family as early as 11 years old, because he didn’t like mom’s cooking. Now, his mother calls himself his "dishwasher", and Flynn, who turned sixteen in November, no longer feeds his family and relatives, but the visitors of the restaurant, in which he was recently appointed chef. McGarry’s cooking style is called “progressive American cuisine,” which generally means nothing, except for the love of experimentation and the willingness not to go far from American culinary traditions. His profile was compiled in The New York Times, he participates in a television show, he works a lot and dreams of opening the "best restaurant in the world" - in general, the most popular cook among those who do not sell alcohol for another five years.
Joshua wong
18 years old, oppositionist
The whole world recognized the clumsy teenager in huge glasses after it became clear that he was the leader of the so-called umbrella revolution - Hong Kong street protests, the main requirement of which is to limit China’s influence on the management of this special administrative district. A former British colony, Hong Kong is considered more progressive and independent than the rest of China, and therefore a huge number of students participated in the protests, whose mouthpiece Wong became. Otherwise, the traditional, China, he is considered a troublemaker and an extremist, but he seems to spit on it at all - albeit in Hong Kong and restless, but freely.
Lorde
18 years old, singer
Recently, New Zealand singer Lorde celebrated her 18th birthday by presenting the video for the song "Yellow Flicker Beat", which was included in the soundtrack for the latest "Hunger Games", and this is a direct consequence of her incredible success. At the beginning of 2014, she received two Grammy statuettes for the hit Royals. Then her debut album "Pure Heroine" became platinum. Well, in the end, Lorde became a role model for those who do not like Photoshop and love themselves: in March she published two photos of herself, photographed (with perfect skin) and real (with not so much), in order to remind her followers that that "faults are normal."
Malala Yusufzai
17 years old, human rights activist
Having survived the Taliban attack and a headshot, numerous manifestations of compatriots' discontent and lack of faith in her, Malala Yusufzai from a small Pakistani girl human rights activist turned into a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She helps residents of her native Pakistan get an education, rescues Syrian refugee children and still listens to her parents as the only mentors. She walks with a titanium plate implanted into the skull and for the whole of her life she has partially lost her hearing, but she never regretted that she was not afraid to take a word against violence. Mahatma Gandhi has a worthy replacement, it’s a pity that the price of the peace struggle is now so high.
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