Instead of adopting the moral condemnations that adults make about youth culture, young people must defend themselves. If money is the rice bowl for our survival, pop culture is the curry bowl that gives pleasure and spice to youth. So, young people must defend their curry bowls, and not get sucked into adult discourse and not get drowned by the speeches of ministers and authorities. And the defence is relatively easy. Most young people are not stupid, they are capable of discernment, and they are not at the mercy of mass media influences.
Young people do have minds of their own if they are given the opportunity, the space and the voice.
And the way human beings adopt elements of another culture is not a simple one. If an American eats Chinese food, he or she will not dream about Mao Zedong or be inspired by Deng Xiaoping. Similarly, if an Asian drinks Coke and listens to Madonna, he or she is not necessarily westernised. Cultures do influence individuals but not in a simplistic way. Nor are the influences uniform across all people.