People 
Young people today are comfortable with prosperity. They search for their place in society and in the working world and enjoy freedom in their free time.
As society becomes more prosperous, people in general, and young people in particular, attach more importance to their leisure. A poll conducted in 1999 showed that 63% of those aged between 18 and 39 regarded their leisure as "very important."
Their relative wealth and the explosion of opportunities for enjoying their free time has led many to identify more with their leisure activities and the group or scene they belong to, rather than with their job.
For many young Swiss, as for their counterparts in many other countries, wearing the right clothes with the right label is a way of asserting their personality and gaining social recognition. Where their parents passed surreptitious notes to each
other in class, modern teenagers use the short message service on their mobile phones to communicate with their friends wherever they are in an abbreviated youth dialect that leaves adults perplexed - sometimes amused and sometimes annoyed.
Swiss youth culture is international
People of Switzerland
Young people in Switzerland are as varied in their tastes and activities as their counterparts anywhere else in the world. Different trends come and go. Some live for modern technology, while others seek for harmony between nature and body. Some think only of material values and external appearances, others try to right society's wrongs by joining extreme political groups.