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（英会話リスニングスクリプト）
If you jostle your way through Shinsaibashi
Arcade, you could be forgiven for thinking that Japanese
scientists have succeeded in experiments in cloning people,
teenage girls, in fact.
You will see dozens of tanned girls with
brown hair and narrow eyebrows, wearing baggy socks and
Burberry scarves.
They will be looking at their pagers, talking
on portable phones, exchanging tiny photographs of themselves
with others or, some especially envied girls will be playing
with their tamagotchi, a game where an electronic chicken
is brought up by its owner.
These girls are called "Kogyals",
which roughly translates as "cool teenage girl".
The Kogyal are the children of parents who
grew up in the sixties and seventies and were the first
generation to experience the mass-ownership of videos and
computers.
It seems that parents and teachers spend
little time trying to communicate with children.
Many of the students have part-time jobs,
even though they know it is against school rules.
Many of their teachers know about this,
but don't say anything, leading to a feeling among the children
that anything is all right if it isn't discussed.
Many people think that they are spoiled
and not used to waiting to get something they want.
Some people think that this is creating
a selfish "me first" generation of teenagers who
know what they want and want it straight away.
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