how come people like Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Patrick Henry, Jesus Christ are viewed as role models? Instead, people worship stupid celebs like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears who probably have not done anything to deserve the title role model?
2006-09-05 20:45:59 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Because people don't have morals or standards again. Thank you reality TV. Grr....
2006-09-06 13:48:40 · answer #1 · answered by Gothic Martha™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very good observation. I believe you can also notice the difference between the so called role models like Britney Spears and the mainstream role models like Nelson Mandela. The latter will leave or have left a legacy and values that are time-tested and people still refer to with admiration and awe while the former leave us empty with a very short-lived admiration and only to a very defined and select people. If you were to list down the values they present to us, you would not go beyond 3. So the depraved society in which we stay revere pop idols and people in the entertainment who do not have very admirable characteristics but lot of question marks - no excellence in morals or anything like that. Most of it is face value and not inner character that we would like to be identified with.
2006-09-05 20:55:28 · answer #2 · answered by Counsellor 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love your question; I have often wondered that myself. So often people worship celebs, no names because some celebs do much for charity. Reminds me of that advertisement can you name your child's teacher's name. I truly believe that our role models should be that unknown solder that make the ultimate sacrifice for his or her country, the teacher who gives his or her time to help a handy cap student learn, the doctor who really cares about his or her patents health rather then money, the mom or dad that makes sure their child is safe and happy. I could go on and on. Thank you for such a wonderful question.
2006-09-05 20:58:20 · answer #3 · answered by Doug favors universal insurance! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the next generation. Schooling isn't like it was. You used to learn about the pillars of society, but now, everybody is so unhappy with their own lives, they have to live preciously through a celebrity's life. Time to get the history books out and teach the kids who the real role models are!
2006-09-08 11:23:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God knows...another good role model by the way.
People seem more obsessed and targeted to money, fame and being on TV or in the movies. And not those people who stood or stand for principles, ethics and morality. And please don't any one respond with that moral relevancy crap. There is right and wrong; not well maybe...
2006-09-05 20:54:24 · answer #5 · answered by iraq51 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My role model is Peter the Great of Russia..
2006-09-05 20:46:58 · answer #6 · answered by Arwen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both categories which you have mentionned are imposed models..each one addresses a different perspective of psychological profile of the members of today's mass society
2006-09-05 20:52:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media gives so much attention to these idiots that people believe they are the "good guys". Many people, especially the young and ignorant do not and cannot think for themselves, sadly,
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2006-09-05 21:11:31 · answer #8 · answered by arejokerswild 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
probably because they have a better chance of achieving the level of Paris/Spears, than the first list, and there is more money in it.
2006-09-05 20:48:39 · answer #9 · answered by shazam 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My role model was Tyler Durden. He was enlightened.
2006-09-05 20:47:55 · answer #10 · answered by fig316_99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋