Celebrities Have the Moral Responsibility to Be Good Role Models for the Society
According to Mr. Canada of the Choate Rosemary Hall, a role model should be someone who has a set of values so high that you will probably never reach. Today, celebrities are often linked with bad behavior – violence, drugs, indecent dressing and so many other unacceptable behaviors. This bad behavior is enough proof for parents to judge that celebrities are not good role models for the youth in which of course they have the responsibility to be.
Sometimes however, if a celebrity becomes involved in any kind of trouble, a responsible celebrity will find a way out of it and clear the air as to what has happened and still serve as a good role model for easily influenced people. For example, the mode of dressing of a celebrity, like Britney Spears “baby one more time” music video caused lots of young women to tie up the front of their shirts and lifted up their skirts so as to look like her in the video. There have been so many cases like this and has been going on for years.
Many of the most worshipped celebrities are poor role models for sensitive young people. “Young people need role models in their lives because they need people they can try to strive to be like” (Phillips 2012) and the legacy these celebrities are laying are not good ones. A celebrity should be a good role model for the sake of the society.
Few of these celebrities have been involved in charities like, Tim Tebow; a football Denver Broncos quarterback helps orphanages in Philippines as well as schooling in Colorado (Denver business journal, 11 November 2011). Tim Tebow is doing a good work being a responsible role model for the society and since he is always in the media, the young people who see what he is doing will appreciate him and one day they will want to be like him and be in that position of helping others, by this thought he has influenced them positively.
Although, not every celebrity is a good role model despite they are the biggest icons in the public eye their responsibility to
Sometimes however, if a celebrity becomes involved in any kind of trouble, a responsible celebrity will find a way out of it and clear the air as to what has happened and still serve as a good role model for easily influenced people. For example, the mode of dressing of a celebrity, like Britney Spears “baby one more time” music video caused lots of young women to tie up the front of their shirts and lifted up their skirts so as to look like her in the video. There have been so many cases like this and has been going on for years.
Many of the most worshipped celebrities are poor role models for sensitive young people. “Young people need role models in their lives because they need people they can try to strive to be like” (Phillips 2012) and the legacy these celebrities are laying are not good ones. A celebrity should be a good role model for the sake of the society.
Few of these celebrities have been involved in charities like, Tim Tebow; a football Denver Broncos quarterback helps orphanages in Philippines as well as schooling in Colorado (Denver business journal, 11 November 2011). Tim Tebow is doing a good work being a responsible role model for the society and since he is always in the media, the young people who see what he is doing will appreciate him and one day they will want to be like him and be in that position of helping others, by this thought he has influenced them positively.
Although, not every celebrity is a good role model despite they are the biggest icons in the public eye their responsibility to
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