While some argue celebrity culture offers predominantly positive inspiration, others contend it can have negative consequences. What do you think? (media studies)
☆Let’s
Think
1.
Do you follow a celebrity? Why?
How does it benefit you?
2.
What kind of negative
consequences do you think celebrity culture have?
☆Hints for
Points
Positive Effect
1.
Childhood heroes give power to
live, inspiring the young to have positive views about humanity and courage to
believe in themselves and challenge difficulties to achieve their goal.
2.
Good celebrities become role
models for young people.
3.
Some celebrities advocate for
involvement in important issues and contribute to making a difference by
utilizing their platforms and name values.
4.
Celebrities help people
connect. Their lifestyles, perspectives, and actions create an ethos of their
times and their existence itself drives movements that will transform society
into one better than before.
Negative Influence
1.
Some young women develop eating
disorder or squander money on cosmetics and fashion because of the extreme
standard of beauty celebrities set.
2.
By intensely following a
celebrity, one can get detached from reality, absorbed in life of celebrity,
which has nothing to do with one’s real life.
3.
The media, especially social
media, make it easier for individuals to feel close to celebrities, and this
can lead to criminal behaviors like stalking.
4.
Celebrity culture is the
American culture, and it is not going well. In fact, it is destroying the
country as seen in the chaos brought by the Trump administration. Celebrity
culture is based on the wrong idea that only people who make money deserve
great respect, which is fundamentally wrong.
☆Sample Answer
for Ideas and Expressions
【Supporting Details】No one remembers Paris Hilton, whose appearance on TV shows was
prioritized than any other American 15 years ago. Michael Moore called her a
canary in the coal mine then, as she mirrored the American society. I guess the
same can be said about most icons today. Young followers of their Instagram accounts
will be emulating their middle-age lives 15 years from now, but the future
young with below-average test scores will be following someone else as a
fashion and contributing to the industry as consumers. On the other hand, the
American delusion of Donald Trump as a successful businessman―An authentic, established C.E.O. wouldn’t have time to appear on the
media regularly―has elected this so-called malignant narcissist
its President twice, literally killing over a million of them with hate and
coronavirus in his first administration and another million or more, and
millions in Palestine, with a Nazi from South Africa and other tech sycophants
in the second. However, it is an endemic phenomenon of the Hollywood empire of
America. Something else like traditional authority grabs the heart of the mass
in other cultures so far, although social media may be changing how ratings
work lately; talks on election regulations on social media are being taken up
recently.
【Reservation】Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been unsuccessfully trying to delete
records of Jackie Robinson from the Defense Department although he never tries
to remove him from the baseball Hall of Fame. Jackie Robinson’s achievement as
the first African American who played in the major league has given joy and courage
to people around the world, especially young minorities in America. So much so
that a group of con artists like Trump administration wants to annihilate his
story to control the American society under their authoritarian regime, but
cannot do it in broad daylight because it knows that the scheme will backfire
by enraging people.
【Conclusion】As we can see from these examples, true heroes and heroines are the
beacons in our lives while fraud celebrities have little influence on most of us.
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