Forget about the days when children looked up to powerful women as role models. Today Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears are the people that children look up to and idolise. In the celebrity culture of the 21st century are celebrities considered to be the leaders in our community? Is the celebrity culture indicative of the values and morals which our society considers to be important? Is the society we live in today only concerned with money, fame and designer clothing?
Celebrities have become familiar icons we see day in and day out. We read and talk about the latest antics of Britney Spears or Paris Hilton but is this how children, define themselves?
Media- TV, tabloid magazines, newspapers and particularly the internet are today more readily accessible to children of all ages. For young girls, it’s opening Pandora ’s Box. Everything’s at their little varnish-coated fingertips. Could the media’s portrayal of people in the spotlight, who seemingly achieved overnight success, lead some youngsters to feel less than positive about themselves? Could it lead them to believe that education is not necessary for success and that fame and fortune can be easily be achieved?
I don’t think it’s all bad to have children looking up to role models who have achieved success through their artistic or athletic talents. This is certainly a less classist approach than teaching kids they need to have a PhD. to amount to anything. So maybe we adults just need to be a little more careful about who we worship and make it clear that it is through hard work and deternination that success is achieved.
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