Creating Heroified Figures

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Creating perfect figures, as heroes is seemed to be beneficial to the society as a whole. The good virtues and great achievement from these heroes are supposed to inspire people to make progress in life and contribution to society. However, heroification still has some inevitable limitations that cause undesirable consequence on both students and hero themselves. Furthermore, people can neither get an objective nor effective suggestions for making accomplishments in real world from those heroified events. Instead of influencing society in a positive way, heroifiction cause various negative effects. Initially, imposing heroification to people is actually unfair to themselves because their life experiences are distorted when presented to …show more content…

Students are deprived of opportunities to attain complete information of a hero, because most textbooks only partly exemplify certain values or events of the heroified figures. These educational materials only concentrate on demonstrating what it wants students to learn, disregarding to present the true value and tell the overall experience of heroes objectively. Therefore, students fail to think critically after learning story, narrowed by the narration in textbooks. For example, the heroified Woodrow Wilson is only praised as a one of the most dedicated presidents in the United States, who is enthusiasm in developing and prospering the nation, in the most textbooks. Because of the heroification, most students only know him as a great figure who makes considerable contribution, but hardly aware Woodrow Wilson as a antidemocrat. Heroification prevents students from objectively thinking and …show more content…

The heroification always only understates the considerable achievement made by hero but not mentioning the "distance they traversed to achieve". However, today is the world, which emphasize the individuality. Everyone is a separate existence in the world, who born with distinctive background and face with different situation. As a result, the road to achieve success, which works for those heroes, may not fit for other people. It is admitted that Helen Keller overcame her physical handicaps to make academic progress. But, one of the most significant factors that aim her achievement is her wealthy family, which was able to a hiring private tutor to support her education. Heroification negatively affects people's judgment on making their own path. Heroification shapes a model, which inspires the society to active in a positive way. A hero tends to be an ideal figure that whole society should follow and learn from.
Nevertheless, different racial and people own diverse perspective toward a hero. The heroified one benefits one nation while may hurt another group. None of an Africa American would consider Woodrow Wilson as a hero although most other white American does, since Wilson is a racialist, who segregates the federal government and prevents the blacks from engaging in politics. It is difficult to define a person as a hero to

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