Misguided Hello, we are Jonathan Ayub and Eliase Esparza, we are currently seniors at Rancho High School and are here to talk to you about todayś misguided generation. In today's generation, young teens follow the footsteps of arrogant, conceited, narcissist celebrities, usually because they don’t fit in. Such as in the article “Honor Code” David Brooks said, “People who don't fit in this cultural ideal respond by disengaging and rebelling.” Therefore, the American culture in today’s society is based off of careless pop stars, who end up influencing young teens with bad examples of how to function in society. These pop stars’ behavior becomes a trend for young boys and girls and influence the wrong act of movements among them. We hear by withstand the movement of America’s current cultural effects and will assist today’s youth to take a stand and speak out. Such as in the article “Transforming Silence into Language and Action”, Audre Lorde said, “My silences have not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.” …show more content…
These young teens around the ages of 12 and 13 commit the way they live their life the same way pop stars do, especially the boys. These boys believe they’re meant to be more and better than others. Such as in the article, “His Politeness Is Her Powerlessness”, Deborah Tannen quoted, “Granted, women have lower status than men in our society.” Celebrities are usually older and can do more things that are appropriate for their ages. When children see the way they act on the social media, they want to be just like them. Therefore, they contradict their actions and start drinking or smoking, ruining their lives in the
In “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies” David Denby criticizes movies portraying high school. He writes “The most commercial and frivolous of genres harbor a grievance against the world” (426). In many movies starting in the early 90’s you began to see an extreme amount of disrespect to adults from teenagers. High school movies are filled with unruly
Throughout time, generations have been exposed to the theme of teenagers rebelling in literature, films, and music. Teenagers rebelling is a topic that everyone can relate to because of the pressure that comes with being a teenager. During this time, teenagers are being given rules to follow, expectations to meet, and society telling them what they need to do to make their lives meaningful. The exposure to rebelling themes in the media is presenting them with messages to relate to, and can even showcase the consequences that will come with their actions.
Why is that all blogs or media sites only pay attention to the bad behavior? We see videos of famous people getting drunk, doing drugs, and even being disrespectful. Eventually, we see this domino effect on young girls, they start being rebellious, start to talk back to their parents even go to parties and drink. Nowadays, celebrities are seen as role models to these kids. What kind of example are these celebrities providing to teenagers when they can barely control their life. Role models are supposed to be someone you admire, someone you look up to and try and follow their examples. Not someone who lives a fake life and you barely know. As stated in an article called “Why this generation is so completely obsessed with the idea of Celebrity” Adam Pliskin explains the real reason to why we follow celebrities as much as we do. This is because we secretly want fame ourselves.
Have you ever met someone who acted just as teens are stereotyped? Not many people have because they do not exist. Real teens are poorly portrayed in the media and are the complete opposite of their stereotypes. Books and TV shows make teens out to be wild or crazy, irresponsible and out of control. One hardly ever hears about teen-heroes. Instead, newspapers and magazines are plastered with stories of teens and crime. And while looking at commercial billboards and other related media, the regular teen seems to be sex-crazed and image-obsessed.
Social inequality has been prevalent in modern-day America, where you could get picked on for just wearing the wrong brand or hairstyle. This occurs the most upon people who are struggling to adjust to adulthood; teenagers. Social inequality has and still is affecting teenagers across the world, and writers are writing about this problem in order to raise awareness and to change the view of the public. These authors write about example in which the inequality is demonstrated, hoping to present a different perspective and to motivate the reader against social inequality. However, not enough awareness has been raised to help prevent it. This is working, but not quickly, but it shows that things like books and music can help to raise awareness,
One of the major misconceptions unfairly given to our teenagers is that the world owes them. Stepping into life thinking that a cushy lifestyle, 50,000 dollar a year job, and a house will be handed to them strictly because they are "cool" is setting the future of our country up for a huge pitfall. After all, being "cool" in high school afforded them a great deal. This idea keeps our teens from striving to become all they can be on their own. They are then left in their mid-twenties with little to no education, no skills, and extremely unhappy because everything taught to them growing up is now proving to be blatantly wrong. Realizing that being popular doesn't get the same response any more can be devastating. So we now end up with a generation that has spent precious learning years working on popularity, instead of developing skills and gaining knowledge. Our teenagers need to know that they can become, and should strive to be, whatever is in their hearts to be. Then, and only then will we produce an educated society who can earn the lifestyle that they so desire.
First of all, most celebrities aren’t good role models. They can “mind control” kids with a wave of their hands! For instance, imagine a world with little, innocent kids copying Ke$ha’s and Justin Beiber’s every move. Celebrities can have all kinds of bad influencing on children, teens, and even adults! Imagine those once innocent kids using foul language, smoking, and using illegal drugs! Did you know that 9 % of all pop, 14% of all rock, 20% of all R&Bhip-hop, 36 % of all country, and 77% of all rap have highly censored content in them? That i...
Since ancient times, celebrities have always been looked up to as gods—someone better than ‘regular’ people. In his short essay response, Collin Palmer feels as if our obsessions are being falsely exaggerated. In reality, most obsessions aren’t as bad as Deborah King makes them out to be. Although Collin Palmer did not address how admiration may guide teenagers down the wrong path (that's not their own), I concur that many teenagers today do not let celebrities change who they are and their future.
Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Marilyn Monroe, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne are some of the most idolized celebrities in today’s society. People worship celebrities, not because of the good morals they may possess, but because of their fame. We canonize celebrities despite the fact their music encourages use of drugs and alcohol, the abuse of women, and they dress slatternly. There are many luminaries, deceased or living, who are good role models who are often overlooked because they are not at the top of the charts. When you look at whom most teens idolize, you should realize just how bad of an influence they have over their fans.
Many believe that celebrities have a negative impact on society and teens, where they are seen as role models. Role models are celebrities, such as athletes, singers, actors, or can even be teens parents. Celebrities are a huge part of how society is seen and what is put on social media 24/7, and although some teens believe that celebrities make good role models by influencing charity work, the bad behavior that celebrities exhibit outweighs the positive. Celebrities do not make good role models due to bad, inappropriate, or illegal behavior. On the other hand, celebrities also should not be expected to act a certain way just so that they can teach kids how to act and have the responsibility to act like parents. A good reputation is important, but not when it
While the SNSs can be used for positive changes in the world, often times they are used for promoting unethical behavior, such as dishonesty, stealing, and drug use. Many celebrities and people online display a lavish, reckless lifestyle. They boast about all the money they possess on Twitter, post a picture of themselves smoking on Instagram, and record Snapchats of countless hours of partying. While these acts alone are not considered unethical, they encourage teenagers to life the same lifestyle. The problems begin when these viewers go to extremes in order to obtain the same possessions. For instance, some teenagers can fall into selling drugs or robbing stores to have the same money and luxurious belongings. Teenagers are quick to find an ‘easy way of living’ that is unethical and supports the lifestyle they desire. In a study about the influence of smoking and alcohol on adolescents, researchers (Fujimoto, Huang, Soto, and Valente, 2014) note, “This supports previous findings that SNS use alone does not pose risks, rather it is the content exchanged through SNSs that trigger behavioral influences” (p7). Teenagers must be responsible about the type of accounts they follow on social networking sites. Constantly seeing famous people behaving recklessly can subconsciously pressure teenagers into acting the same way. Another
Even though Some Hollywood entertainment can teach teen’s moral values and lessons, Hollywood makes teens reckless because teens think if it can happen in the movies it can happen in reality and teens want to do what the ''big'' actors do. Entertainment media, in all of its various forms, has had a tremendous impact on how we should think, perform and desire to be. The public are lead to believe the movies, TV shows, etc. are all real happenings. “The Hollywood industry is one of the most powerful and influential enterprises in the world, its visual voice heard around the globe” (Lowson).
On an individual basis, popular culture helps establish and mold the subjective self. It influences the way individuals think, act and respond, and this becomes part of how people develop their personalities, preferences, beliefs, and their overall identity. For example, most people idolize certain fashion statements or fads which determines their preference of clothing. This process of self-formation coincides with both elements of personal choice and the responses and attitudes of others. Furthermore, the identity that an individual asserts is influenced by and helps determine the development of social relationships; it influences the communities and groups to which an individual will identify with and how that identification is processed. In the establishment of communal bonding, mass culture helps with, as Leavis describes, a “leveling down of society” (35). The lines of class distinction have been blurred which, to Leavis is not a good thing, but it unites us nonetheless. Popular culture also promotes unity in that it “blurs age lines” (29). As stated earlier, the products of popular culture are targeted towards a variety of audiences; adults read comic books, children watch adult films, etc. (Macdonald 29). Similarly, teenagers and young adults are brought together through night clubs, fashion, and music; college students come together to enjoy campus events; book fans wait in line hours for new releases, etc. Each of these instances produce feelings of belonging, acceptance and connection with members of society over a common
Celebrities carry so much influence on young individuals today. These prominent celebrities and their influence in social media are apparent. Inevitably teens are given the opportunity to follow short term relationships, drugs, ridiculous fights and alcohol consumption, exhibited by the many celebrities admired today, viewing this as an ideal lifestyle. But in many cases not all celebrities demonstrate detrimental actions to the youth some have promoted wonderful deeds
One big problem with today's youth is that the majority does not fear the consequences of drugs. In addition, they are increasingly using illicit drugs and almost regard drugs as the popular thing to do. There are countless movies out where today's youth is portrayed as drug users. Even if it is not a drug based movie, there is at least one comment on, reference to, or portrayal of the use of drugs by all types of people. The worst part about it is that it is not only the stereotype drug user in these movies that is using the drugs. In fact, in several of the pop culture movies that have been released in the past few years it is the most popular kids in school that are using the drugs. For instance in the movie "Clueless," at a party, Cher and the other popular kids smoke marijuana and make it sound like it is all right to do. This portrayal of not only the slackers, but also the cool kids in today's society using drugs is a big influence on today's youth that using drugs is ok. Using drugs is irresponsible, unh...