How much are you affected by the cultural obsession with celebrity? Perhaps more than you think.
U.S. teens certainly are. According to a recent study: “Young girls, by a two-to-one margin, would rather be famous than more beautiful. Those same girls, by a margin of three to one, would rather be a personal assistant to a celebrity than a U.S. senator. More than a quarter of the boys and girls surveyed said they believed fame would make them happier and more loved by their families. Most found the idea of dinner with a celebrity like Paris Hilton, Jennifer Lopez or the rapper 50 Cent more appealing than dinner with Jesus Christ.”
Check out this thought-provoking article — “Fame and misfortune” — by OSV contributing editor Emily Stimpson in our Jan. 11 issue.
And here’s our editorial based on the story. A quote: “Even in the less lucrative Catholic domain, fame tempts egos to justify deviant behavior or tolerate the creation of personality cults.”
U.S. teens certainly are. According to a recent study: “Young girls, by a two-to-one margin, would rather be famous than more beautiful. Those same girls, by a margin of three to one, would rather be a personal assistant to a celebrity than a U.S. senator. More than a quarter of the boys and girls surveyed said they believed fame would make them happier and more loved by their families. Most found the idea of dinner with a celebrity like Paris Hilton, Jennifer Lopez or the rapper 50 Cent more appealing than dinner with Jesus Christ.”
Check out this thought-provoking article — “Fame and misfortune” — by OSV contributing editor Emily Stimpson in our Jan. 11 issue.
And here’s our editorial based on the story. A quote: “Even in the less lucrative Catholic domain, fame tempts egos to justify deviant behavior or tolerate the creation of personality cults.”
