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Ordinary people try to copy famous personalities by seeing them on TV and reading them in the newspaper. What is the reason? Is it a good idea to copy famous personalities?

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Famous personalities have always intimidated people from all walks of people. For centuries, the common people have read about them in
newspapers
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the newspapers
 and watched them on
television
, and
then
 try to mimic their
styles
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style
.
This
 essay will discuss
why despite
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why, despite
 the obvious drawback of falling
in
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into
 debt, ordinary people are still drawn towards the fancy lifestyles of the so called high society. When a common person sees or reads about the famous personalities of society, they instantly associate them with being rich and the ones having a luxurious lifestyle.
Moreover
, people tend to think that these people are important as they are always on
television
 and in newspapers. To
fulfill
put in effect
fulfil
this
 desire of luxury and being important is one prominent reason why ordinary people try to copy them.
For instance
, the youth today likes to have the same clothes and
tech
impart skills or knowledge to
teach
 as they see on their movie stars. Overall, the trend to follow the famous people comes from
a greed
united by being of the same opinion
agreed
 to feel rich and important. The masses try to blindly follow whatever they see or read their famous idols are doing.
This
 idea of copying famous personalities is completely flawed because more often than not, what we see on
television
 or read in newspapers is only part of the story and not the whole story. A study by Harvard University have shown that only twenty percent of
television
 news is
states
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stating
 the full context and statistics.
This
 is the reason why following famous people based on media sources
is
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are
 an outrageously wrong concept. To conclude, people must use their own sense of judgement and discretion before following anyone, no matter how famous they are, because newspapers and
television
 media always try to portray a good image of the people they want to make famous.
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