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Ordinary people copy famous people whom they see on TV and magazines. Do you think it is a positive development?

#people #copy #tv #magazines #development
TV and magazines play an important role in our daily life. These are meant to provide information and entertainment to their viewers. With their vast reach nowadays they have evolved into our daily
life style
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lifestyle
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 and ordinary
people
 generally tend to follow famous
people
 and celebrities being shown through
this
 media. I believe
this
 is largely a negative
development
. The major negative aspect of
this
development
 is that
people
 are attracted by and follow the glamorous side of these
people
, which is portrayed more.
As a
result
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result,
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 ordinary
people
 follow famous personalities based on their looks only and not based on the work they do,
success
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the success
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 they have achieved
cr
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or
 their contribution to society.
For example
, if their favourite celeb has
6 pack
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 abs, they
also
 try to achieve
such
 a body, and to do so quickly, they have to consume a lot of unhealthy supplements, which may not be good for them. Some girls even stop eating altogether to get the size zero figure of their role model. What they fail to realise is that these
celebs
 spend hours in the gym
everyday
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 to get that sort of figure. Another negative effect of
this
development
 is that if these
celebs
 drink or smoke in public, the common
people
 think it is a sort of status symbol and do the same. They
also
 want to achieve
the
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 comfortable lifestyle and costly cars and other
such
 possessions without doing the hard work required to achieve
such
 status.
As a result
, petty crime incidences are often seen. On the positive side, these
celebs
 sometimes motivate
people
 to do good things and not let any setbacks in their
life
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lives
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 lead them to go into depression. The encouragement given by celebrated
people
 can help them to overcome
such
situation
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situations
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 to achieve success and help others
also
.
For example
, a famous Indian celeb Deepika Padukone told
people
 how she fought with her depression in a
youtube
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YouTube
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 interview. Many
people
 were really motivated by it and
learnt
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learned
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 ways to come out of their depression.
To sum up
, it is true that
people
 tend to copy famous
people
 who are glamourized by the media. I firmly believe that it is a more negative than a positive
development
.
People
 should not follow these
celebs
 blindly. They should be
realjstic
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realistic
 and follow only the good things of these
celebs
.
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