I agree with your assesment of popstars (They are amazingly talented in their area, though not good role models) but you haven't proved to me why the same assessment isn't true of sports stars.
I’ll never win the Tour de France, and I admire the perseverance of people who can. But being able to peddle on a bicycle for longer than the common man without getting tired doesn’t make you a role model. It just makes you a god cyclist.
Perhaps the world might be a better place if young kids decided not to go to university and study and instead they just practised their football all day. Who needs doctors? Being a striker would be much more fun. And screw being an engineer. I’m going to be a goalie.
Sports stars shouldn’t automatically be considered role models, just because they are sports stars in the same way that pop stars should be considered role models.
Sham,
I agree with your assesment of popstars (They are amazingly talented in their area, though not good role models) but you haven't proved to me why the same assessment isn't true of sports stars.
I’ll never win the Tour de France, and I admire the perseverance of people who can. But being able to peddle on a bicycle for longer than the common man without getting tired doesn’t make you a role model. It just makes you a god cyclist.
Perhaps the world might be a better place if young kids decided not to go to university and study and instead they just practised their football all day. Who needs doctors? Being a striker would be much more fun. And screw being an engineer. I’m going to be a goalie.
Sports stars shouldn’t automatically be considered role models, just because they are sports stars in the same way that pop stars should be considered role models.