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Q. I mean why exactly do we have all those gossip magazines and tv shows that just talk about the personal lives of other people? what's the point? Do average Americans really care more about Britney and Miley more than they do about actual news? I just don't get why so many people take pleasure in ridiculing other people's problems!
Answer
People are attracted to celebrity news because it's an "escape" from actual news, but sometimes it's an escape that seems to becoming something of an addition, and it's a growing concern according to some experts in the audience studies, communications, law enforcement/security and psychology fields. A few years back several academics in the US and the UK did studies on what they called "Celebrity Worship Syndrome...results were pretty mixed...with much of it shifting to the negative.
Yes, you can hear about obsession in its extreme such as John David Chapman killing John Lennon, or people attempting to assasinate presidents to impress other celebrities, but yet celebrity obsession is not just an "American" thing as some would believe, either. It's very much an international issue...celebrity obsession and stalking has become a problem in Britain and other parts of Europe. Australian TV plans to run a series on the issue of fame, stalking and obsession next month...so it's also an issue there, too.
Asia has its own unique problems with celebrity obsession that you don't see or hear much about in the rest of the world. Sometimes, the celebrity obsession thing over there can get very intense and ugly, too. In Japan, there's actually a derogatory word for such an obsession: Okatu. It's usually geared towards Anime fans, but can also refer to celebrity obsessed folks as well
A few true stories reported in the Asian media but didn't quite make to the mainstream US or European media:
In S. Korea, a pop star called U-Know was nearly poisoned by an anti-fan. She put super glue into a drink she gave him! The likelihood of stars meeting anti-fans there are just as strong as meeting regular fans.
In India, fans were very upset because Shilpa Shettyone of their top Bollywood stars and Richard Gere kissed! An action that no one in the US or Europe would even give a second though. Yet, the upset re: this specific breach of Indian culture and tradition escalated to the point of protests and effigy burning in some communities there. There were even calls for Gere's arrest!
In China last year, there was a gal, Yang Lijuan, who was so obsessed by an actor named Andy Lau that her family actually SOLD their house to go to hong kong for a meet and greet. This woman had been obsessed by Lau since age 16, and had actually dropped out of school to make the full time observation of him her career! The 29 year old woman complained to her father about how unhappy she was about getting to have only a few minutes with the star. The father wrote Lau a 12 page letter saying that it was the celebrity's fault that his family was now homeless and in ruins...and then the dad jumped off a bridge and killed himself! The gal tried to say it was the star's fault her dad was dead...and was STILL demanding to spend time with him. Crazy, no? This story was the talk of China and other parts of Asia for quite a while.
Sad thing here is that such nutjobs around the world give regular fans of celebrities a bad name. People figure if one is psycho and obsessed then they ALL must be psycho and obsessed...and that's just simply not fair.
People are attracted to celebrity news because it's an "escape" from actual news, but sometimes it's an escape that seems to becoming something of an addition, and it's a growing concern according to some experts in the audience studies, communications, law enforcement/security and psychology fields. A few years back several academics in the US and the UK did studies on what they called "Celebrity Worship Syndrome...results were pretty mixed...with much of it shifting to the negative.
Yes, you can hear about obsession in its extreme such as John David Chapman killing John Lennon, or people attempting to assasinate presidents to impress other celebrities, but yet celebrity obsession is not just an "American" thing as some would believe, either. It's very much an international issue...celebrity obsession and stalking has become a problem in Britain and other parts of Europe. Australian TV plans to run a series on the issue of fame, stalking and obsession next month...so it's also an issue there, too.
Asia has its own unique problems with celebrity obsession that you don't see or hear much about in the rest of the world. Sometimes, the celebrity obsession thing over there can get very intense and ugly, too. In Japan, there's actually a derogatory word for such an obsession: Okatu. It's usually geared towards Anime fans, but can also refer to celebrity obsessed folks as well
A few true stories reported in the Asian media but didn't quite make to the mainstream US or European media:
In S. Korea, a pop star called U-Know was nearly poisoned by an anti-fan. She put super glue into a drink she gave him! The likelihood of stars meeting anti-fans there are just as strong as meeting regular fans.
In India, fans were very upset because Shilpa Shettyone of their top Bollywood stars and Richard Gere kissed! An action that no one in the US or Europe would even give a second though. Yet, the upset re: this specific breach of Indian culture and tradition escalated to the point of protests and effigy burning in some communities there. There were even calls for Gere's arrest!
In China last year, there was a gal, Yang Lijuan, who was so obsessed by an actor named Andy Lau that her family actually SOLD their house to go to hong kong for a meet and greet. This woman had been obsessed by Lau since age 16, and had actually dropped out of school to make the full time observation of him her career! The 29 year old woman complained to her father about how unhappy she was about getting to have only a few minutes with the star. The father wrote Lau a 12 page letter saying that it was the celebrity's fault that his family was now homeless and in ruins...and then the dad jumped off a bridge and killed himself! The gal tried to say it was the star's fault her dad was dead...and was STILL demanding to spend time with him. Crazy, no? This story was the talk of China and other parts of Asia for quite a while.
Sad thing here is that such nutjobs around the world give regular fans of celebrities a bad name. People figure if one is psycho and obsessed then they ALL must be psycho and obsessed...and that's just simply not fair.
Is there an "ICON" personality in USA of our days whoes moral authority is generally accepted?
Marcus
there was Martin Luther King for blacks in the past, there was Ghandi in India, Pope John Paul the Second for Catholics, there is Nelson Mandela in South Africa , Brits worship their Queen, .....what about USA in this respect today?
Answer
Not really, US society is rather immoral and materialistic, looking up only to shallow celebrities and the gossip magazines that tear them down.
Not really, US society is rather immoral and materialistic, looking up only to shallow celebrities and the gossip magazines that tear them down.
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