That would be nice to think about, anyway, because the alternative, a future filled with vapid, self-centered, and spoiled "princesses" is difficult to comprehend or hope for.
Celebrity Culture
If there is one aspect of American culture that is difficult to comprehend, it is America's fascination with celebrity. The little girls who are growing up wanting to be princesses are seeing that lifestyle right before their eyes in the celebrities who fill the pages of magazines and the Internet - people like Paris Hilton and Ivanka Trump, who are famous simply because they are young, beautiful, and most important, wealthy. America is obsessed with Hollywood stars, too, and their lives are open books to the public who eat up paparazzi photos like so much Christmas candy. The history of celebrity culture may not be quite as lengthy as some of these other cultural phenomena, but it is also an aspect of society that is difficult to erase, because people are always fascinated with the wealthy, the famous, and the powerful. For example, George Washington was a celebrity in his own right at the time, and throughout history, there have been celebrities and those who admire them keeping them at the forefront of news and the media. For example, before film, writers and inventors, like Alexander Graham Bell and Mark Twain were celebrities, and when the film industry began, early film stars began the tradition of fascination with Hollywood celebrity. This changed when P.T. Barnum began promoting his circus acts as celebrities, as another writer notes. He says, "Americans once worshipped their heroes as a means of establishing a national character and identity, but in the mid-nineteenth century, Barnum created spectacles and celebrities out of not much more than sheer bravado" (Achterman). Thus, celebrity and what created celebrity changes as a result of media coverage and blatant promotion, and that is the type of celebrity that exists today. One writer notes, "At the same time, however, stars can function as sanctioned sites for ideological irruptions - that is, they can serve as comfortable cultural 'fictions' for social realities" (Negra 9). That helps to explain why people are fascinated with celebrities, they are a fine release from reality, and help create fantasies and imagination, something society always needs. However, this fan appreciation and fascination seems to have reached epic proportions in the last few decades.
This celebrity culture in America is helping to create a generation of obsessed fans who will do anything to emulate the stars...
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