Nowadays, young people admire sports stars though they often do not set a good example Flashcards

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Nowadays, young people admire sports stars though they often do not set a good example. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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introduction:
- Top sports athletes are often poor role models, they gain the admiration of millions of youngsters.

  • could be profitable only if the young disregard the negative and focus on the positive aspects.
    + Ronaldo > undergo a long time of intensive training > living proof of working hard to archive goals < good
    + raise awareness about important issues > use their famous to attract attention < they have a lot of fans.
    + ice bucket challenge < raise charity for LSD disease
  • This is generally an adverse trend because of ….
    + Top sports athletes have a wide range of bad lifestyle > dangerous for kids to copy
    + Sports stars are rich < make ppl think making money is easy < spend money supported from family

Conclusion:
- Youngsters may learn some useful life experiences from top athletes >< the trend of admiring and imitating these stars may result in a wide range of adverse effects

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