Young people use social values to judge pop stars, poll

时间：2007-07-19 01:05:40

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Chinanews, Beijing, July 17 – The China Youth Daily Social Investigation1 Center and Tencent Information News recently carried out a survey about Chinese young people's attitudes towards pop stars. The survey shows that in choosing their favorite pop stars, most people focus on their talents (69.6%), next, or almost equally important, on their sense of social responsibility (69.4%), followed by their patriotism2 (65.9%), the love they display for the things they are doing (62.3%), and whether they are sympathetic to others (60.6%). Things like appearance are listed as one of the least important factors in people's choices for picking their favorite stars.

 

About 10,352 people took part in the survey, 95% of them under the age of 35.

 

“Whether a pop star will be liked by society or not depends on what he or she can bring to society. Although a person's ability plays an important part in it, other factors are equally important - what these stars do or say should conform with the main stream of social values,” a respondent said.

 

From this respondent's point of view, pop star might be different from one another in their personal styles; however, if they want other people to like them, they should have something in common: these include the sense of social responsibility, the sense of caring for public interests and a kind heart.

 

Only 9.3% of the respondents still think that traditional educational methods – which teach young people moral values by instilling3 ideas into them, still works. 51.8% of the people think that such methods might be out of date, although to some extent they are workable. 38.9% of the people think these methods become almost useless now.

 

On the other hand, celebrities4 and pop stars play an increasingly important role in helping5 young people to form their moral values.

 

In the survey, 39.5% of the respondents say they might be affected6 by celebrities or pop stars in forming their moral ideas; 26.1% of them hold that people's favorite celebrities, including pop stars, play the most important role in teaching adolescents about moral ideas. The percentage of people who favor pop stars in teaching young people about social values is only lower than those who pick up “parents” and higher than those who pick up “friends, classmates” and those who pick up “teachers”.

 

Although many of them think that many pop stars have too much rumours7, still 54.7% of the respondents think that the most popular stars are those that have both talents and social responsibilities.

 
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1 investigation MRKzq     
n.调查，调查研究
参考例句：
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
2 patriotism 63lzt     
n.爱国精神，爱国心，爱国主义
参考例句：
  • His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
  • They obtained money under the false pretenses of patriotism.他们以虚伪的爱国主义为借口获得金钱。
3 instilling 69e4adc6776941293f2cc5a38f66fa70     
v.逐渐使某人获得（某种可取的品质），逐步灌输( instil的现在分词 )；逐渐使某人获得（某种可取的品质），逐步灌输( instill的现在分词 )
参考例句：
  • Make sure your subordinates understand your sense of urgency and work toward instilling this in allsubordinates. 确保你的下属同样具备判断紧急事件的意识，在工作中潜移默化地灌输给他们。 来自互联网
4 celebrities d38f03cca59ea1056c17b4467ee0b769     
n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉
参考例句：
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
5 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
参考例句：
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
6 affected TzUzg0     
adj.不自然的，假装的
参考例句：
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
7 rumours ba6e2decd2e28dec9a80f28cb99e131d     
n.传闻( rumour的名词复数 )；风闻；谣言；谣传
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  • The rumours were completely baseless. 那些谣传毫无根据。
  • Rumours of job losses were later confirmed. 裁员的传言后来得到了证实。

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