Discuss “Celebrities wrongly overshadow real-life heroes”

When we think of heroes, we think of firefighters, Gandhi, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Neil Armstrong. Of course, popular movie stars and television personas come up from time to time as well. But when I hear someone mention that Paris Hilton is her hero, I stop and think to myself how ridiculous the idea is.

How can someone like Paris Hilton earn a status alongside remarkable figures like Mother Teresa when one of her most significant accomplishments (if you can even call it one) was starring in a sex tape? Seriously, who did she have to sleep with in order to earn her spot in the highly acclaimed Hero Hall of Fame?

A recent national survey conducted on teens? views of heroes found that half of the heroes that teenagers named were well-known...