A Respectful Role Model

Lee Hom Wang (born May 17, 1976) is an American-born-singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, and film director of Chinese descent based in Taiwan, definitely known as a Jack-of-all-trades. He was born in New York and started music at a very young age. He wrote his own songs and can play multiple musical instruments particularly the violin. He had won multiple awards and plays an important role in the music industry. He had also participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. He was the torch bearer number 17 on March 24, 2008. His single 'One World One Dream' was chosen as the Olympic Games participant song too.

Besides that, Lee Hom is very active in participating World Vision charities and he personally sponsored over 20+ under privilege children. Besides that, he also visited countries like Laos and Sierra Leone to raise awareness about the state of poverty. With his compassionate attitude towards the least fortunate, he had definitely implied good values in every soul of his fans. Many fans had learnt to be grateful for what they have now and who they are through him. Therefore, this enables him to gain even more fans from all over the world.

If teenagers were to emulate the aspects above, I believe this will build greater self esteem and optimistic characteristics that can be applied in their daily life. With this attitude shown by Lee Hom, they too will be influenced to learn, to love and to cherish everyone around them despite any individual's status. The fact that he does charitable work can also influence the young to follow in his good footsteps. As for negative effects, fans may get overly obsessed with their idol, Lee Hom that they may forget about reality. People will start to lose their identities, for example Asians like us who start to follow Korean culture especially teenagers.

As an agent of socialization, media portray Lee Hom as a celebrity who is so dearly respected and loved by all his fan. Many of them looked up to him for all his good deeds that he had contributed in many charity events. Wang Lee Hom is also recognized for his effort and financial contributions for the charity. He definitely portray a great deal of positive effects towards the society and all his fans around the world.

In conclusion, every individuals have their own favourite idols. As fans of our chosen idol, Lee Hom, we should show oue respect and appreciation towards him as he participated by contributing in terms of financial and effort in most of the charity events held. Not only that, he had been releasing Taiwan, Japanese and compilation albums these years. This shows that he is one of the famous celebrity in Taiwan as well as Japan. Its difficult for one idol to be really popular like Lee Hom as it needs a period of time for people around the world, especially Taiwan and Japan to get to know him. This can influence his fans to be more hard working, responsible and reliable. Even so, fans should not always follow their idols habits blindly and apply into their reality because it could build up a negative attitude in our society.