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The topic claims that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the people that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models. Basically, I agree with this claim insofar as the term heroes or role models indicates the society's highest ideals. The term heroes or role models tends to be interpreted in many different ways such as political leaders or religious leaders; therefore, defining the term is of vital importance in order to avoid rambling discussion. Having defined the term, it is now clear that a political leader or a religious leader reveal a society's highest ideals. Indeed, if we look around with unprejudiced eye, we notice that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals .
The chief reason for my agreement with this topic is as follows: family is the smallest unit of society. However, character of people depends on their upbringing and how they are brought up in their society. In other words, the way they react to situations or how they act what they believe in is reflection of how they were saw by the society.
It must be obvious to anyone's eyes that character of the society's highest ideals have big influence towards their society. And if we analyze how the society's highest ideals influence the character of a society, we realize that they influence people by their personalities and behavior. They can change the character of a society. This is the reason why I insist that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals. Let us consider two examples to further verify this assertion.
The first example is George W.Bush. He started War in Afghanistan and Iraq War for the revenge of the September 11 attacks. He was aggressive and try to show America's strength towards any other countries around the world. But the Afghanistan and Iraq War has only cause the world to be more chaos. There is apparently no one gained profit during the war, only mass of death. President George W.Bush can fully express the character of America. They want to show off their power and make them the strongest country among any other countries.
I next turn to the example of Mother Teresa. She is the first nun who roamed the world and she is doing good especially to children and spreading her kindness and love all over the world. She is also a role model of Christian societies and uplift the belief of people to do good by showing us how it should be done. Not only Christian societies impressed by her kindness and love, but also people do not have religious belief take her as a role model.
In summary, I would like to stress that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals. Political leaders, religious leaders, famous celebrities, etc., each kind of person could be the society's highest ideals. Without the society's highest ideals, people will lose their direction and the society would be chaos. Thus, the society's highest ideals not only represent the character of a society, but they also needed by ordinal citizens.(569 words)
