A role model is a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated (imitated) by others, especially by younger people in the stage of adolescence.

The word role model can take on two types of dimensions or directions.

1: positive role models:

The first one is the positive role models,

which contributes towards the structuring of positive human traits in a society or community.

2: Negative role models:

And the second one is the negative type of role models (negative media celebrates),

such negative role models are always strategically planted, encouraged and rewarded with the aim of promoting negative social traits which divides the people, so that they may be ruled over by their colonial masters.

To lead by good example…

A person who possesses the competence of being able to discipline a team or number of people that will eventually become positive moral structures of a community or a society.

A person who plays the role of modeling or being a positive example to others.
The state of being a good father or a moral structured, faithful and loving husband.

One who leaves and passes down a legacy to his disciples.

Parent role models also significantly influence a person’s “education and training aspirations, task self-efficacy, and expectancy for an entrepreneurial career

But also this word “role model” has taken on another type of meaning due to the celebrity role models that are promoted via media and hype which is done with the aim to counterfeit and oppose the positive role models in a certain given society. 

Article written by Ap Alex Ngabo