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In a return to old fashioned values, New Zealand youth are admiring skill, determination and achievement above wealth and fame.
The most respected heroes and icons are Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Sir Edmund Hillary, Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. Jesus and God are the highest ranking religious figures.
Youthtown commissioned Point Research to perform the online survey of 800 New Zealand teens, asking 55 questions about their lives, relationships and futures. The “Voice of New Zealand’ survey aimed to find a youth voice to discover more about how young people really feel about themselves, what they think and what matters most to them.
The qualities youth admire in their role models are skill, success, intelligence, personality, perseverance and values and beliefs.
Researcher Alex Woodley says it shows the country’s youth hold strong values and aren’t simply aspiring to be rich and famous.
“It’s the values of perseverance and working hard to be successful. They want to contribute to a better world and the role models they are looking up to are different from the role models we are expecting them to look up to. The values they hold strongly are really positive values,” Ms Woodley said.
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