Muhammad Alshareef – How to Replace Spider-Man as Your Kids’ Role Model #shorts

			Basically, the role model is defined by the television, it's by the camera. So the people they get
that stage are the actors and actresses, they're the musicians and so on and so forth. So you look
at our children and our generation, it's like a whole nation of people are being raised up that this
is the role model. Now, back in the olden days, if you take out television out of the picture, then
who are the role models, those are people who are actively involved in the community, people who are
you know, doing good things in the community, that's the person that they see everywhere, because
you don't see actors and actresses everywhere. You see the leaders in the community, hence, say when
		

			I was growing up, somebody was a role model for me were like the older youth, the older boys in the
community who were doing activities in the local masjid. And I was able to, you know, absorb from
that. But if I was to go to a Muslim kid today, and say, who's your role model?
		

			You know, it's going to be Wolverine is going to be Spider Man. It's going to be something like
that.