They include celebrity culture and the media, which teach Americans that they're entitled to be famous.
Looking through it, Brazil's celebrity culture appears similar to a Western European or American one.
Yet, the celebrity culture masks one of the most worrying trends in society in recent years.
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China's growing wealth, and its obsession with celebrity culture, is fuelling the increase.
The availability of non-surgical treatments has helped to normalise cosmetic procedures, fuelled by the celebrity culture which pervades much of the media.
"In many ways, they announce their success with the items that they buy, " explains Ellis Cashmore, author of Celebrity Culture.
He is currently completing a new book, his 21st, to be called "State of England" a raucous fictional investigation into celebrity culture.
But Ellis Cashmore, author of Celebrity Culture, argues that staging a comeback is far easier for some than it is for others.
While the media overtly abhors it, in the very same breath it laps up the glamorised celebrity culture that cocaine helps perpetuate.
Shapiro has a good ear for the quote bites of contemporary celebrity culture, and the courage to set out on this endless sea.
Teenage girls also faced confusing views of what success looked like, with the celebrity culture distorting how it could be achieved, she said.
Once a would-be Britney, Simpson had made little impact in the celebrity culture until 2003, when the MTV cameras arrived at her house.
Experts agree that celebrity culture also offers something for people to feel connected to, although Bailey cautioned that recognition is different from relationships.
He is often seen as the godfather of celebrity culture, in that from the outset he was noted chiefly for being Oscar Wilde.
But perhaps the biggest social phenomenon of the noughties was the rise of celebrity culture, and the world of literature was not immune.
His success inspired cancer patients worldwide, spreading his reach far beyond the insular world of cycling and cementing his place in celebrity culture.
The glamorous young couple, who regularly feature on the cover of glossy magazines are also attractive to a slice of America which follows celebrity culture, she says.
But while social mobility has diminished in the new Labour years we have a plausible alternative - we have the illusion of social mobility in the celebrity culture.
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And while Twitter sometimes reveals the stupid side of celebrity culture, it's also brought fans closer to their favorite actors, musicians, writers and athletes than was ever possible before.
It's no secret that the old scarcity model of celebrity culture--regular people only got a glimpse of famous people, which made them want to see them that much more--vanished sometime in the CompuServe era.
There's always the blowhard at the Oscars party rolling his eyes, delivering a dull indictment of celebrity culture and yammering on about not having seen any of the films (all while hogging the artichoke dip).
"Up until then, the studios owned the artists and had unspoken agreements with celebrity magazines so they would tread lightly on people, " says Karen Steinheimer, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, and author of Celebrity Culture and the American Dream.
Unfortunately, our celebrity culture has placed a priority on public excess, the insatiable need to be richer than the next guy, keep up with the private equity billionaires, the hip-hop entrepreneurs with diamonds in their ear lobes, the Donald Trumps of the world.
In today's celebrity-obsessed culture, why choose an animated creature to shill your brand when nearly every bold-faced star seems willing to lend their name and Hollywood good looks to products?
If anything, his time hugging the corners of fame made him seem even more admirable as a man who refused to sell himself or his legacy out, no matter what temptations were available in a celebrity-crazed culture.
In a celebrity-saturated culture, it can be difficult for adults to draw the line between what is acceptable behavior and what may work in the fantasy land that exists in the Hollywood Hills, but isn't actually real-world appropriate.
That lack of experience can be damaging as stars age, however, says David Haven Blake, author of the recently published Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity.
David Marshall, author of Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture.
That widespread fascination with the minutia of their lives earned the couple a spot atop Forbes' first-ever list of Hollywood's Most Influential Couples, a look at which celebrity pairings have the greatest impact on popular culture.
And it is even easier at a time when everybody is busy, everybody is stressed, and everybody -- our culture is obsessed with wealth and power and celebrity.
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