You can see this when another nation, like Iran, has national heroes that are actual living, breathing people. Westerners get all freaked out by it and call it a "cult of personality" or whatever, because they legitimately cannot imagine having reverence and respect for the accomplishments of a human being, only fictional characters.
You can see this when another nation, like Iran, has national heroes that are actual living, breathing people. Westerners get all freaked out by it and call it a "cult of personality" or whatever, because they legitimately cannot imagine having reverence and respect for the accomplishments of a human being, only fictional characters.
They can, but only long dead & whitewashed historical ones, which may as well be fictional.