According to National poll, only2.8% of Filipinos consider Pacquiao a hero,so it is a myth ?

To use the word hero, the recipient have to be dead. Manny is not a hero. That was just being used to put more weight to what they want to express. Worship likewise was being use the same way. Filipinos worship nobody but the Guy above being a predominantly catholic country. All these was just being used as a stronger word but not really in the real sense unless they belong to those who don't understand what they were saying.