RR2
Disi Kou
RR2
06/17/2015
“The American Consumer: Is Everything for Sale?”
After reading the article “Is the Holiday Season Too Materialistic?” by Amel Saleh, I agree with him because it happens around us. For example, on Christmas each family send gifts to others, they will remove the price tag so nobody will know how much it cost. People should care about spending the great time with their families but not worry about what gifts they should buy. People like the holidays because they know they are going to get presents from others, but they almost forget that holiday is a day that to have great time for hang out. Children expect toys or shoes as their presents from their family on holidays but this is not what holidays should be. This is what I agree with the author, holidays in nowadays are too materialistic. In his article, Amel believes that behind the holiday purely materialistic, and it should have no gifts, but spending time with the one they love and create memories is more important. Most importantly, he explains in December it should be a symbol of a sense of accomplishment, thanks throughout the year and hang out with their families and friends, and the least things should be, is the presents. In Amel’s article he explains that children in the United States are being raised in a culture in which materialism and commercialism run rampant. Children are conditioned to believe that their identity is formed by what they have rather than who they are or who they want to become. The desire for material goods is embedded in American children from an early age and it grows stronger as they age so that as teenagers and as adults they are far more concerned with commercial products and obtaining material things than they are concerned about the world around them or with their own self-worth as human beings. These children are conditioned to believe that happiness and fulfillment can only come from possessions and the constant struggle to procure things that they
RR2
06/17/2015
“The American Consumer: Is Everything for Sale?”
After reading the article “Is the Holiday Season Too Materialistic?” by Amel Saleh, I agree with him because it happens around us. For example, on Christmas each family send gifts to others, they will remove the price tag so nobody will know how much it cost. People should care about spending the great time with their families but not worry about what gifts they should buy. People like the holidays because they know they are going to get presents from others, but they almost forget that holiday is a day that to have great time for hang out. Children expect toys or shoes as their presents from their family on holidays but this is not what holidays should be. This is what I agree with the author, holidays in nowadays are too materialistic. In his article, Amel believes that behind the holiday purely materialistic, and it should have no gifts, but spending time with the one they love and create memories is more important. Most importantly, he explains in December it should be a symbol of a sense of accomplishment, thanks throughout the year and hang out with their families and friends, and the least things should be, is the presents. In Amel’s article he explains that children in the United States are being raised in a culture in which materialism and commercialism run rampant. Children are conditioned to believe that their identity is formed by what they have rather than who they are or who they want to become. The desire for material goods is embedded in American children from an early age and it grows stronger as they age so that as teenagers and as adults they are far more concerned with commercial products and obtaining material things than they are concerned about the world around them or with their own self-worth as human beings. These children are conditioned to believe that happiness and fulfillment can only come from possessions and the constant struggle to procure things that they