The Consumerism in United States

Today's society in all around the world seems to be consumed by the consumerism. Even though Having abundance of things people always seem to want more than that. In The United States people spend more time shopping than attending religious services, reading books or doing other activities in their free time. With the marketing world growing larger by day it seems more and more people are attracted to the advertised products and feel the need to have them in order to keep in style with the rest of society. The young generation is one of the most attracted group by the advertisements. To prevent that this young generation fall in the consumerism, In the United States people under 21 years old should not be allow have a credit card, an idea that I totally support Young people might easily lose their true values a cause of the consumerism. Today's young people are becoming very materialism because of the consumerism. This group of people usually likes to have the most expensive things such as, computers, phones, clothes, etc. Whit the idea of having more and more they are losing the importance of the real values such as love, modesty, responsibility,etc. For example, a lot of students in high school and college have the wrong idea that by wearing expensive clothes, rings, watches, or having the most expensive phones and computers they are better than the other students. The human values are the most important nor the material things. Having a credit card young people can easily lose control and fall in the consumerism. Nowadays we can find ads every where such as magazines, television, internet, billboards, and many others. With all of the marketing strategies this group of people is the most susceptible group to fall into the consumerism circle. As is known the young people like buy always the most new things that appears in the market not mattering if it is expensive. If they have the freedom to have a credit car they will buy waterer they want and never stop. This problem obvious will have many future effects in their lives. Consumerism can affect the young people relationships. Most of the young people always get confused about what the importance of a relationship because of the consumerism. At the beginning of a relationship people use many strategies to attract more their love ones, sometimes they give them gifs or invite to nice places. But not in all the cases it happens that way. For example Today's young generation has the wrong idea that if the boyfriend does not buy to his girlfriend a nice and expensive present she thinks that he does not love her, which of course will affect their relationship. The consumerism is a big problem to dial with in a relationship which affect a lot people's feelings. In conclusion, the consumerism is one of the biggest problem in today's society which need to be work on it very hard. First, in order prevent consumerism in young people, we should start by not giving credit cars to them since they are the most susceptible group that could fall in the consumerism. It is important that the young generation focus more in the real values not in the materialism.