Materialism is a matter of luxury.  People can’t afford things they need in their lives, but still they find a way to pay for their luxuries.  Whatever happened to as long as we’re healthy?  That is not and option anymore, now it’s not enough to be healthy.  Now you need, Nike shoes, Coach purses, Armani clothe, Channel sunglasses.  It’s never enough.  People go out of their way to follow a trend.  It’s surprising now a day how flexible people get when the word money comes around.  Materialism has really taken over the country.

            Today everything is needs versus wants, unfortunately the wants has a higher vote in our greedy nation and society.  People just got to have what they want.  Unfortunately it got to the point were people kill for their materialistic desires.  Pride has overcome principles in ways that hurts me to think about.  People are prioritizing on things that they won’t be able to take or be remembered by once they’re gone from this world. 

            Advertising definitely has a great affect on the materialistic growth on the United States.  Imagine how much easier it would be it there weren’t anyone telling you what is better for you to use, and why you should pay more for it.  It would be a lot more of an individual choice.  Materialism is rather society making the choice for you then you making the choice for yourself.  The advertisement show that you a less of a person if you are not using the product that they are promoting.  Which for the people’s vulnerable minds, it works perfect.  For people who believe that a simple human being is more special because he or she is on television, it’s very easy to make them believe that if you don’t use the same deodorant they do you are so much less.

            What you wear, how you wear it, and the reason why you buy what you buy tells a lot about you, although some people already lost their won identity because they follow so much trend and advertisement that they are no longer an individual.  Little do we know we are only one more form of advertisement.  Foolish expensive choices we make are only one more way to promote what really doesn’t make a difference if we use it or not.  We make the trend, if it doesn’t catch, it’s not a trend. 

            Another thing that amazes me is how easily people get rid of things that are in perfectly good use.  Not only the society became materialists but also compulsive buyers, if something breaks, even if it’s something simple, or you can still use it, we still buy it new.  It’s so hard for people to walk into the mall and leave empty handed.  Buying has become so much more of a pleasing hobby than a necessity.   Even through an economic crisis, with no money, people still manage to find a way to support their luxuries, and afford what they don’t need.

            In conclusion, yes, the United States is definitely a materialistic country.  I say the tendency in to get worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better.  From their childhood they already grow up learning the difference from what’s defined as good and bad.  From childhood they are judged buy what they were, were they live, and even what they eat.  People have learned to want always the best, and their foolish minds always believe that that’s the most expensive.  You could have the two same exact shirt, but their always going to buy the designers one.  All they are doing is paying for the tag, paying for their pride and their ego, paying for their luxuries, and paying for a much worse world in which to raise our kids in, which is a fantasy world, where nothing really matters but the selfishness of a human being.  I say only the future will show, lets hope it won’t be to late!