Consumption culture in today's America 13 Articles

by Brenda Bowers

Our English speaking world, and especially we in the United States are suffering from a killer disease. A killer disease that I will call Affluenza because it came about when the general population became affluent and in...read more

by Micah Myers

If we break it down to monetary value, Americans consume more in a day than most of the world's population consumes in a year. That's the gasoline and car you get around in. It's the electricity bill you pay for the hair...read more

by Paul Macdonald

Britain has been fascinated by America and its World outlook for some time. It wants to see itself as a refined, less outrageous version of its portly older brother. Britain still believes it has a level of integrity, and ...read more

by Andrew Spriggs

For the most part, America's free market economy creates a positive exchange of goods and services people want for affordable prices...and it seems like everyone wins. After all, entrepreneurs, workers, and the like, get p...read more

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by Cheri Long

My most comfortable pair of Reeboks were excruciating and my tongue was a piece of tattered felt; I could kill for a G & T but day's end would be but a leg of the journey. Was I at war, in the trenches, ready for another ...read more

by Melinda Mellem

America's consumption culture can be described in 2 words; immediate gratification. From an early age it is embedded in our minds that if we need anything we can simply get in our gas guzzling cars and drive to the local W...read more

by Rob Purifoy

As an American and as much as I think we are being controlled by the government, sometimes I have to take a second look. Some of our cities have adopted recycling programs by which we put typical waste in one container and...read more

by Francesca Hernandez

America is not addicted to oil, it is addicted to everything. We want everything, we want it now, and by God, we want a lot of it! The level of consumption in America is, in short, grotesque. There are a lot of reasons for...read more

by Margret Carswell

All of us think we are driven to consume, urged by what we read, what we see. Could it be that somewhere deep inside us a little voice tells us we must have this item- right now. It isn't the TV ads, the radio hype ...read more

by Jennifer Abeyta

Consumption is the culture of America today. Everything is about consumption. For every hour of television we watch we are subjected to approximately 16 minutes of commercials. All telling us that newer more expensive t...read more

by Jesse Whitworth

I'd just like to say thanks to a few people who have made my life so amazing. I'd like to thank the Mexicans for jalapeno cheese sauce. I'd like to thank the Chinese for general tso's chicken. I'd like to thank most of Sou...read more

by Evan Carden

Is America a consumption oriented culture? Yes. To be fair, I've only lived in Washington so maybe other states are better. I wouldn't know. I do know that the consensus is that America is a consumption oriented culture. T...read more

by Emily Monaco

Consumption culture in today's America is easy to observe, not only by regarding America and Americans, but by looking east, towards western Europe, where globalization (or "Americanization" is quickly turning once sociali...read more