When I turn on the television, and tune to the news, I always see the news anchors and various experts, politician saying the general idea: Consumerism is good, because it helps the economy expanding. And in the spirit of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I went shopping for some… stuff. However, I saw an article from CTW news, “Made-in-Canada Buy Nothing Day takes aim at Black Friday consumer excess” and the video “The High Price of Materialism” in my Composition 11 class. The names talk for themselves. Consumerism is the idea of, according to Cambrigde Dictionary, the situation in with a society advance it’s economy and itself through constant buying and selling good. However, when I was first shown the pictures of containers of trashes from Canada in my Social 10 class, left over in a harbour of Philippines, I began to ask one thing: Is it worth it, for our environment and our society? I began to think. Everytime I buy something. Everytime that I show my friends that I have something. On the scale of 1-10, I would rate myself… 6.5. I particularly not really care about the fashion world, or anything that is outside my range of interest. On the other hand, if I wanted something I interest about, I will save up and get that item. I also only buy anything that is essential. I admit that I desire to shop, and I sometime waste money on stuff that I really don’t need at all. As it turn out, I am quite materialistic, eh?
Source Cited
MacLeod, Meredith. “Made-in-Canada Buy Nothing Day Takes Aim at Black Friday Consumer Excess.” CTVNews, CTV News, 29 Nov. 2019, https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/made-in-canada-buy-nothing-day-takes-aim-at-black-friday-consumer-excess-1.4708081.
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