For many people, it is all about show. Live for today, and worry about the bills tomorrow. Meanwhile, they think they are impressing everyone with their "wealth" and symbols of "status".
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Foreigners consider Americans more materialistic than Americans would be likely to consider themselves. ... Why are Americans so racist? How can you justify putting Native Americans on reservations when the whole country belongs to them? ... Why are Americans so materialistic? Why are they so wasteful of natural resources?
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On the other, I find the basic message to be somewhat materialistic and simplistic in nature. Yet, there seems to be this rising trend of people interested in what is called the ... And so, while most Americans are extremely prosperous compared to 99% of the world, they are probably also unhappier than much of the world.
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Though materialism can be traced as far back as Hegel, an early philosopher, Marx was the first to apply materialistic ideas to human societies in a quasi-anthropological manner. Marx developed the concept of dialectical materialism borrowing his dialectics from Hegel and his materialism from others.
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Americans Are Materialistic, Thank God! ... In this time of crisis, Americans are encouraged to keep buying. Many are doing so to the point of sacrifice. People need jobs, schools need money from taxes, factories must buy materials, and hospitals need to pay their staff.
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How to know when you're materialistic. ... You'll see materialistic people in public everyday. ... It's when nothing you have is good enough for you, but it still is good enough to make you think you're better than other people.
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Web Search Results for "Materialistic Americans" ... Dynamist Blog: Should Americans Be More Materialistic?; LISTEN to the jobs debate carefully, and you might get the idea that the problem with the economy is that Americans just are not materialistic enough.
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Compared to the rest of the world, Americans seem to me to be very childish, self-absorbed, materialistic, greedy and fat. I'm an American too so I'm not excluding myself. Why is it so acceptable in American society and culture to be so selfish?
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But — the underreported story in our materialistic age — in countries where nearly everyone can afford life's necessities, ... We have twice as many cars per person. We eat out two and a half times as often. Compared to the late 1950s when few Americans had dishwashers, clothes dryers, or air conditioning, most do today. So,
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