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Quote (fodive @ Oct. 01 2002,8:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">hows is this just american culture, every culture is like that some way, like loren says in thepost below, in france, its still about apperance, just clothing, instead of cars, i think its human nature for people to want to look good, and have their possesions look good...JMHO, its not just america, its everywhere</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Understood; I don't mean to realllly attack Americans, but I do it a lot without really thinking. ... so firstly, no offence to the majority of you (us). <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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On the other hand, I stand by my comment in that America, as we all know, is the heart and soul of consumerism; I don't think there's more of a one-track consumer culture anywhere other than the US, it's all around us! You need to have the nicest clothes, the fastest car, look slim, fit, be large breasted (for the women out there) and so on and so forth... heck, what have we come to when people
pay for breast enhancement, and you can't go about your own thing if it isn't acceptable to society?
America is great, I would never give up the democratic system or free market economy, but they come with a price tag. (no pun intended) As "free" as we are to do and say what we like, we're still oppressed - it's not the legal system or government that 'limits' our expression, it's society itself; it's our mind forged manacles that make us lemmings of society.
(For those who don't know, I borrowred from Blake)