dilluns, 27 de gener del 2020

Opinion Essay - Black Friday, Judith Rial




Black Friday is the day after the US holiday of Thanksgiving, regarded as the first day of the Christmas shopping season, on which retailers make many special offers, and nowadays a lot of countries in the world had adopted this habit one week per year. Sadly, we take part in this insanity within the call of a holiday, as though buying presents was an ideal way to rejoice Christmas.

Consumerism is the purchase or accumulation of goods and services considered non-essential, which describes at all christmas and, with it, the Black Friday “holiday”. Every year, people are normalising them more and more, which makes all together a very consuming society, demonstrating that we have a lack criteria many times and that big industries have put us in the head that despite being a worker class we have to spend for unnecessary things which only perpetuate consumerism that damage our world and the environment with it.

But thankfully we've options: Instead of embracing Black Friday, we all can refuse to shop for material objects for humans to display our love; rather, we  can exhibit our love, caring, and affection through every day actions—every day, now not simply holidays or festivities.

In conclusion, i believe we should stop trying to be people we are not and try to emphazise with small shops and not to give so much importance to a day in our lifes, which makes us seem as crazy.

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