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Consumer culture has without a doubt affected my education.
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Consumer culture has without a doubt affected my education. Education involves many things we value, and much of what we value has been bought. Whether it be the calculators we use in math class or the texts we read in English, commodities are helping teach us to do things. On another level however , consumer culture affects our personal education in that we act and think differently than we might if our culture was less about that which can be bought or sold. Much of this is due to the coverage of events presented by the Mass Media. We watch people on a screen and learn from what they are doing. Some events are blown out of proportion and some are swept under the rug. We are faced with the difficult job of deciding for ourselves what knowledge is important for us to retain and what we should ignore....
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