Why do you agree or disagree with this statement?
paper doll asked:
“Shopping (in malls, online catalogues, etc.) forms a person’s identity.”
and
“Walking from one window to another, observing one another, shoppers…aquire a facility with the language or commodities. They learn not only words but a grammar. Shop windows employ elements of scarcasm and irony, strategies of inversion and allusion. They provide models of elegant, economical, florid, and prosaic expression. They teach composition.”
I’m writing an academic argument paper on this, so if you could be as detailed as possible, that would be great!
Thank you so much!
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2 Responses to “Why do you agree or disagree with this statement?”
Everything about our life forms our identity. Everything we see, everybody we encounter……they all make up who we are. I don’t know that I would necessarily give shopping as much power as this statement is suggesting. I don’t think it affects us any more than any other recreational thing we do. The statement makes it seem as if we are all in some hypnotic trance everytime we enter the doors of the mall.
I mean, yes, there are marketing strategies employed by each store to lure us in and make us want to buy their product, but this statement describes it as the Animal Planet channel would describe a tiger roaming the jungle. When I am at the mall……….I’m just shoppin’.
Honestly, I hate malls, Everything is over priced, to much walking and not enough bargains. To many people, no “good” places to eat (unless you like orange julias and Oriental food) I like to go to strip malls sometimes. I chose a few stores and go shopping. The days of walking around in the big huge shopping mall was over for me after my teens. Back then it was all social anyway…..I was not there to shop. I was socializing.