How Consumerism Affects Children

Yes, our genes do in fact contribute to our futures. They reflect in the way we look, our voice, maybe what we like to eat, or our natural talents, but most of what we are comes from our surroundings and the people and things in our lives. Much like the baby in the above photo, we are branded when we are very very young. Companies have logos and jingles that get stuck in our heads and are repeated over and over to us from the time we are young children up to our adult lives. The people in our society just want money and influence over us and will do anything they can to get it. Leading companies use inviting media and appealing images to get kids to beg their parents to get them that new toy or new device. In a movie we watched about child consumers, it showed that even things that may have been marked as inappropriate in the past, are now no longer marked as that. My brother and his friends, who are 9 years old, play violent, and very expensive video games, and my parents don't really think much about it, and i did not either, until i realized how this could affect my brother. Kids obviously know that the games and movies are fake, but it is still embedded in their minds that it is somewhere acceptable to behave in such a violent matter. For girls, unlike boys, the media teaches young girls to be sexy and vulnerable which leads to them feeling dominated and inferior to boys their own age.