пятница, 10 апреля 2009 г.

Wife Shopping

You can go shopping for a wife for just a few thousand dollars these days. Overseas women are looking for American husbands to help get them out of their country and bring them to the United States. In return for marriage you are guaranteed three years with the wife you’ve been shopping for. Many men find this an attractive alternative to the harsh realities of the dating game. Some men even go so far as to shop for multiple wives at once and simply take the first one with a cleared visa.It takes a little bit of money to go wife shopping. Usually the overall cost is around ten thousand dollars for an international wife. Russia, Vietnam, and Cambodia are the three most visited countries for wife shopping. The internet has made it completely possible to go wife shopping without ever leaving the country.There are many women’s rights groups and human rights organizations that are adamantly opposed to the concept of wife shopping. However, who is to say that if a woman is willing to get married and leave her family behind that she isn’t doing so voluntarily. Anyone can tell when a woman is no more than a girl and when the girl is being forced into something simply by her lack of eager behavior, her photograph, and her general innocence. The state you live in will prevent the sale of a child for such purposes and she still has to clear the country’s requirements in order to get in. Yet there are plenty of people who say that wife shopping has forced young women into positions that cater to danger. It’s an interesting argument, one that threatens to break the bounds of what we consider to be the norm on our society.

пятница, 27 февраля 2009 г.

Shopping

Shopping became an entire culture in last decades. It's not only buying some necessary things, it's also a way to reduce stress. People buy a lot of just useless things to feel better and cheer up looking at them. There's even such an illness: people who can't live without shopping are called shopaholics.
To tell the truth, you don't need so much money to make a living, to eat good food, wear quality clothes and pay all your bills. But most of your money is spent off on useless things. However, there are some advices, how to make your shopping more effective and less expensive.
Don't go shopping alone, in a bad mood and being hungry. Always make a list of things you should have and take only the sum of money you're going to spend. If there are discounts, spend the rest of money on your own (e.g. to relax in a cafй or save them. Ask the shop assistant to help you, they often have a good taste and can give a useful advice, so that you won't buy a thing that doesn't fit you. Get rid of useless things in your house, which you don't like, and you will see what you need and what you don't. Try to follow these advices, and you'll see you have more money than ever.
And how do you go shopping?

понедельник, 12 января 2009 г.

Shopping and our needs

We go shopping almost every day. This occupation is pleasant for us and gives us many pleasant moments. These moments are our main motive for going shopping. If we took into account only our material needs, we would visit shops once a week. However, we must admit that we buy things not because we really need them, but because we are under the powerful influence of advertisement. Advertisement creates false inner incentives in us and we buy the advertised products, though later we understand that we don’t really need them. Thus we are exposed to advertisement every day involuntary. We can come across it everywhere: on our way to work, in public transport, while watching TV and so on. This constant pressure and load on our brain can’t remain unnoticed by both our consciousness and subconsciousness. We become zombies and robots, which can’t think but can fulfill instructions only. The role of instructions is successfully played by advertisement. We think that we are free and do what we want. This is one of the illusions, we find comfort in. We are manipulated so professionally and successfully that we don’t even notice this obvious fact. Due to the processes of globalization, people in different countries of the world buy the same products, produced by famous and widely advertised corporations. Just imagine, people belonging to different traditions and cultures buy the same, i.e. act the same and become identical to each other.