Word: consumerized
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The weddings Chang documents seem to have little in common with Western traditional notions of what a marriage should be: a photogenic celebration of love between soul mates, suitable for framing. These brokered arrangements are cross-border business transactions between a rich place and a poor country, set up to...
China has grown into the world's made-to-order contract manufacturer, source of more than half the world's output of toys, radios, DVD players, telephones, cameras, and much more. But while most of that production is legitimate?China's factories are paid by foreign companies to mass-produce...
3.4% Increase in U.S. consumer spending on books in 2004, compared with 2003
17.3% Increase in consumer spending on religious books during the same period, accounting for most of the overall change
That's not a bad way to describe Cincinnati, Ohio, 1963, a teeming meditation on that much contested ground, the American Dream. A bedroom set greets us in a store window. At its foot there's a slapdash cornucopia of consumer goods: radios, a record player, power tools. In the...