Our children are not the same they used to be anymore, they know what they want and make lists to the good man. Long lists encouraged by the advertisements in the media.
I came to know about a seven years old girl that scared her mother to death when asked for condoms as Christmas gift, once she saw on TV that it would prevent her of having babies; so she came to the conclusion that if she used it, she wouldn’t get any other dolls as gift, because she already got five barbies…
Santa Claus was a creation of American cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1886, later released by a certain Cola's company, once on this cold season consumption diminished.
Santa Claus was a creation of American cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1886, later released by a certain Cola's company, once on this cold season consumption diminished.
The image of the good old man in red clothes and bag in the back, good-natured, giving good advice to children and giving them gifts is the predominant figure in the streets and in stores in time for Christmas. His country of birth would have been to Lapland in Finland, place of heavy snow, elves, dwarves and gnomes, and where people move in reindeer sledding.
Nearly a century ago, did the party start to become a way of heating the consumer market at a time when there were not many sales, due to holiday season, in the northern hemisphere, or the holiday in the southern hemisphere. It is worth it to remember that in south hemisphere is Summer time, but our Santa Claus wears those heavy dresses and boots and everything, as if he was in Winter time.
Nearly a century ago, did the party start to become a way of heating the consumer market at a time when there were not many sales, due to holiday season, in the northern hemisphere, or the holiday in the southern hemisphere. It is worth it to remember that in south hemisphere is Summer time, but our Santa Claus wears those heavy dresses and boots and everything, as if he was in Winter time.
Thus, the celebration of Christmas is becoming increasingly important as a marketing tool by encouraging consumption, once this is the most profitable holiday for shops in predominantly Christian countries, although trading in this period also reaches other countries.
What we need mostly today is the ability to rescue the creative imagination, the innocence of children stolen by the media; start seeing with our heart’s eyes in order to design a better world. Had we rescued those values, there would not be such violence, neither abandoned children nor the suffering of Mother Earth being completely devastated.
What we need mostly today is the ability to rescue the creative imagination, the innocence of children stolen by the media; start seeing with our heart’s eyes in order to design a better world. Had we rescued those values, there would not be such violence, neither abandoned children nor the suffering of Mother Earth being completely devastated.
The same happens with cell phone, it has been created to people get together, to short distances, to offer more mobility to the users, but children are using it as a toy and the companies are promoting more and more games and technological resources to keep it up. Long ago, the girls were like mothers to their dolls, giving them baths, changing clothes, feeding them. Today after Barbie, Susie and many others the dolls are projections, they are models and pattern of beauty… These behaviors show the consumerist practice of our society.
ReplyDeleteThanks Scott, for your comment.
ReplyDeleteMany times the child ceases to be the target audience and become to be the "sale promoter of goods inside the house.” Buy it Dad! Purchase it mother! Please! Buy it! It is not difficult to realize that in most cases, the child stirs up the desire of the thing itself, not the desire of playing; children gain many expensive toys, repeatedly requested, and then become uninterested soon.
What we need mostly today is the ability to rescue the creative imagination, the innocence of children stolen by the media; start seeing with our heart’s eyes in order to design a better world. Had we rescued those values, there would not be such violence, neither abandoned children nor the suffering of Mother Earth being completely devastated
ReplyDeletegreat rosane...
I have no words.. You have written one of the best post of your blog..
Congrats
Thanks Ajay, it must have been the Christmas spirit... :-)
ReplyDeleteIt is important that children at home know that Christmas is not just to receive gifts. We can celebrate together in a non-consumerist way, filling us with the real aim of this festival: the hope and love.
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