Our Children, T.V., and Entertainment

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When discussing how American culture "corrupts" our children, the first words that come to mind are usually four-letter words or words pertaining to highly sexualized scenarios. This paper argues, however, that the culture of American capitalist cultural consumption is, if anything, more universal and equally damaging to American children. It has created a legacy of prominent consumption of unnecessary consumer products over the course of the past, present. and future of American television and culture. The paper argues further that American consumer culture is likely to continue to affect the minds of our children, creating a generation of people who believe they are what they buy, rather than who they really are as a person.

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"Furthermore, as the nation grows increasingly in debt from consuming a large array of cultural products deemed necessary by advertisers, and obese from the amount of food sold through supposedly entertaining venues, the problem of how to address this crisis remains. Artistic integrity of television, movies, and other venues must be maintained of course. But advertising and the first amendment are hardly synonymous with cultural quality. As early as the 1980's, when ET consumed Reece's Pieces, as a result of a marketing deal, and causing the peanut butter flavored shells to skyrocket in popularity, movies as well as television have formed an alliance with advertisers."

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