“One may build a compelling case that American culture is beyond redemption, money mad, hedonistic, superficial, and rushing heedlessly down a railroad track called Progress. Tocqueville and other observers of the young republic described America in these terms in the early 1800's, decades before the development of national advertising. To blame advertising now for these most basic tendencies in American history is to miss the point....The people who have created modern advertising are not hidden persuaders pushing our buttons in the service of some malevolent purpose. They are just producing an especially visible manifestation good and bad , of the American Way of life.”
Stephen Fox

Advertising has been called a “cultural threat”, in the way that ads pushes us to want material things and away from social relationship/norms. Culture is defined as the totality of learned, socially, transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behavior.......

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Title: Advertisement Focused At Teens
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