Now that that better world has arrived it can be argued that life for the Chinese youth might have more opportunity but has in turn become more complicated with difficult career decisions, an increasingly materialistic society, and a complex relationship with the West.
The materialistic paradigm fosters an "I-It" relationship to nature rather than an "I-Thou" relationship, to appropriate the theology of Martin Buber.
Materialistic values have even been linked with lower relationship satisfaction.
He would not have agreed to the relationship if he simply cared about materialistic things; otherwise, you shouldn't be with him.
In both those outings, Lord and Miller were able to transcend materialistic imperatives by making larger statements about the complex relationship between art and commerce.
The perversely lopsided sway of power is evident in the relationships of teacher and student, rich fiancé and materialistic bride-to-be, dying widow and only child.
In this worldview, Americans are becoming more likely to trust our neighbors, less prejudiced, more tolerant of people different than us, less materialistic and more apt to desire a good life based on satisfying relationships.
For Anastasia, who isn't particularly materialistic, having a lavish lifestyle with expensive gifts was not a driving force in her relationship with Christian.
For instance, nations rated as having stronger masculine sex roles are more likely to have more gender-specific roles in family and work, to be more materialistic, more ego-driven and to focus more on individual achievement than on life quality and interpersonal relationships (Lafferty 2006; see also Poulin and Levri in press).
Whitman, Edmund Beecher Wilson, and others at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, dedicated considerable energy to discovering the nature of each cell and its internal organization and relationships, in an attempt to discover the relative contributions of preformation and epigenetic development to a materialistic explanation of development.
