America, and American business, was viewed as arrogant and indifferent toward others' cultures; exploitative, in that it extracted more than it provided; corrupting, in how it valued materialism above all else; and willing to sacrifice almost anything in an effort to generate profits.
Those responsible for its demise are none other than the schools, which have failed to educate students about its principles; the courts, which have failed to uphold the rights enshrined within it; the politicians, who long ago sold out to corporations and special interests; and "we the people" who, in our ignorance and greed, have valued materialism over freedom.
It is the opportunity for humans to rediscover the higher values than materialism and indulgence".
What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Pirahã." I wonder whether Everett feels grateful for his life with the Pirahã or scarred by it.
Other articles appearing in the state-run media in the first days and weeks of the ban posited that Falun Gong must be defeated because its "theistic" philosophy was at odds with the Marxist Leninism paradigm and with the secular values of materialism.
The most revolutionary idea of the 20th century was to create a throwaway culture whose key features were the practice of consumerism and the value system of materialism.
Popular culture, also not surprisingly, has an impact on whether children come to value wealth and materialism?
Protestant values shifted from virtuous Christian living to values based on materialism and competitive, capitalist behavior.
Terzani, fluent in five languages including Mandarin Chinese, was well equipped to observe the dilution of Oriental values by the materialism of the west.
On this reservation, it will symbolize an all-American vision of success in a tribal culture that values modesty over materialism and humility over Hummers.
Even Muslims who reject fundamentalism, however, have expressed doubts about the desirability of following the Western style of science, saying that it subverts traditional spiritual values and promotes materialism and alienation.
