Sentences with phrase «western consumerism»

Our Western consumerism is so ingrained that we often justify it through greenwashing, now widely available in many different forms.

-- the argument that Western consumerism is the driving force behind the global economy.

Now pursing his BFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, Al - Badry examines Western consumerism's influence on traditional Muslim Culture in his newest series, Al Kouture, and reveals the tension between Occidental and Arab - Islamic ideologies.

As for the rest of the world (obviously Asia leads the way), there's a burgeoning middle class population out there that already numbers in the hundreds of millions & you know they're just dying to leap - frog their way headlong into Western consumerism.

And now in «The Day After Tomorrow», there is yet more disaster and destruction on a truly massive scale all over America (and incidentally the rest of the world), only this time the enemy is global warming, the starring boffin is unable to do anything to defeat it, and the blame is placed squarely on the shoulders of Western consumerism and blinkered US governance.

Not exact matches

At the same time, they are hesitant to adopt Western values to the extent that individualism becomes the most important cultural ideal, and consumerism becomes the defining modus operandi for all walks of life.

These three features of Western culture — consumerism, individualism, and secularism — have not been fully embraced by Russians since Western ways of thinking became more familiar to them after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The widespread promotion of the products of western capitalism, coupled with increased availability of goods and the sustained cultivation of desire through commercial media, has led to a profound influence of the philosophy of consumerism in western societies and increasingly in developing countries as well.

The collapse of central planning in the East had its own internal dynamics, but the long reach of advertised and advertising Western music, film, television, fashion - the sacraments of consumerism — played an acknowledged role in making centrally planned economies appear unbearably shoddy and barren.

Partly under the impact of constant conditioning in consumerism, people in western democratic societies increasingly are putting together their own religious belief and life - style packages in order to meet individual needs.

o) In the Western societies too there is an alienation in consumerism, in work that neglects human values, in various forms of exploitation of humans, manipulated by the means of mass communication.

So much that is wrong with contemporary Western society — radical individualism, consumerism, the glorification of choice for its own sake — represents the debased enactment of originally rich religious images and philosophical ideas.

We're told they represent something about mass consumerism and the zombification of western culture, but for practical purposes they're an arsenal of zombie killing implements.

Masterfully and humorously critiquing the rampant consumerism of the postwar Western world, the artist is best known for a series of 1960s sculptures that commodifed his own bodily residue, such as cans of his excrement, balloons filled with his breath, and eggs featuring his fingerprints.

By recalling these recent countercultural movements the video subverts it's own aesthetic; it denounces aspects of Western capitalism and consumerism and proposes we look elsewhere for spiritual fulfilment.

Confronting issues as commanding and disturbing as consumerism or the objectification of women and more particularly the hyper - sexualization of the black female in Western culture, Mutu also tackles various other heretical topics, including fornication, mutilation, or gynecological diseases of the female organs.

Beninese conceptual artist Meschac Gaba explores themes of globalization, consumerism, and the Western museum through acts of artistic appropriation.

The messages they carry run counter to our Western perspective, rejecting transcendental values, capitalism, consumerism, and even individualism.

At a western - style shrine to consumerism, «Solana Lifestyle Shopping Park,» two stars of the hugely popular Happy Camp television show took a stage in front of cheering throngs to celebrate the completion of a monthlong «I'm Finished with Fins» campaign on Sina Weibo (China's answer to Twitter) and other social media platforms.

«These Western lifestyles of consumerism are spreading all around the world through products and services, media and trade policies.