Marketing Culture

How has the culture of marketing come to shape the way American’s understand the world and themselves?

Marketing today has drastically changed from previous decades, especially since there are more marketing avenues.  Companies spend billions of dollars annually on marketing and advertising their product to the public because the majority of people base their purchases on the ads they see on television, billboards, or on magazine pages.  Physical appearance, fashion, and material objects have changed the way Americans view themselves and the marketing culture has shaped the way people spend to achieve a certain status, especially teens and young adults. Marketing has also given different countries of the world a chance to understand different cultures beyond their own.