Describe a thing that has become a fashion or a matter of status nowadays.
You should say:
- what it is
- why people want or use it
- whether you have it
and explain what influences it has on people nowadays.
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An American philosopher and psychologist named William James once wrote in his book called “The Principles of Psychology” that ”a man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his”, I just couldn’t agree with him anymore. And, probably that’s why we see that people around us today are desperately trying to possess things, whether they need them or not, only because those possessions would supposedly enhance their “status”. Today, I would like to talk about one such thing that people like to have in their homes.
The name of this thing is called a “big screen TV”. Some people like to call it a super big TV. But, please don’t think that I also own one such big-screen TV. In fact, I am very much against such materialistic nonsense. Of course, many other people don’t exactly like to think like me, probably because they are more worried about their status than me. It could be also because they probably earn more money than me!
Anyway, earning more money or not, many people, at least in my society, like to have super big TV, also, because it offers them an opportunity to enjoy many entertaining shows, like movies, sports, TV reality shows, travel shows and many other programmes, in a more relaxing and better manner because these super big TV’s have better picture quality and sound system. After all, if you have a big screen TV, all the family members of a home would be able to see the TV from all corners of a room. Besides, some people like to have big screen TV’s just to decorate their living rooms or sitting areas also.
Anyway, whatever are the reasons, for which, people want to have these big TV, they influence them to create some kind of artificial class separation among themselves, which creates some unwarranted jealousy or hatred in society. Besides, this costly fashion of spending fortune in buying big screen TV put unnecessary strain on the budgets and resources of families, which could be used to take care of other important things.
