Letter for a person who uses bear bile as medicine

Homework for Tuesday, November 2nd

How does advertising influence consumption?

The companies that speed out their advertisement absolutely know what people needs are (Maybe just about their product) and they also know that people just want to serve their needs, they often buy things without thinking. The first and only one important reason that they produced the products is their incomes by selling products. Also there are a lot of competitions between many companies that are producing the same products. I think those are the three basic reasons make they paid a lots money in their advertisement to try to say the goods about their things to people, to try to show that their things could serve people's needs to make people buy them. When people see those advertisements, not only the consumers want to buy them, but also the supermarket, the market or the shop want to buy them to sell because that bring the profits to them when people buy the products in the supermarket, ect.

Do you think citizens are sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits? If not, how can we become more informed about sustainability issues?

I think that's not really don't, some people often think about things that they bought and going to buy but almost don't. Like what we already knew, advertisements always tell us the goods of the products. They didn't tell us about the harms, the damages come from those products. As we know people's habits are buy the things that went through the advertisements are in everywhere, some products that they didn't see by advertising, they didn't buy them because they think those products are not good. Almost things that people already knew and bought come from advertisement. Advertisements, that's right, that's why people rarely know all the information of the products and they just want to serve their needs, they don't care about the harms the products will bring to the environment so they don't need to get all the information include the bad. If we want to informed more, first is the advertisement need to show the opposite, the bad impacting to the environment and people. Or we want to buy something we can get to the internet to search for more information about them. Or the simple way is think about them. 

Do you think these advertising techniques influence what you and your friends purchase?

Advertisements always beat our weaknesses of looking or materials. Because we are girls so the advertisements about perfume, jewel, clothes are always interesting us. Like others people, I rarely things about the opposite sides of these things, I just know I shouldn't look at myself in the mirror with these things to much and forget studying. But I don't think advertise and buy these products cause many things because we don't usually waste our jewels and clothes.