Buying Lifestyle
Every community has the social strata. Stratum or class reference is different. Some are based on the hereditary king or blue blood. Those who are born with blue blood will be positioned at the high social strata. In the Java community there are families that preserve these strata by stating the title of Prince or a higher again, indicating that he was descendant palace.
In the strata of Hindu society is based on the ideology and beliefs about caste, Brahmins for example, maintained for generations. Not to forget also in boarding schools, children clerics often called Gus, showed that he was a descendant of blue blood, who must be loved and respected by the students and the community.
With the advancement of education, social strata belandaskan primordial reference, namely excellence only by birth and descent, began shifted by academic excellence, scholarly achievement which is then perpetuated by scholarly titles. Where once people are proud of the abbreviated title of Prince Rd, then the campus is now unrivaled by title Doctor with Dr. abbreviation.
Strata in the military is very guarded and to climb to the higher strata need to struggle, as to reach the Doctor or Professor. In the bureaucracy, too, the social strata of bureaucracy is very large impact because it has the effect of power and economy. It’s just not attached to the permanent validity, legality legitimate extent.
The stories above are just want to emphasize one thing that every community has always given birth Pyramidal format, with references and rationality that diverse. People may fight the ideology of a classless society, all are equal before the law and God, but the strata and there was always a social hierarchy.
Social Strata and Lifestyle
In a small talk is a mother of middle class in the category of economic storytelling, today many mothers yag want him rise to the upper social strata, or at least to be seen as part of the upper strata of the community. Then what do they do? According to him, they buy a “ladder up” which can be used as a foothold to the top of branded goods at a great price. By using world-class accessories, and someone felt it was a part of the upper strata. So what to wear since the bags, clothes, shoes, watches, cars and other accessories are always expensive and classy.
Unfortunately, money is not always obtained by lawful means, but taken from the right of others to the path of corruption. When a person is already felt in the upper strata of the court who require expensive, its position is like someone who goes to a big mall. To get there struggle to get there just be patient cope with the traffic. But once someone has entered a large mall that offers a very diverse merchandise at a price of tens and hundreds of millions, all of a sudden someone to be poor.
Whatever a person’s wealth will always feel less to buy goods which is not actually entered the category of basic needs, but rather just buy a lifestyle. Those who stuck to this domain are not aware that the use of expensive items like him to be joined up and his personal qualities. Yet precious accessories, not his personal self. Such people must be reminded and to be pitied. They exposed the crisis of confidence and personality.
Just observe what is happening in our society as preached by the mass media. Corruption scandals and cases of dysfunctional families are all rooted when someone stuck to buying lifestyle so that he viewed as part of the upper social strata. In fact, since the tradition in the village, schools and colleges, a person’s self esteem because of his knowledge, personality and contribution to society are many, not the lifestyle that makes matter and rank as a sweetener masks themselves and their social status booster.
Apparently someone in terms of increased jobs and wealth is not always accompanied by the adult in meaning, live and live the life to be more authentic.
