Me: What do you thinking about your constant desire of owning expensive items?!
Karina: I don't know, love expensive stuff...
Mel: I don't always buy expensive stuff, but I love shopping so I can buy cheap stuff as long as they look nice I'm satisfied haahaha
Me: You obviously didn't wake up one day and decided that you'd rather a buy a Christian Dior hand bag than an RR bag from the market... lol I mean what really drives to buy those expensive stuff?
Karina: yeah I actually did have a dream where a wise man told me:'Thou shall never buy cheap stuff'... loool nah I'm joking! I mean it's like you grow up watching older women, your mum and dad, people in community, see how other people look at them with admiration and how they carry themselve, what they own... so you obviously you wanna be like them when you're older and, so yeah here I am keeping the tradition go on...lol!
Mel: I'd say that more about the environment you grow up in, the people you're surrounded, family, going to congolese gatherings etc. you just pick up small things and before you know it, you find yourself buy Dior bag and not an RR from the market but as for me I don't really mind lol!!!!
My Oxford dictionary defines Consumerism as The preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods
by talking to my 2 congolese friends I came to the conclusion that we can devide congolese people into categories: the ones that love luxury and consider that lifestyle as a tradition and the ones that only are easily satified with what they have but wouldn't mind having more!
Those like me who love luxury really fascinate me...!!
I mean what motivates us, what keeps the fire of buying brand items burning in us?
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