Obviously not every person will succumb to these images or be persuaded to "buy" into their messages, but I believe that a vast majority will not be able to separate between what the media hands us on a silver platter and individual ideas and thoughts. Those living in today's society are choosing to buy into myths that the advertising community sets forth because it's so much easier to not have to think for yourself. It seems that Americans are complacent to the media and the messages that they bombard us with on a daily basis.

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ms to be beautiful and acceptable and the consequences this has taken upon young women is one of the best examples to look at in my opinion. The media puts forth these images of women who are abnormally thin and then proceeds to tell Americans that this image is the standard of beauty. Young women and men see these images and digest them, not separating what is real and what may be an altered, unhealthy, unsafe lifestyle. You really can't blame them for internalizing these images in such a way, if you see something repeated in a thousand magazines, on every show, in every movie, then someone might rationally think that this is okay.

For many teens and young adults clothing is the one way that they fit in to their peer crowd. Magazines and commercials are informing young adults that clothing lines such as Tommy and Abercrombie and Fitch are what they need to be wearing in order to fit in with the others. Susceptible and naive high schoolers may not recognize the price for the A&F jeans tha

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