首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
With increasing prosperity, West European youth is having a fling that is creating distinctive consumer and cultural patterns.
With increasing prosperity, West European youth is having a fling that is creating distinctive consumer and cultural patterns.
admin
2013-01-15
70
问题
With increasing prosperity, West European youth is having a fling that is creating distinctive consumer and cultural patterns.
The result has been the increasing emergence in Europe of that phenomenon well known in America as the "youth market." This is a market in which enterprising businesses cater to the demands of teenagers and older youths in all their beatlemania and pop-art forms.
In the United States, the market is wide-ranging and well established, almost an industry, which with this country’s emphasis on "youthfulness," even extends beyond teenager groups.
As in the United States, youthful tastes in Europe extend over a similar range of products-records and record players, leather jackets and "wayout," extravagantly styled clothing, cosmetics and soft drinks. Generally it now is difficult to tell in which direction trans-Atlantic teenage influences are flowing.
Also, a pattern of conformity dominates European youth as in this country, though in Britain the object is to wear clothes that "make the wearer stand out," but also make him "in," such as tight trousers and precisely tailored jackets.
Worship and emulation of "idols" in the entertainment field, especially the "pop" singers and other performers, can be viewed as another similarity. There is also the same exuberance and unpredictability in sudden fad switches. In Paris, buyers of stores catering to the youth market carefully watch what dress is being worn by a popular television teenager singer to be ready for a sudden demand for copies. In Stockholm other followers of teenage fads call the youth market "attractive bat irrational."
Actually, the scope and nature of the youth market varies considerably from country to country, being large and lively in some and only beginning to show itself in others.
But there are also these important dissimilarities generally with the American youth-market:
In the European youth-market, unlike that of the United States, it is the working youth who provides the bulk of purchasing power.
On the average, the school-finishing age still tends to be 14 years. This is the maximum age to which compulsory education extend, and with Europe’s industrial manpower shortage, thousands of teenage youths may soon attain incomes equal in many cases to that of their fathers.
Although, because of general prosperity, European youths are beginning to continue school studies beyond the compulsory maximum age, they do not receive anything like the pocket-money or "allowances" of American teenagers.
Working youth, consequently, are the big spenders in the European youth market, but they also have less leisure than those staying on at school, but these in turn have less buying power.
Which of the following statements about the consumer habits of youth is NOT true?
选项
A、English youths prefer close-fitting garments.
B、European teenagers mimic their American peers and vice versa.
C、Flavored carbonated beverages are popular among teenagers.
D、Teenagers today are too sophisticated for hero-worship.
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/1Q2O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Manystudentsfind______jobsduringtheirsummerholidays.
Thereseemsnevertohavebeenacivilizationwithouttoys,butwhenandhowtheydevelopedisunknown.Theyprobablycameabout
AIDSiscausinggreatpublicconcernbecausethe______fataldiseasehitsprimarilyyoungpeople.
The______ofaculturalphenomenonisusuallyalogicalconsequenceofsomephysicalaspectinthelifestyleofthepeople.
OnApril20,2000,inAccra,Ghana,theleadersofsixWestAfricancountriesdeclaredtheirintentiontoproceedtomonetaryuni
OnApril20,2000,inAccra,Ghana,theleadersofsixWestAfricancountriesdeclaredtheirintentiontoproceedtomonetaryuni
Duringthefaminemanypeople______eatinggrassandleaves.
Thegovernmentdecidedtotakea______actiontostrengthenthemarketmanagement.
Hemovedawayfromhisparents,andmissedthem______enjoytheexcitinglifeinNewYork.
Sheboughtaknifefromtheshop______topeelanapple.
随机试题
下列关于一级反应说法正确是()。
推动历史发展的绝大多数社会成员的总和是()
A.抑制肠道产尿素酶的细菌B.被细菌分解为乳酸和醋酸,降低肠道内pH值C.与游离氨结合使氨失去毒性D.增加尿素合成而降低血氨E.纠正氨基酸代谢不平衡,抑制神经递质的形成支链氨基酸治疗肝性脑病的主要机制是
属于零售药店不得销售的药品是
某法院以诈骗罪判处周某有期徒刑4年并处罚金5万元。周某以无钱为由,拒绝缴纳罚金。刑满释放后第一年,周某准备结婚,购买一辆微型轿车。法院得知上述情况后派法警强行将小轿车扣押。请问如何看待法院的行为?()
以下有关索赔的说法中,正确的是( )。
根据公司法律制度的规定,下列关于有限责任公司经理的表述中,正确的是()。
某市经济委员会准备选四家企业给予表彰,并给予一些优惠政策。从企业的经济效益来看,A、B两个企业比C、D两个企业好。据此,再加上以下哪项可推出“E企业比D企业的经济效益好”的结论?
软件危机是指______。
下列各项中,不是存储器容量度量单位的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)