Love Sells

That’s the day. Streets are filled with people who are going and coming. Red is the basic color of most shops; Color of Love. Good days for sellers to fill their pockets with money..

No, i dont mean It is bad to have fun really. But like the New Year Eve, Valentine’s Day has become as commercial as the rest of corporate holidays.

As a multi-million dollar industry, It’s getting just an “opportunity” for companies to take more advantage. The advertisements steal your mind and force you to do what they expect you to do, with an overwhelming number of cards, presents and even holidays being sold the world over to celebrate it.

Nowadays if you don’t know the name of Valentine day in the mid east, others will look at you like you’re a sinful idiot. They don’t care Valentine day has lost its real meaning. It’s driven by materialism. It’s going to be an empty cube with no spirit. Usually people are confused between the matter of “Love” and “Lust”. They waste lots of money in this day for kind of feeling which gets apart after a short time.

I still can not make me fitted with this new culture. I can not understand why we don’t try to love a person for a lifetime and show our love to the beloved all the year and not just in a day.

I remember in my whole life -exactly before being globally conneced to the world via internet- i had not heard about the valentine day. It was something that just used to be practiced in the Rome, later in the France, Germany and UK. Finally it reached to the big enforcer of the culture, USA.

The American culture which is trying to feed whole the world, was tranmitted via internet to all countries. Now this new epidemy in the Middle East is getting an important part of culture for some people. It is strange for me, that why before internet, we didnt know this event. Even before Islamic Revolution in Iran that following western culture was very common, there was no such an event. What can i call it? A form of globalisation? Losing the national culture? Or enforcing the materialism of the west into Muslim world?

I know that most people in the Muslim World are going to take their culture off their mind. Most of the time, they are even more ignorant about their national culture than culture of other nations. On the other hand, americans are less aware of other cultures and traditions. They don’t know about lifestyle and different cultures in the world. At the same time, their government’s trying to enforce the materialistic culture to other countries, even the Europe.

In every country, You just need to turn on your TV and see how much channels are filled with American movies.

There is a big difference between “A good understanding of different cultures” and “being obsessed by foreigner culture”. Culture is the most important factor in a society. It can be cause of development and failure both. It can be motivator or disaster.

If there is a way to destroy a nation, that’s changing their religious and cultural identity. It makes them unable to use their brain and think. It makes them slave of other cultures which like a ready sandwich of thoughts go into their mind. Those nations are powerful whom could introduce their identity in an influential way to the world.

Today is different from the past. Nowadays, power of a nation is not based on number of population, but a nation is more powerful who has the most cultural influence on other nations.