More Than a Brand
Oral Communication Practice
Watch the video and respond to the questions below.
1. What helps you choose one brand over another?
Watch the video and think about it!
2. Is shopping important to the people in your country?
RESPONSES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Nava Rose, 33, LA-based Filipino influencer
“I do have to take responsibility for my actions [in encouraging overconsumption]. The fact that some people actually consider shopping fast fashion to be a hobby is honestly quite disgusting. Find a new hobby please. Birdwatching is such a nice wholesome hobby.”
Ann Patchett, 60, American author and co-owner of Parnassus books
“My first few months of no shopping were full of gleeful discoveries. I ran out of lip balm early on and before making a decision about whether lip balm constituted a need, I looked in my desk drawers and coat pockets. I found five lip balms. The trick of no shopping isn’t just that you don’t buy things. You don’t shop. [As an old friend said,] ‘There were people to help, things to do. Not shopping frees up a lot of space in your brain.”
Niko Stoifberg, 47, Swiss author
“When I couldn’t fight the urge anymore to finally spend some of that money, I spent it on services instead of goods. Instead of purchasing whatever happened to be ‘in,’ I started to go out more often. Services foster social interaction [and] make us happier than goods [do].”
