High School Speech Materialism and Money

We Have become largely materialistic as a society. Nowadays the size of your income is the point that defines you and happiness is the latest Ipod. Now bonnie take a moment to consider. What was it that made you happy as a toddler? Was it that you had the latest Pumpkin patch fashions? Or perhaps it was that your proves earnt more than your best friends p arnts? No it was simply the love and attachment of your parents, a sense of achievement when you achieved some subject and the companionship of mass your own age. You see, I think those toddlers are onto a good thing.I believe that we as the teenage people of New Zealand place outlying(prenominal) to much stress on the splendor of specie. If you think about it, all that gold causes is freehanded things Debt, family relationship problems, and inter-class prejudice. Money has such a strong influence everyplace our lives, so much so that it often causes relationship problems. Many couples afford prescribe relationship pr oblems down to financial problems. Debt and lack of income place major(ip) financial stresses on people. As a result their relationships with friends and sexual partners suffer. This discount often lead to domestic violence, alcoholism and abuse.Recently a muckle was conducted by a New Zealand relationship process. This look back revealed that 41% of couples experiencing relationship problems blamed their financial places. A representative from the National relationship service declared that the groups of people most susceptible to domestic violence were young couples experiencing relationship troubles. Weve all seen the massive controversy in the media about Slumdog millionaire Actress, Rubina Alis father tries to remove her. If money were such a brilliant thing why it was the very reason for a father trying to sell his daughter?His very own flesh and blood? Breaking up a whole family. I believe that if we were to place less importance on money then many relationships would benefit greatly. Debt is a major intrusion into peoples casual lives. Debt is becoming a far more predominant issue. This is because a lot of the younger generations are un improve about the consequences of using credit and eftpos cards. They are excessively unaware of how to asseverate their accounts under control. Debt has become more of an issue in recent long time with the introduction of electronic devices. Credit cards now allow people to spend heir money in advance meanwhile they are charged large amounts of interest. Because they are unable to physically spend their money people are often fooled into spending large amounts of money. This is essentially a loan. The credit companies then charge the customer high interest range and by the time the customer applys-off this debt they study paid almost doubly the amount for an item in order to use their money in advance. The amount of debt an average New Zealander racks up is increasing. Take for example, a retrospect ca rried out by the Reserve bank of New Zealand in 2001.This survey stated that the average amount of debt as a New Zealander had change magnitude by 10% over the ten year period since 1991 This is a leading cause for depression and mental illness. I believe that if proper(a) education about money was given and the use of technology with money was reduced then money would become less of an intrusion into our everyday lives. Money encourages discrimination and prejudice. Society is quite distinctly split into variant classes. These classes are majorly influenced by, Yes you guessed it, Money.Why should someone be any less of a mortal scarcely because they have a smaller income than the next person? The universal declaration of human proper(ip)s declares that each person is entitled to indisputable things. Sadly are unable to access such things as they have a small income. Many low income families find that they are frowned upon by the Upper classes. One such person, a student, was mocked and taunted by her peers as her family had to give birth out a paper run to help sustain their family. As ashamed as I am to say it I stood back and watched while such blatant discrimination was taking place right in front of me.This is just one example of inner-class prejudice. The government also shows prejudice towards different classes by providing subsidies for health care and other services. Families chuck out for these benefits by being under a certain income. Often families with incomes just slightly above the qualification standard often struggle to pay for such services but receive no subsidy. To qualify for a community services card a family must have a combined income of less than seventy thousand dollars per annum. A family earning seventy deuce thousand dollars per annum had a child that became critically ill.Because their income was two thousand dollars higher(prenominal) than the requirement this family received no financial help from the government and as a result they are now in major debt. I believe that inter class prejudice would become less of an issue and the lifestyle of many people would improve if less emphasis were put on money. So as the young people of New Zealand we indigence to take a stand and make a difference Lets balk our consumer society form being consumed We need to realize how the influence of money affects our relationships, emotions and attitudes towards others.