Shopping is the only truly universal experience. Go to a mall here or there, any corner of the world... They're all the same: people strolling by, browsing stores, boutique attendants usually young and pretty (or blonde) and most of the people pretending to be fashionable, if not pretentious. Be it China or Mexico, or Canada, malls have the same atmosphere
2006-09-03 05:42:59 · 10 answers · asked by zap 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Well, when you go to a mall it looks like a mall and has in it people who work at and who go to malls.
It isn't a universal experience of humanity, it's a universal experience of malls. People who can't afford to go to malls are absent, as are people who don't like malls.
As others have pointed out, truly universal experiences are more things like eating, peeing, sleeping, laughing, speaking, ....
Malls the world over have the same atmosphere because they are all malls. The same cannot be said for homes or places where you buy food or places where people learn, or, or, or, or [all of the other kinds of places there are].
2006-09-03 10:39:03 · answer #1 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about shopping, I'm not much of a shopper. But i think the true universal experience is Love. It is the language that transcends all time, languages, countries,and worlds.
2006-09-03 12:54:45 · answer #2 · answered by free2bme 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's because people and their perceptions of the world regardless of where they are, are based on material objects. I watched a program on the Travel Channel where a 15 yer old girl was married to a man who she was promised to before she was born. It was a 3rd world country....a small village of thatched huts where the people wore barely anything. Her concern was that her new husband would provide her with nice clothes.
2006-09-03 12:47:40 · answer #3 · answered by misscatitude2002 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How about urinating, that is even more universal.
Or how about people that don't know the difference between a question and a statement, that is pretty universal too.
2006-09-03 12:46:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, your tribal cultures don't have malls or shop, really. I would think eating, sex, dreaming - these are all truly universal experiences.
Peace!
2006-09-03 12:45:25 · answer #5 · answered by carole 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
that is very true, it just proves that all people not matter of race, religion, or whatever, we all have something in common. of course there are a lot of other things too, but that is one more thing to add to the list
2006-09-03 12:47:06 · answer #6 · answered by Shorty 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i wouldnt say universal but you must be a business student or something, i use to make the same observation when i was in 7th grade
2006-09-03 12:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by darkangel1111 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you go shopping in the middle east theres a chance some islamic fanatic will blow you to smithereens. that's always fun
2006-09-03 12:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by chetahbill 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I smell a new religion.
2006-09-03 12:43:58 · answer #9 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
alrighty then!!!
2006-09-03 13:04:17 · answer #10 · answered by skybabe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋