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    I do 99% of my Christmas shopping in July so black Friday is not about Christmas - it is just about deals for me...but no I don't go out on black Friday - tried it once during my younger days - I was so aggravated by the first store - I just went home...people actually hurting other people to save $5.00...no deal is worth the lines and hatefulness...humanity goes out the window when there is a "deal"

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    The OP does not reference Christmas shopping one way or the other...
    But, millions in this nation do... all everyone talks about is Christmas shopping starting with black friday, so it is understood what black friday is about.

    Well, to most people in the US anyway. I understand some some folks act like they don't know what's going on either way.

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    'The Great American Pastime' is shopping, says history professor in new book

    Thirty years ago, the United States had 11,000 shopping malls. Today, that number has more than quadrupled, to 45,000. From the Mall of America to the strip mall nearest you, these American cultural phenomena occupy some 5.5 billion square feet of space and generate more than a trillion dollars in annual sales.

    St. Olaf College Professor Jim Farrell finds those facts fascinating -- so much so that he has published a book, One Nation Under Goods: Malls and the Seductions of American Shopping (Smithsonian Books), that both celebrates and critiques the culture of shopping malls.
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    Though an academician himself, Farrell says the book is not aimed at academics. "It's for the everyday reader," he explains. Even so, he can't resist philosophizing in the book's introduction:
    Malls are a place where we answer important questions: What does it mean to be human? What are people for? What is the meaning of things? Why do we work? What do we work for? And what, in fact, are we shopping for? Like colleges and churches, malls provide answers to these critical questions. Like colleges, malls are places where we make statements about the good, the true and the beautiful. Like churches, they are places where we decide what is ultimately valuable and how we will value it. And malls are places where we act out, and institutionalize, our values."

    http://www.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm...etails&id=1871

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    St. Olaf College Professor Jim Farrell
    Sounds like a catholic thing...

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    I saved so much money on Black Friday (by not shopping!)

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