Introduction to Sociology/Q&A(10/16)/Shin min kyung

Has Valentine's day commodified love?

 

Valentine's Day is criticized by many people for a long time. Because that day has commodified the special feelings of people to chocolate. Love and friendship can not be conveyed by materials and can not be compelled by society. Valentine's Day gives people a sense of relative deprivation that they can't love or be received. People are obsessed with feeling that obligation to give and loneliness that I do not deserve to be loved. Finally, Valentine's Day is a day when a person's feelings are thoroughly commercialized by corporation. It is obviously wrong that the meaning of that day turns into social restraints.