Community College Students Create A Self-Image In Their Life
             Swimming with the current is much easier than swimming against the current. If people are not able to follow the trend, they will not belong to this time anymore. "Most of the time each of us is a member of a group, sometimes a member of several groups, and at different times of different groups" (Katona 55). Moreover, their feeling, thinking, and acting will be profoundly influenced when they are in a powerful group. Because the people surrounding them are chasing the fluctuating trend, they are forced to improve their standards of life in order to fit in with this complicated society.
             Community college students like shopping because this is a way to alleviate depression and follow the trend. Due to their need for self-gratification, they will buy whatever they want to satisfy their goal to become a person with an individual image. Furthermore, community college students like to be innovators, so they can communicate with others with similar interests. Not only can they communicate with their peers, but they can also develop self-confidence in the buying process.
             Community college students create their lives to match a "self-image" produced by the media. They believe they will become more popular with their peers if they own something that their peers desire to possess. For instance, while community college students are driving a luxury car, using a high-technology laptop, or paying for purchases with a high-limited credit card, they will have an opportunity to encounter friends or attract other people's attention. It is the reason drawing all of the community college students down into the swirling whirlpool of making a self-image.
             Today's community college students are materialists. In philosophy, materialism means "a widely held system of thought that explains the nature of the world as entirely dependent on matter,...