User talk:Currieus/Editnotice

Dear Editor, I have received notice that the article "Urban Consumerism in the United States" has been declined as a separate article and would be more appropriate for inclusion in a general article on Consumerism.

I would strongly disagree with this suggestion and hope that you will reconsider for the following reasons:

1. The "Consumerism" article is a broad treatise on the history of U.S. consumption. It is not about the particular experiences of individual groups of consumers. A good analogy would be a classroom discussion of War versus an individual's battlefield experiences. Same subject but from two very different perspectives. Each meriting its own discussion platform.

2. "Urban Consumerism" is new terminology that captures both the checkered history of these groups in their communities as non-owners of community businesses; biases and prejudices from institutions such as banks and insurance companies; and a lowered quality of life that substandard consumerism fostered. As a result, these groups have totally different perceptions as consumers, different media and shopping behaviors, and different consumption measurement rewards.

3. The impetus for writing the "Urban Consumerism" article was to acknowledge that these groups have not experienced the kind of "idealized path of consumerism" as the general Consumerism article details, but one that mirrors their arduous legacy as second-class consumers in this country.

To merely add Urban Consumerism to a general discussion of American consumerism negates and diminishes the very different experiences that minority groups had and have in the consumer marketplace.

I appreciate your reconsidering Urban Consumerism as a separate article.

Thank you, Currieus