The marketing system has been accused of adding to several "evils" in society at large. Advertising has been a special target of many of these accusations. People claim that advertising creates false wants and cultural pollution. False Wants and Too Much Materialism Critics have charged that the marketing system urges too much interest in material possessions, and that North Americans' love affair with worldly possessions is not sustainable. Too often, people are judged by what they own rather than by who they are. The critics view this "rampant consumerism" as the fault of marketing. Marketers, they claim, stimulate people's desires for goods and create false wants and materialistic models of the good life-a distorted interpretation of the "American Dream." Find a word in the text which means "understanding, perception" (n.) Your answer: affair interpretation interest Opossession Clear answer Question 2 Find a word in the text which means "stimulate, encourage" (v.) Your answer: charge urge judge O view Clear answer Find a word in the text which means "uncontrolled, widespread" (adj.) Your answer: rampant distorted false materialistic Clear answer Question 4 Find a word in the text which means "misrepresented, misinterpreted (adj.). Your answer: sustainable rampant materialistic distorted Clear answer Question 5 What does "they" refer to? Your answer: the critics O North Americans models marketers