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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Japanese troops had long been told they were racially and morally superior to the soft and materialistic Western man.†
Chpt 3. *materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
- The Marines fought for publicity and had materialistic desires, their government pamphlets assured them.†
Chpt 6.
Definitions:
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(materialistic) overly concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interests
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, in philosophy, materialistic can refer to the belief that everything, including our thoughts, are caused by physical effects over which we have no control.