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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1561907, member: 41665&quot;]Walking into a store and <i>buying something of lasting value</i> (but only symbolic utility) makes perfect sense to me. </p><p>In Boston, people &#039;CAMP OUT&#039; OVERNIGHT ON THE SIDEWALK (IN THE WINTERTIME!) - to spend a fortune on Vietnamese-made sneakers. Perhaps it&#039;s spec, and they net value somehow - I&#039;m not so sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indian men I&#039;ve spokmen to (Hindu, Catholic, Muslim) have confirmed that Gold-buying is a <i>gendered affair </i>that cuts across language, religion, ethnicity: they call it &#039;investment&#039; but from context they clearly mean SAVINGS. This is how Indian women store wealth. The men don&#039;t seem to care about Gold at all: they just want to talk stocks.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;m not sure about: how Gold constitutes a &#039;status symbol&#039; if people cannot see it (if stored/hidden: The Golden Womb.) Presumably, the that&#039;s what holidays are for ; ) </p><p><br /></p><p>Hard to fathom what all this means - except that American bullionists are <i>nowhere close </i>to true &#039;Gold Bugs.&#039; Whoa.</p><p><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/181644/20110717/gold-kerala-india-mythology-vaults-anthropolgy-gold-value-gold-culture.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/181644/20110717/gold-kerala-india-mythology-vaults-anthropolgy-gold-value-gold-culture.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/181644/20110717/gold-kerala-india-mythology-vaults-anthropolgy-gold-value-gold-culture.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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