The Senegalese society is marked both by the traditional values of solidarity, noncompetitiveness, and sharing characteristic of their past and Islamic emphasis on moral and spiritual values to the detriment of material possession. In such a context, Senegalese adolescents (200 boys, 200 girls) requested to comment on the value of money showed a typically ambivalent attitude: the need for social promotion requires money, and their religiosity makes its value secondary.
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