The month of love and friendship has arrived and while some start looking for the ideal place for your partner or your friends, others repudiate high degree of marketing and consumerism that causes that date.
Whatever our position, it is interesting to see how people behave at special occasions like Valentine's Day. Therefore, we present 11 points that we extracted from various sources related to the celebration of the Day of Love and Friendship.
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It is estimated that in the United States 14 billion dollars are spent every year to celebrate Valentine's Day.
53 percent of American women leave their boyfriends if they do not give away anything this day.
38 percent of American men have thought of ending a relationship to not deal with the problem of choosing the "perfect" gift for their partners.
In 2011, 83.6 percent of Latin Americans had plans to celebrate the Day of Love and Friendship.
Venezuela is the country where it is celebrated this day with 89.7 percent of its inhabitants. Peru followed with 87.9 percent and Chile with 86.5 percent.
Mexico is the fourth country that celebrates the Day of Love and Friendship, with 84.4 percent.
12.4 percent of Latin Americans celebrate Valentine just because your partner likes.
93.4 percent of people think of buying a gift to their partner.
48.9 percent of people who give a thought to buy a gift online.
What more is given away on this day is a romantic meal (20.7 percent), followed by electronics (13.2 percent), fashion goods (9.3 percent), flowers (9.3 percent) and teddy bears (8.1 percent).
Gifts that people would least like to receive are books (14.3 percent) and teddy bears (11.6 percent) -despite they rank fifth item.
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