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<span>One answer might be that culture, an exclusive, frivolous, leisure pursuit of the rich, their flunkies, and social climbers, requires elaborate security to defend its providers and consumers from the righteous anger of the people, whose hard-earned taxes, or lottery losses, are squandered on subsidising fripperies such as opera, ballet, theatre, concerts, and art shows with dead cows in aspic, to which la-di-dah people wear fancy clothes. Another, from the opposite side of the social divide, might say that cultural performances and artefacts embody the best in the spirit of the nation, thus belong to all the people, irrespective of who owns or attends them, and are a source of pride and prestige for all, which must be defended against attack by foreigners, terrorists, hooligans, and madmen. The former is the view of philistines, the latter that of culture vultures.</span>
Answer:
d. Downward mobility
Explanation:
Downward mobility is to move to a lower social level because people have a decrease in income or wealth and lose status or job. So, in the recession when people lost their jobs and their houses and quit spending money, they experienced downward mobility.
The cotton gin was an important invention because b) it inadvertently led to the spread of slavery. This was because the demand for cotton grew even more, due to the cotton gin being produced in masses. The cotton gin is "a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation."
I believe southern colonies, but i COULD be incorrect <span />
