Would be, a white family with 2 kids in a medium size home with a dog and a cat both parents are working 9-5 and kids are going to middle school...
Second common would be, A black family overweight dad construction and mom a clinic nurse with 6 kids and a bulldog...
Third would be, Mexican family with 10 kids and over 100 relatives in a large white van, the dad is working on the field and the mom is a stay at home mom looking over the small kids teaching them Spanish and english. (also for fun they go to the water park with the entire family)
In its purest form, classicism is an aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, with the emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, clarity of structure, perfection, restrained emotion, as well as explicit appeal to the intellect.
I would say all of the above. Political because there may be tension between individuals, economic because it may have been that one part of the gov't didn't want to take on the other parts debts, and geographical like in the case of Greece where civilizations literally had an ocean between them.
No, it is false that the Counter Reformation and Council of Trent squashed all hopes that the Protestants and Catholics would reconcile, since in the modern world the two groups operate side by side with little difficulty.