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What changes would be necessary to make western society noticeably less mannerly, coarser, and cruder than it is today? And would such changes start in Europe, often the source of social trends, or would they begin in the New World (in which I'll include Australia and New Zealand given the relatively recent settlement of those lands by westerners)? What social nicety would you suggest would be the first to be discarded?
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