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The complexity of the so-called individual that__ been praised for decades in America somehow has narrowed itself to the __e_. When I was a young girl we were called citizens _ American citizens. We were second-class citizens, but that was the word. In the 50s and 60s they started calling us consumers. So we did _ consume. Now they don__ use those words any more _ it__ the American taxpayer and those are different attitudes.
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The complexity of the so-called individual that__ been praised for decades in America somehow has narrowed itself to the __e_. When I was a young girl we were called citizens _ American citizens. We were second-class citizens, but that was the word. In the 50s and 60s they started calling us consumers. So we did _ consume. Now they don__ use those words any more _ it__ the American taxpayer and those are different attitudes.

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