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"Something new has come to confront American democracy… This is our proudest boast: 'The American citizen has more comforts and conveniences than kings had two hundred years ago.' It is a fact and this fact is the outward evidence of the new force which has crossed the path of American democracy. The increasing stream of automobiles and radios,buildings and bathrooms,furs and furniture,liners,hotels,bridges,vacuum cleaners…these are the signs… Consumptionism is bringing it about that the American citizen's first importance to his country is no longer that of citizen but that of consumer."
Samuel Strauss,"Things Are in the Saddle," Atlantic Monthly,1924
-The scenario described in the passage is most similar to cultural developments of

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The passage describes the increasing emphasis on consumption and material goods in American society, which is most similar to the consumer culture that emerged in the decade after World War II with the rise of suburbanization and mass consumerism. The other options do not fit as well with the specific examples given in the passage.

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