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0 pointsJJMcJ1y ago0 comments

> (upper) middle class people

It reflects a great change in Western society, which really began to flourish first in the Netherlands, where the merchant and industrial classes began to be dominant, and were growing sick of pretending it wasn't true.

Mostly in Britain these days, we see the final pretenses of the nobility on display.

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ghaff1y ago

Holland is really where the wealthy merchant class first became dominant in Europe--and was generally not subservient to the nobility as in other other countries.

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0 pointsJJMcJ1y ago0 comments

> (upper) middle class people

Mostly in Britain these days, we see the final pretenses of the nobility on display.

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ghaff1y ago

Holland is really where the wealthy merchant class first became dominant in Europe--and was generally not subservient to the nobility as in other other countries.

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