"...there is reason to think that the tendency to look over one's shoulder in just this way may well have intensified in recent years, at least in the international context...
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The most plausible explanation for this puzzingl change is that while people in pre-television era mostly compared themeselves to their fellow countrymen, and felt either satisfied or frustrated depending on whether their own circunstances matched what they saw at close hand, once a new generation grew up watching TV it began to look at matters differently...
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When residents of cities like Athens or Lisbon, for example, watch programs dipicting urban life in Lyon, Stuttgart, and Los Angels, what they see may well matter more to their sense of themselves than their impression of condictions in the rural villages and farms of the Greek or Portuguese countryside."
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THE MORAL CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH - Benjamin M. Friedman
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