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Political and technological development are rapidly obliterating all cultural difference and it is possible that, in a not remote future,it will be impossible to distinguish human beings living on one area of the earth's surface from those living on any other.The most striking difference between an America and European is the difference in their attitudes towards money.Every European knows that, in Europe ,wealth could only be acquired at the expense of other human beings, either by conquering them or by exploiting their labor in factories.Even after the industries Revolution began, the number of persons who could rise from poverty to wealth was small; the vast majority took it for granted that they would not be much richer or proper than their fathers.In consequence, no European associates wealth with personal merit or poverty with personal failure.In the United State, wealth was also acquired by stealing,but the real exploited victim was not a human being but poor Mother Earth and her resource which were ruthlessly plundered.thanks to the natural resource of the country, every, American, until quite recently, could reasonably look forward to making more money that his father, so that if he made less, the fault must be his; he was either lazy or inefficient.What an American values, therefore is not the possession of money as such, but his power to make it function and can be lost or given away.In no society in history have rich men given away so large a part of their fortunes.
In the first paragraph of the passage, the author asserts that technological advances-
