精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Text 1In spite of “endless talk of difference，”American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. There is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse， and the casualness and absence of consumption “launched by the 19thcentury department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite. “these were stores “anyone could enter， regardless of class or background. This turned s
