Is That What Happened in Europe?

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Oaso: Europe busted out by three important mechanisms. One is this shift to nuclear families, which happened er, you know, in te before the black death a thousand years ago. Two is rapid economic growth in the twentieth century. And then third is feminist activism. Oaso: Is that how we should expect it to happen everywhere? Or is that unusual, that that happened in europe a. And is that something that we would seek to happen everywhere?"

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