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 * **Modernity is like race.** Just as race does not exist biologically, modernity is not objective either. However, just as racial ideologies influence how people understand human differences, the Western narrative of progress also influences people's understanding of history. The ideology of modernity masks how societies really change, and it serves to make certain kinds of structural domination seem natural and permanent.
-* Social change is never just a **from-to story**, e.g. *from* tradition *to* modernity, *from* gift system *to* capitalism, *from* rural *to* urban, *from* isolated *to* connected, or *from* cultural diversity *to* monoculture, or *from* happy harmony *to* chaos and suffering.
+* Social change is never just a **from--to story**, e.g. *from* tradition *to* modernity, *from* gift system *to* capitalism, *from* rural *to* urban, *from* isolated *to* connected, or *from* cultural diversity *to* monoculture, or *from* happy harmony *to* chaos and suffering.
-* Social change is a **both-and story**, e.g. In contemporary societies, we see both gifts and commodities coexisting, and people simultaneously occupy many different kinds of systems at once which all depend on each other.
+* Social change is a **both--and story**, e.g. In contemporary societies, we see both gifts and commodities coexisting, and people simultaneously occupy many different kinds of systems at once which all depend on each other.
 ## Reference ##
 Chagnon, Napoleon A. 1983. Ya̦nomamö: The Fierce People. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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