The text below is from the subtitle of a documentary, The Century of The Self.
In the text, I cannot figure out what that stands for?
Can you tell me what it is?
In 1927 an American journalist wrote: A change has come over our democracy, it is called consumptionism. The American citizens' first importance to his country is now no longer that of citizen, but that of consumer. The growing wave of consumerism helped in turn to create a stock market boom.
Top answer
that = importance to his country
— Mister Micawber
that = importance to his country
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