Staus symbols are signs that identify their possessors'
place in a social hierarchy, markers of rank and prestigious.                  【A1】________
We can all think any number of staus                                                      【A2】________
symbols- Rolls-Royces, Beverly Hils mansions, even Shar
Pei puppies (whose rareness and expense has rocketed them
beyond Russian wolfhounds as status pets and has even
aspired whole lines of wrinkle- faced stuffed toys)- -but how                【A3】________
do we know that somethingis a status symbol? The explainis                【A4】________
quite simple: when an object (or puppy) either costsalot of
money or requires influential connecions to possessit,                           【A5】________
anyone who possesses it must also possess the necessity                      【A6】________
means and influence to acquire it. The object itself really
doesn't matter, since it ultimate disappears behind the                          【A7】________
presumed social impotency of its owner. Semiotically; what                   【A8】________
matters is the signal it sends, its value as a sign of power. One
traditional sign of social extinction is owning a country e state              【A9】________
and enjoying the peace and pnivacy that attendit.
Advertisements for Mercedes-Benz. Jaguar, and Audi
automobiles thus frequenty feaure motoring quietly along a                 【A10】________
country road, presumably on their way to or from their
country houses.

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