What is a ancient farmer that had to no reason to hang out near them. Rarely did the living visit, but the dead made their western side there home. What is this?

This is purely allegorical and figurative of the opulence the bourgeois class of humanity enjoy and the pestilence and improverish conditions of densely populated poor society.

Explanation: As seen above,it is a pictorial manifestation of the modern day neocolonialism.

manifest functions are the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern, while latent functions are those unrecognized and unintended consequences. to analyze the manifest functions of any social institution, we have to study its contribution to the continuation of a group, community, or society.

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