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High culture has no inherent superiority to popular culture, but it is used by the elite to separate themselves from the masses and appear superior. The elite believe that this high culture is in fact superior, generally based on the sole fact that it is inaccessible to most people. However, high culture is often derived from popular culture of the past and it is also necessarily not as well liked as popular culture.

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