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Band 6+: Do you believe that governments should prioritize funding for arts and culture, or for scientific research?

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I think it depends on the situation, like in general, how hard the economic hardship is. But I think that funding can be helpful to get out of hardship because if you can entertain people with arts or cultural events, galleries, that can be beneficial. Well, you can just have a payment, and they can pay for some entertainment. So yeah.

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I think it depends on the situation like in general how hard economic hardship is but I think that can be helpful for out from to get out from hardship because if If you can entertain people by some arts or culture events, gallery, that can be… Well, you can just have a payment and they can pay for some entertains. So yeah.

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