The Importance Of Division In The United States

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Division is created when people see others as threats. One will see you there selves and those around them the correct way to be, and when they go out into the world and meet people with different values and ways of living they will not know how to interact with them. Creating different labels for people is not what divides us; the division appears when those labels are the only words people grasp. this passage made me think about some police officers mentality when it comes to minorities. In many instances, kids have to grow up with a different kind of strength. The lack of inequality stands out when the speaker talks about how they are hungry. They know that their "enemy" is deprived in ways they are not. The questions written in the passage

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