Common Stereotypes In The Los Angeles Times

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Dissention within society leads to destitution for all individuals, despite anyone’s own egotistical sense of superiority. No- one is Immune to the “wide open plains of war and foreign invaders.”
On behalf of the Los Angeles Times, I find it of great necessity to discuss the common stereotypes many of you cling to. As all of you here are interns and grasp on to the innocence that makes you ignorant, I aim to position all you budding journalists to the harsh societal reality of not only what goes on in the Middle-East, but on a larger circumspect than many of you would ever attain to imagine.
Materialistic symbols that separate those subordinate from those who have a key to a Lamborghini, bear no measure to common societal conflicts. Because

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