Archetype's Unwanted People

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Being an outsider can have many negative effects on a person, such as hindering a person’s level of participation and their ability to function in a community. The harmful labels and prejudices against a person, group, or race can keep a person from having the same opportunities as those around them, effectively preventing their participation. Unfortunately, there are many examples of this in the book The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore and the Spiegel online article, “Europe’s Unwanted People.” In The Other Wes Moore, the author Wes and his family had often been outsiders in school, making participation and learning harder. On page eight, he described how his mother, Joy, moved to the Bronx from Jamaica and how “She studied the other kids at

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