Fatigue And Bilingual Analysis

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All in all one can also put into perspective what positive factors not using the “N-word” could've caused. It can be thought of as, if kids were not taught about it at all would it really be something negative. Yes, it still does making people ignorant on the factor is inevitable. It is used everywhere , for too difficult for that to happen. Along with the same ideal that it is only acceptable if people of that race say it , it is like saying only I can say “faggot” be i'm a homosexual. The real question is who gets to justify what is the correct thing to do. Who gets to justify if those are the correct mentalities. No one does in a way it has to do how one is brought up that allows one to configure if it correct. Yet, even if one is born

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