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Realities of Steriotypes
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Passage: “Delaney felt his guilt turn to anger, to outrage. God, how he hated that sort of thing-the litter alone was enough to set him off. How many times had he gone down to one trail or another with a group of volunteers, with the rakes and shovels and black plastic bags? And how many times had he come back, sometimes just days later, to find the whole thing trashed again? There wasn’t a trail in the Santa Monica Mountains that didn’t have its crushed beer cans, its carpet of glass, its candy wrappers and cigarette butts, and it was people like this Mexican or whatever he was who were responsible, thoughtless people, stupid people, people who wanted to turn the world into a garbage dump, a little Tijuana . . . Delaney was seething, ready to write his congressman, call the sheriff, anything-but then he checked himself. Maybe he was jumping to conclusions. Who knew who this man was or what he was doing? Just because he spoke Spanish didn’t make him a criminal. Maybe he was a picnicker, a bird-watcher, a fisherman; maybe he was some naturalist from South of the Border studying the gnatcatcher or the canyon wren . . .” (Page 11) Imagine trying to go to a place that would give you the opportunity to work an honest living and make money to buy a nice house, a decent car, and allow your children to have a free education; a place where you didn’t have to wash your clothes by hand in the river, or go to the bathroom in a bush behind your house.
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Title: Realities of Steriotypes
Words: 1091
Rating: None
Pages: 4.4
submitted by: kjkohli2005
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