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What influences and challenges our ways of expressing differences between ourselves and others?
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What influences and challenges our ways of expressing differences between ourselves and others? In Exotic, or "What Beach Do You Hang Out On?" Tara Masih is struggling with what it means to be called "exotic". She is a woman of multi-racial lineage. In the world today it is very hard to be accepted by society if you are a person of mixed-race. I think that is what Masih is trying to represent in this passage. The essay gives four different meanings of the word exotic, all coming from Webster's Ninth Collegiate. The first being, Introduced from another country: not native to the place where found. Most of the people in America during the settlement of the States were exotic. By this definition the only people in America at this time that weren't exotic would have been the American Indians. The second definition is defined as, archaic: outlandish, alien. This meaning is why...
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