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Fear
"Who we are
by the sociological and political definition of society has little to
do with who we are."
Society presumes who we are by their stereotyping the groups we belong to. Individuals are not often given the opportunity to express who they really are. Not everyone is able to find his or her own voice.
In
a short story entitled "Fear" Gary Soto writes about a boy who had to
deal with shame.
Labeling affects
even those who have never experienced segregation.
W. E. B. Du Bois (the African American writer and civil rights activist) called it "double-consciousness": the feeling of "always looking at oneself through the eyes of others".
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Linda Marfoglio, 2000