In March 1989, University of Texas at Austin premed student Mark Kilroy disappeared during a drunken spree that led him and hundreds of spring-breakers from South Padre Island across the Texas border into Matamoros, Mexico. What promised to be a carefree week of surf, sun and [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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There are a lot of teenagers (not especially mexican-american) who feel segregated because they are different from everybody else. The way society treats them is what makes them to do violent things. Theres a stereotype of those who dress in all black which contributes to their segregation. It needs to be addressed exactly like racism and sexism, because it’s just as harmful.
“contributes to their segregation”
No one has to contribute to the segregation of those who segregate themselves from society at large.
If you want to be different, be different, but don’t complain if others recognize it as difference.
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