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Often people feel threatened by things they cant place a label on. I believe it’s just human nature to view something, and then try to associate or place a label on it. This is very evident in the story of X. This is definitely, a story written to influence the readers behavior. The bold X in the author’s writing is a deliberate attempt to confuse the reader. The X is in contrast to the rest of the article. Although the story of X contains a message of “acceptance”, it also contains connotations that, it’s not ok to be part of the norm. The beginning of the story opens with the scientist, a permanent group, trying to find the “right” parents to raise baby X. To qualify as the parents, they would have to basically disregard all the norms and roles that is attributed to families, primary group, of today. When a newborn is brought home in society, it’s customary for the husband to pass out blue cigars for a boy and pink for a girl. (a type of symbol to communicate gender) In the case of X, when they arrived at home, the friends and relatives, primary formal and informal groups, didn’t know how to react when the Joneses told them X wasn’t a boy or a girl, but an X! The friends and relatives were displaying an authoritarian p
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Occasionally Joneses, , boy girl, role conflict, perceptual defense, boys girls, parents children teachers, social comparison theory, taught childhood, machiavellian personality, parents children, role set, children teachers, xs gender,
Approximate Word count = 1229
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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