While I do believe that heterosexuals do suffer from homophobia as well, homosexuals definitely suffer a much greater amount. Recently my good friend's brother was actually jumped because he was a homosexual. ... This bothers me a great deal as I realize that my dad is victim to the stereotypes that most people hold in regard to homosexuals. ... This definition describes the reason why racism still exists, as white people see no need to change a system that works to there advantage. ...

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Language speaks us; language defines our identity, our cultural makeup, our ideologies, our definition of self. ... We can apply the ideas of borderlands to less prominent borders beyond the obvious physical, ideological, and linguistic border of Mexico/US that Anzald a delineates: e.g., think of the heteroglosic languages, ideologies of the borders between homosexual/heterosexual, male/female, et cetera. ...

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