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Q 2.11 Marin According to Marin, why are the homeless negatively stereotyped and seen as the other? Instructions: 1. Write a short intro where you respond to the question in one or two sentences (keep in mind the project themes). 2. In the body of your response support your answer by referring to a specific passage from the reading in your own words. 3. Keep in mind the guidelines for understanding the reading and writing a good post. 4. Comment on one other post, elaborating, clarifying, or giving examples. 5. Extra points for responding to a comment on your initial post.

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Marin explain why the homeless are negatively stereotyped and seen as the other because people look at the homeless as people who threw their lives away for all different kinds of reasons like drug addictions. In the passage,"Helping and Hating the Homeless" by Peter Marin, it says, "And, in talking to the good citizens of these cities, I found, almost always, the same thing: confusian and ignorance, simple indifference, but anger too, and fear(168)."