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Fat Pride World Wide Summary

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The article “Fat Pride World Wide” by Juliet Samuels describes the conflict in the US where “fat” people are claiming that prejudice and discrimination of larger people is a problem. This is met with the rising amounts of “fat pride” and “fat acceptance movements” which sparks many controversies. In my opinion, I disagree with these movements because they are ways to normalize being overweight (which is not a positive thing). It makes people more comfortable with being overweight even though it is a very unhealthy lifestyle. Some people out there are natural larger but there’s a difference between being too heavy that it impacts your health and just having a larger frame. Movements like these might make it easier to confuse the two thus leading

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