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Racial Stereotypes In Born A Crime By Trevor Noah

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Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah, is a novel about living life to the best of your ability (even if there are racial stereotypes). Trevor narrates his own life growing up, literally, born a crime. He lived through all of the struggles that life threw at him as he learned to see the world with a positive spin. Trevor described it all with humor and a relaxed tone, giving the reader a sense of “a day in the life of Trevor” feeling. Growing up as half black, half white isn’t easy during apartheid in South Africa. Trevor comically describes the feeling of finding out that, after all his years spent growing up in hiding, he could have just moved. He writes: “Imagine being thrown out of an airplane. You hit the ground and break all your bones, you go

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