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Sexism In The Lee Family

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Racism and sexism are the root causes of the Lee family´s dysfunction because when James became his introductory history course about cowboys, he feels racially, marginalized, and excluded from American culture. Sexism is one of the causes why Marilyn didn´t become a doctor. Back in Middlewood, James takes Nath to the Y, where Nath experienced bullying and humiliation by the other neighborhood children in the pool. James a fourth year graduate student performed a new course called “The Cowboy in American Culture”, where Marilyn took that course. She is surprise to find that he is Asian and to hear someone who has a perfect American accent, unlike the racist stereotypes she has heard about how Chinese people speak. According to

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