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Breaking free from societal expectations from "summary" of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Growing up in apartheid South Africa, I was born into a world where societal expectations were rigid and unforgiving. As a mixed-race child, I was a living, breathing testament to a crime - the crime of interracial relationships. From the moment I entered this world, I was bound by the chains of society's rules and regulations. I was expected to conform, to blend in, to be invisible. But I refused. I refused to be defined by the color of my skin, by the circumstances of my birth. I refused to let society dictate who I could be, what I could do, where I could go. Breaking free from societal expectations was not easy. It meant going against everything I had been taught, everything I had been told. It meant standing up to those who sought to keep me down, to silence me, to erase me from existence. But I knew that if I wanted to live a life of my own making, a life that was true to who I was, I had to break free. I had to shatter the chains that bound me, that held me back, that kept me from reaching my full potential. And so, I did. I defied the odds, I challenged the status quo, I fought for my rig...
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