conformity
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Advertisers and marketers know exactly how to fidget with our emotions. The marketing industry has seen some changes in the past decade or so, but the modus operandi remains the same- your life is incomplete until you buy this product. This message can be delivered in many ways, but it mostly consists of demeaning the…
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I absolutely detest having to mask the way I feel. It’s just not in my nature. But, in the African culture which I am fully entrenched in, there are certain things that must not be done, said, or even thought. The patriarch of the family must act masculine, without a single speck of weakness or…