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Samuel Seium. I enjoyed the part where the author encourages thinking outside of the box when developing ideas and solutions. When you think inside the box then the only ideas and solutions that you can develop will have to come from inside the box. However, if you think outside of the box then you can develop new and different ideas outside of the box that has not been tried before. This encourages me to think outside the box and encourage the community members to also think outside the box when dealing with social justice issues. For example, I can ask the community what they have done before to help solve their current issues and then we can brainstorm new ideas, which will be lead by the community. As a social justice counselor, helping the community facilitate news ideas will be important if their past ideas were unsuccessful. …show more content…

Oppression by the oppressors is also used at an economic level as well. For example, African slaves were originally seen as an economic stimulus and not an inferior group when they first arrived in the new world. However, that clearly changed over a short time period. Additionally, businesses take advantage of undocumented workers in order to gain a profit and get an advantage over the competition. In monolithic societies, they have the haves and have-nots and the oppressors oppress based on economic reasons as

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