ESSAY CONTEST

Everyone Is Caught in Culture’s Trap

Incite Change Essay Contest #3: Freedom

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No one is born free from the trap of culture.

Far from being merely comprised by “institutions” and abstract “systems,” the cultures that bind us are made up of the living, breathing human beings we grew up around — our parents, friends, school officials, etc.