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2. The neighborhood was better than I had assumed. The street was clean, and the building was nice. When we were in the caregiver’s home, the very first thing I noticed was the uncomfortably strong scent that could not be ignored. And then I looked around the home, found that the room was not well organized, the dark light made the room looked unclean, the furniture looked old. All I saw fit into my pattern of what a low-income household ought to look like. This was the point where I understand Dr. Unger’s comments on my first paper that people may not get rid of privilege when they were in the privilege group, just like what I had done on stereotyping a picture of a low-income family unintentionally.

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