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Prejudice Against Women
Much of the prejudice against these girls stem from our culture’s general lack of respect for different ethnicities, genders, or social classes. Nearly all of the girls that Rachel Lloyd met while working with minors in the sex trafficking industry were girls of color from families that were low on the socioeconomic

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