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The outsiders a'la Shmoop.... They're

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white they're in tulsa oklahoma I think that the stigma [Gang in Tulsa]

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against long hair obviously has some racial implications There are

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native americans in oklahoma that have over the years had

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many different relationships to white settlers but have largely been [Native Americans at a table]

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stigmatize s oh there is this weird sense that having

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long hair long dark hair makes you seem lesser than

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other people less clean less well kept and certainly class

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is a big issue Pony boy talks about seaming educated

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or not educated people worry about having money or not

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having money So yeah there's a lot of stigma to [Ponyboy holding cash and poor man appears]

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basically being not the normative successful quote unquote clean, perfect person...

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