1. Literary Canon
Many of the views of other times are outdated in the modern society, but because they are part of the literary canon and often taught in school, means that the future generations must read them and can be swayed, unintentionally, to believe that women are insignificant and weak or that blacks are stupid and bestial, causing sexism and racism in a society that is trying to do away with that. ... However the reverse is true, if a work is excluded from the canon it is essentially been described as not worthy of praise, and will eventually fall into oblivion, although its words may ring true for...
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