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How Does Culture Define Homelessness?

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For my essay I will be talking about homelessness in three definitions, lexical, cultural and in my personal definition. According to the dictionary homelessness is defined as a person without a home and is living on the street. The lexical definition has narrowed down homelessness, as only those people have no place to live. In my culture, especially due to current situations, they define migrants and refugees as homeless people. They say that in the meaning of that they have ran away from their hometown. The way my culture defines homelessness shows how circumstances and current situations can alter the meaning of the word homeless. My personal definition is that homelessness, also, connects to economical and political problems. In the essay

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