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Joseph lives in a country where he is not allowed to go to school with white students since he is not white. He can only eat in certain restaurants, and he has a government-mandated curfew based on his race. He cannot buy a house in certain parts of town and must sit on the left side of the bus. Joseph lives in a town that is __

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Joseph lives in a town that is "segregated".


Segregation refers to the institutional partition of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority aggregate from the overwhelming greater part.

Residential segregation in the United States is the physical partition of at least two gatherings into various neighborhoods, or a type of isolation that sorts population bunches into different neighborhood settings and shapes the living condition at the area level.

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