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Young men at the event were wary of speaking on the record for fear of potential impacts on their romantic prospects and the notion that they might be ostracized at work.

Historically, mixed-race Koreans have been ostracized in Korean culture, and in the U.S. less so, but still, there was this sense that they didn’t really feel like they belonged in either culture.

Until Kennedy, courts prohibited school prayer because of the coercive pressure it put on atheist, Jewish, Muslim and other non-Christian students to either pray along or be ostracized.

Akin, a Swedish filmmaker whose family originally hails from Georgia, knows this is a story tinged with sadness for lives that have been ostracized and marginalized.

And then they find themselves lost and isolated and ostracized.