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Violating Cultural Expectations For my assignment on violating our cultural expectations, I used a urinal next to someone that was using another one. I did this throughout the whole day because I felt that only doing it once wouldn’t be satisfying enough. On Saturday, I went to Victoria Gardens and Ontario Mills with my girlfriend and I thought that it’d be a perfect time to do my assignment on violating our cultural expectations. The first thing that came to my head was using a urinal next to someone that was using theirs. I did this a couple of times throughout the whole day. For the first time I did it, the guy next to me didn’t really react to the fact that I chose the urinal next to his. Then the second time I did it, the guy next
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