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Difference Between Saints And Roughnecks
The Saints were perceived as rich, well-dressed, well-mannered boys who did well in school and were barely in trouble with the local police. Whenever they did something wrong, the community saw it as them engaging in harmless pranks. The Roughnecks, however, were perceived as delinquents, who were always getting in trouble with the local police. They were not rich, and were not as well-dressed as the Saints. In reality, the Saints were actually more unruly than the Roughnecks.
Because the community viewed the Roughnecks as “delinquents” the boys began to see themselves in that way. They started behaving in a way that further reinforced that label. They started hanging around people that further deviated them from societal norms, and they started
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