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Such an opinion is both a product of Brown's liberal ideology and serves to legitimize its corresponding structure. But we believe these people and concerns should and already do affect the quality of the education offered at Brown. The majority of communities in and around Providence have been hit repeatedly by recessions over the last fifteen years. Because many Brown students rarely encounter local residents, it is easy for them not to realize this. This allows the opinions, experiences and realities of most people to seem separate from and dispensable in students' efforts to understand the world around them.