What I find interesting about untouchables is how Bahka behavior is affected by this racial formation created through a caste sytem. A society full of division and unequality, where there is an idea of an inferior and superior race, class, and social status.

This paradign created by this racial and social caste system has Bahka wishing to be an Englishmen and enduring punishment by being an "Untouchable". "The grass is always greener on the other side right"? He has been through so much you would think he would grow up to be cold and soulless like some of his peers but he isn't. When the kid got hit with the rock and he was bleeding asking for help everyone turned the other cheek except for Bahka. Why is that? Why is it also even after this good deed he was ridicueled by his parents for it?

We see that the idea of racial formation is being forced on bahka by his own parents. This is what colonization at work. The motives of divide and conquer is at play here with the lower class choosing to expand the idea of who is superior within their own class

This cluster has definitely been an eye opener for me on race and culture. I now have these questions in my head like does the idea of slavery still hang around in today's society? Are we slaves to society through our jobs? I realize race is alot more complicated than I thought it was. Tannenbaun, which was my favorite read so far, has taught me that. I now pay attention to the news and what goes on around the world with a different perspective. I even have conversations about these things with my mom now. But with this knowledge I still feel sadness because i still see suffering in todays society because of their so called race.
Another eye opener is how I feel governments don't tell their society everything and lie to their people. Will U.S.A take back it's american dream? Guess we'll have to wait and see.

This idea that I'm living in a paradign and I didn't even know it is a bit overwhelming but now my new goal is to find a way out of it. A paradigm can sometimes feel like someone has already decided your future and how you are gonna live it. I don't want that to be me. Whatever I do I know I'm gonna make it. But anyway these classes have taught me aa lot and want to continue to learn more and raise more question

We a graph thats shows statistics of the ammont of Anti-islamic hate crimes commited between the years on 1995 to 2008. It shows the hate crimes were very low till 2001 when it increased drastically. then  between 2002 and 2008 it lovered bhut still was hight than it was before 2001. In this graph we can conclude in 2001 there was alot of anti-islamic hate crime due to 9/11 terrorist attack. We can understand to an extent why people would feel a certain way about about islamic people however it does not justify the commitment of hate crimes against innocent people. What gets me fustrated is people expect the violence to stop with more violence. One of the problems i have with this source I would like to know what was the percentages of who committed these anti- islamic hate crimes.