In the novel Untouchable, we see a world where a caste system is in play and people are segregated into different types of classes.  The novel takes place in an Indian society and is in British rule, it talks about how the British culture interacts with a young "untouchable" man. The main character Bakha the young untouchable man seems to question the Indian society for the caste system that he is in. he is often called such mean and hurtful names which i would rather not mention. He see the British as an icon, he is astonished on how the British culture works.

              The novel highlights the issues of  racial formation by showing Bakhas experience of that. He is often always dealing with the stereotypical Indian people, for he is an untouchable the society sees him as inferior and undesirable. It is important to know that Indian society enforced this paradigm of "caste system" to each and every one. wither British, Hindu or Muslim the ideology of the caste system explains how people act and how they are. The caste system acts a lot like racial formation for it too creates racial categories from a white hierarchy to the bottom an untouchable where Bakha is. For a young untouchable man he too is hungry of power, he is in the lowest class but yet he tries make him self look like the British. based on Bakha point of view he is actually experiencing false consciousness he, should live his own life being a Hindu rather than wanting to be British. he is astonished on how the British culture is, Bakha wants to be like the dominant white that shows how he is hunger of power. His ideology of powers comes from the image of a white man. He sees the white man as an icon but yet the white man are the ones who enforced this idea of racial categories. But also it is important to know that because of how society acts around Bakha, emotions are the ones that make him see the white man as an ideal person. Because in society he is treated harshly, he is blinded by his emotions and that's what makes him desire the white man's life style.

Race and Culture cluster

            It is really quite amazing how college made me realize things i would never have even thought about. How society enforced the idea of race to each and every one of us just to label us different from one another. The Race and Culture cluster made me realize how race is connected to culture it is a very touchy topic. Race is always connected with culture, for culture makes everyone's ideology in life different. and with this difference we are always in differentiated with elite white man". for having white skin seems to have power among other races but all of this was all socially constructed.

           Through classes like Anthropology and Sociology Ive come to realize that me and you are not so different  we may look different but inside we are more alike than people think. it is important to know that we as human species came from one scientific Adam and one scientific Eve. And different cultures that we are exposed to make our unique personalities. In less than 3 months this cluster has made me look at the different side of society. I am excited to learn more about how society operates with each day goes by something new happens.

               
  First of all i would have never found this interesting if it wasnt for twitte. Through Gregory Lobo Jost  realized how the Bronx has a lot of potential, also i always had an idea of how expensive it is to live in Manhattan. But i never really imaged it to be like this, the average two-bedroom apartment is selling for $1.8 million. Now for a two bedroom apartment in Queens it would be i guess in the range of $1,300-2,200 a month, for $1.8million id be set with that money. I wouldn't spend money just like that, thats crazy. now excuse me for my slang "it ain't trickn if you got it" but with what Gregory is pointing out are reasonable prices in the Bronx And actually if i had the money i would invest on it my self. But also i wanna point that I too would love to live in Manhattan, who wouldnt its the richest island i should say.                 

          In the year 2001 Anti-Islamic hate crimes spiked up greatly, so high that it was the highest its ever been.  The graph shows no information but one; it only says Anti-Islamic hate crime. Now Im guessing the graph was posted after the 9/11 attack when tensions were high and everybody was going crazy due to the fact that for the first time the U.S. was attacked in American soil. We should understand that through out that year crimes against Islamic decent were attacked, wither if they were innocent or not.  Men, women and children were attacked, traumatized and will forever be scared for the actions that were made. Not only that but after 2 years America waged war with the Middle East and more people were being slaughtered, but the graph didn't show that information. It lacked information about the Muslims that were at the middle east, and in America. But it lacked the information about Americans that were doing the hate crimes, the Americans that were at war.