These cluster has
made the classes more easy going since basically the main argument is race and
culture but from different points of view. It is interesting since most of the
times some classes that seem difficult for me to understand if it was the only
one it actually makes it easier because different arguments can be applied from
class to another. In my first year college there were classes who talked a bit
of what race is, but never truly how it affected so many aspects over the
years. In Untouchables we can see the difference there is between the English upper
class and the “untouchables” who are the lower class. Reading the book I made a
connection with a video we saw in our anthropology class where this third grade
teacher does a study to her students about discrimination. She divides the
class based on eye color. One day the blue eyed children are in the top and the
browned eyed in the bottom. In a matter of less than 10 minutes they already
have discriminating verbal forms for the browned eyed kids, and a class that were friends at the
beginning, all the sudden they divided and started hating each other just
because they were classified as different. The teacher gave her students a
group test and the “oppressor” or the group how was on the top, had better
scores than the ones who were on the bottom. The same routine was made the next
day but the brown eyed students were in the top this time. The thing that
impressed me the most was that when the group was on top they had better scores
regardless of how they did the day before with the exact same test. It also got
my thinking about Slave and Citizen
by Tannenbaum where he argues about how African Americans were treated as
slaves and about how your skin color determined if you were a slave or not. This
video made me click plus Slave and Citizen got me think over and over again
that what if there would NEVER been a race classification and we weren’t jugged
oppressed, or misunderstood? What if we were all classified as a human being
and not a race or color?
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