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to the point that he looked Caucasian (Lee, 124). However, the court ruled that skin color wasn’t the main factor in whether a person could become a citizen; being of Caucasian descent was the most important criterion (Lee, 124). A year later, Bhagat Singh Thind, an Indian immigrant, was prevented from naturalizing because although he was racially categorized as Caucasian, the “common man[‘s] view Indians [as] not white” (Lee, 124). The U.S. Supreme Court in both cases manipulated the rules to prevent

habits. Nationalism, as exhibited by Indians, could lead to the desire for national furtherance of a nation or the striving for political independence. Indian Nationalism was propagated by philosophical anarchists, especially Mohandas Gandhi and Bhagat Singh. Indian Nationalists were fiercely occupied with creating their own idiosyncratic form of nationalism. Many Indian nationalists argued for nationalism on the verge of anarchism like Tagore. Tagore believed that european nationalism was “a by-product

there started a voice being raised regarding the backward classes — who were regarded as economically backward — and a further class of ‘Other Backward Classes’, other than the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes came into being and Chaudhary Charan Singh, otherwise and originally a Congressman became the leader and the champion of the Backward classes. During the regime of Indira Gandhi, politics had declined to manipulations and maneuverings to remain in power and the mobilisation of money and muscle

Thus although Sikhs revere saints such as Bhagat Namdev, Bhagat Kabir and Sheikh Farid, but the ultimate Guru (or teacher) of a Sikh is Guru Granth Sahib which include about 10% of the verses of these Saints. The teachings of Bhakti movement are:- 1. a very close relation between the devotee and his

The experience of love is very rare because this is not just a feeling rather than this connects two souls. Whenever we ask, “what is love?” It simply addresses the meaning to the question, which we wonder “Am I loved?” Or we ask “Do I love?” When we are loved, we tend to feel it intuitively in our guts. But he does it work? Is there an extrasensory perception in the heart that is able to read the feelings in another person’s heart, In fact? , it is really not that ethereal or supernatural. On the

mean white. So, why not consider Asian people white because their skin is white. In the American people eyes, you couldn’t be consider white if you didn’t come from Europe. Many people argue that, they even had a court case about it called U.S. V. Bhagat Singh Thind. However, World war two, people felt like China were a friend to the United States but Japan were the enemy (page

In “The Social Construction of Race’’, Ian Lopez states that race is constructed relationally, against one another rather than in isolation on (p.54); we cannot define what whiteness is or is not without making comparison to other entities such as blackness. Therefore, the creation of racial identities by Anglo-Saxons or white Europeans was justification for their offensive activities against other races; including rape, murder, genocide, causing famines, and taking land. Lopez states in his article

The phrase ”Race is a social and cultural construct” means that race classification is socially and culturally defined and influenced, like race or ethnicity, that classifies or describes an individual based on physical characteristics like skin color or hair texture, ancestry and cultural history. Race can be constructed differently in different cultures. An example of this can be how we view sex and gender. Sex is biological and gender is what society believes we should behave or what roles we

When we think of what it means to be white in today’s society, it seems so obvious in our modern eyes of who is white and who is not. Usually we have the mentality in racial aspects of either one person is this or not. What influences our way of differentiating from one person to another is what we were taught in life and from school. In Ian Haney Lopez, White By Law, Lopez discusses how the terms “black” and “white” were not natural categories that were simply there from the very beginning of time

From its inception in 1976, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, have launched a campaign to form a separate independent state for the Tamils in the Northern and Eastern part of Sri Lanka (SATP). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a report in 2008 stating the LTTE to be “among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world” (FBI). According to the FBI report, the LTTE perfected the use of suicide bombers, invented the suicide belt, became the first