Cluster Connections

So far i find that all my classes are very connected, even to the point of connections being made with what was taught in one class on a certain day and what is taught in another class on the same day. Everything learned in english seems to flow into anthropology and ends up in sociology. The ideas of race being a social construct is a prime example that appears in every class and something that keeps appearing in every day life situations. The way i see things have been changed slightly due to this. One major change is the way i interpret what media claims and my animes. I watch a lot of anime, japanese cartoons, and the way i view them has changed drastically since i started taking these classes. I have been able to see racial construction happen and how it affects a society short and long term in anime alone so far. It was scary at first because you normally watch anime and take things at face value but after finishing one of my favorite shows i was able to pick up so many things about racial construction and the way society works once the idea of race is in place. Shin Sekai Yori is the name of the anime and it is about humans, the superior race, and how they interact with queerats, the most intelligent life form in their world under the humans. As i watched the show i didn't pick up on most of this until an episode where a queerat claimed he was human. This was what triggered my train of thought that led to it being related to class. Technically they were all the same species. The only difference was that the humans claimed that the queerats were unintelligent creatures and places a lot of labels on them. Over many years the queerats became a whole new "race" below the humans.  I found this connection to be the most fascinating to my classes and one that has even made me more excited to be in this cluster.