Movie

Today in class we started a movie that relates to our cultural geography chapter. We are watching Slumdog Millionaire. The movie shows a lot of culture and how people live in Mumbai and it showed their religion. There was a discrimination between Hindus and Muslims. Hindus were not happy that there were Muslims living anywhere near their area. They would come off this train by the slums where some of the Muslims with sticks and anything else they could use as a weapon. They beat the Muslims and set some of them on fire. There would be people going crazy walking around completely set on fire. It was a terrible scene to watch, it was very graphic and upsetting. They didn't stop and just adults, they took children and also beat them. They didn't care, they just judged them because of their religion and killed many people. It is crazy how some people live in some of those slums in India. They seem like some of the worst places to live. They aren't safe at all because they don't have a proper bathroom and they bathe, drink, and cook, with water from a river that is very dark and very contaminated. The expectancy rate for those people is very low even though people in India have many kids and their birth rate is high. It seems crazy and unbelievable. I am excited to watch more of the movie and find out what happens in the end.