ender comes into play when he attended technical school. There he signed a petition for the right to compete with whites in a tournament. This got him expelled. Then he goes to jail for having false travel documents. It is there that he meets the old political revolutionary. This man tells him how to escape the country. He would have never met the man or taken part in the petition if he had been white or if he had been female. This is an instance of gender evolving with race. Once in America he struggles with his cultural integrity and assimilation into society while collaborating friendships with male counterparts. This is an
             example of male bonding, which is based on gender. Mark and Zach use there shared gender and homeland to understand what it means to be South African in America from both their own and each other's perspectives. In both these selections gender ties into the central them of cultural and racial identities.
             "The Girl and the River" in Global Cultures exemplifies how forced modernization can unknowingly hinder the advancement of women in growing countries. A harsh backlash that often causes life altering changes, such as in this story. The government sends a man and his team to build a bridge over a river near a small town. The town does not want a bridge; they have always had a ferry and are happy with that. Now the ferryman is out of work, and the people despise the builder for bu
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