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Ridhwaan’s Patel story Compiled by Johan Hough u21478105 i.	Brief details about my partner’s background The story of Mr Ridhwaan Patel began on the 19 of January 2002 to Miss Shenaaz and Mr Imraan Patel. He grew up with two siblings in Pretoria Brummeria and stayed his whole life thus far in the area. He went to Lynwood Ridge primary school and followed it up with Star college where he finished metric he decided to study computer engineering at a prestige’s university. He chose this engineering discipline, because he enjoys working with computers and doesn’t want to do chemistry. He chose UP over any other university, for the international a credited degrees offered on campus. Mr Ridhwaan identify respectfully as middle class, male, heterosexual, Indian, able bodied and as a fellow South African. This suggests that Mr Ridhwaan follow the social and economic norms.

i.	Becoming aware of racial difference ii. Becoming aware of gender and/or sexual differences iii. Becoming aware of class difference iv. Meanings being attached to class/gender/sexuality/race When interviewing Mr Ridhwaan, he suggests that social norms was accepted at a young age by only looking around at home. His parents lived more to the traditional way of life and imprinting it upon their child in the process. The primary school he attended was very rich culturally by the likes of race and language even different classes. He attributes this diversity to a early understanding of race and class. As he grew older, he started to realise that certain race groups stick together and mostly these groups were in higher or lower classes than other racial groups and concluded that certain racial groups were more privileged than others. Mr Ridhwaan has been stereotyped in the past and point to the Indian stereotype of, Indians being good at maths and computers and embraced it by studying computer engineering, and made him feel more powerful in some of the instances, He explains that when he was stereotyped at being good at maths or computers that he felt a sense of pride and felt more powerful, but when the other types of stereotypes arise, he felt less powerful and that it was unnecessary.

i.	Experiences of stereotyping: you & someone else; what happened He self-admitted that he has stereotyped before in his life and that that he felt more powerful from the event because he did not know of the consequences of such stereotypes. i.	Feelings of privilege in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality (any or all of these categories)? When tasked with the question of are you privileged, he said this. Yes, I am privileged I don’t have to find work to feed myself I can focus on studying without stressing about food on the table. He also referred that; males are preferred over woman in the workplace, so he Is privileged in that sense. Mr Ridhwaan felt that this is not necessary, and we need to improve as a society.