When faced with the sociological paradigms of diversity, one is conflicted with many ideals of what is right in a society. Every culture has different socialized norms to conform to and spread among the community. Each culture has different ways of controlling the population into abiding by these norms. Some are influenced by religion, race, and their rank in the social hierarchy. The first article I read was about the use of biometrics by Coalition forces with the “war on terror”. The article explains how the use of biometric documentation of civilians is creating a system of controlling the population, and getting rid of life that is read to be potentially dangerous. The second article focuses on the racialization of surveillance in Canada’s North-West, and how the aim to manage the population of indigenous people is created by a system that still follows the societal normalities produced by settler societies. The system supports the racialization of society, and also feeds into the prejudice held against indigenous peoples. The third article I read focused on the racialized, and gendered sexual violence of honour crimes. Also the article looks at how honour crimes and cultural otherness brought on by people immigrating from places where the social norms are different or strongly held together by tradition and religion. The fourth and final article that I read talked about the tolerance at the Spanish- Moroccan border and the four racialized groups of people that occupy the border town of Ceuta. Through the reading of the four articles, there were three prominent themes that were found in most- if not all of them. I first recognized that all pieces had a racialized ideal that the article would refer to, which was usually “white”. Secondly, the prominence of religious stereotypes is shown in all articles. Thirdly, the aspect of some sort of control over the