Said's article implicates the notion of "resistance" when explaining the effects of imperialism on culture and its desire of emancipation. He describes the process of domination and resistance as a "fissure" that affects every level of society including individual's social identity. In other words, the overarching existence of the dominant forces that colonize those at the peripheries vigorously complicate cultures' position in relation to the world. Individual cultural identities struggle to understand their place as a part of the external ideas/systems that continue to obscure their traditional views. Like Said, Mulk Raj Anand understands imperialism in cultural terms as described in his novel Untouchable. In Untouchable Anand gives an insight of the British acquisition of India by illustrating the voice of the "voiceless" class. Anand and Said demonstrate the huge social transformation that is caused by imperialism and how different cultures respond and resist to colonial domination.