Apartheid is defined as strict racial segregation.?
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Here we go...\n\nI am a white south African...young enough not to have had anything to do with apartheid... BUT... the Idea was to give all the black people large homelands... where they could live amongst themselves....in their own culture...and start their own countries if they so wish...some did (Boputhatswana, Venda, Transkei, Ciskei), but most didnt take advantage of that fact...\n\nThe majority of black people chose to come and work in the cities...(they stayed in townships, the most famous one being SOWETO, which stands for SOuth WEstern TOwnships, south west of Johannesburg, near all the gold mines) which was all fair and good, but we asked them to either return home after their work day or remain at their place of work.\n\nNaturally there were some rednecks that took this too far and exploited it...and did alot of damage to our image overseas... and that eventually ended apartheid after the un intruduced sanctions on us.\n\nThe majority of black people fought apartheid, by belonging to the then illegal ANC party, which was sponsored and supported by the then Soviet Union, in an attempt to promote communism in africa. The ANC planted alot of bombs in the 70's and 80's and shed alot of innocent blood...(see the Angola War as well as the Rhodesian bush war) today they are the democratically elected leaders of South Africa, while they still maintain strong communist ties. email me for more info.  acidbuildup@yahoo.com
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Below is a nice list of sites about Apartheid:\n\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/aparthei\nhttp://africanhistory.about.com/library/bl/blSAApartheidFAQ.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid\nhttp://www.answers.com/apartheid\nhttp://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html\nhttp://www.africanaencyclopedia.com/apartheid/apartheid.html\nhttp://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/149.shtml\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/65/ap/aparthei.html\nhttp://www.britannica.com/search?query=apartheid&ct=&fuzzy=N\nhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/aparthei_History.asp\n\nHope you find any of them useful...
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doesnt it say that nobody can be discriminated against based on race?
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The country is Lesotho, a constitutional monarchy.  When South Africa was under British rule, it was administered as a separate colony (apart from a few years) and became a its own country when colonial rule ended.  It looks like it was separate because it was too much trouble for the South African government to want to deal with in the 1870s and early 1880s, so they made the British Crown deal with it.
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Racism, ethnocentrism.
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From the etymology of the term, I say:\nPan = all\nAfricanism = (you know)\nTHus: panafricanism is the effort, idea, concept of uniting or examining Africa all together. It could also mbe a political, art, power, etc., movement.
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The word "apartheid" is originally an Afrikaans word (Afrikaans is very similar to Dutch), and is now used in English as well, to refer to the policies of official racial separation in place in South Africa until recently.\n\nIf you want to use a purely English word to express the same thing, the word SEGREGATIONISM would mean exactly the same thing.  But probably political correctness, or the desire by America to forget its own segregationist past, has made it necessary to pretend we dont have a word for this in English...
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Yes it is. Section 1 of the Constitution (Act 108 of 1996) provides: "The Republic of South Africa is one, sovereign, democratic state founded on the following values..."
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Say you're prejudiced against all races. ;)
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the term urban zone really means the city. it is another term for the ghetto. a ghetto is an underprivileged town with the majority of people from one race.
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Racism is prejudice stemming from race, while prejudice can be anything from hatred because of sex, sexual orientation, religion, culture or nationality.  The list goes on.  It's best to think of racism as more of a division of prejudice.
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Definitely. The cast system in India is an example. Any type of class distinction based on race, color, creed or economic stature is considered racism.
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Having friends and familly from every race, I find it hard to believe that racism can exist if you take the time to meet someone different from yourself and to respect those differences.  You are right, there is a lot of emphasis put on racism.  I am always amazed that people who consider themselves good people think nothing of making some of the comments that they do when they either think that they are with like minded people or when they can do it anonymously as in this forum.  The definition of racism is to believe that one race is superior to another simply because of race.  I can only believe that people who have this belief are truly missing out on some great friendships.  To think that you are better than anyone simply because of race is the epitomy of arrogance.
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Colonialism is lso the same as: expansionism, colonization, imperialism, interventionism
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I'm from SA and am totally against Apartheid! that's the reason why the country seems like it's going down! if there were never a Apartheid Regime and everyone had equal opportunity and education, South Africa would be a first world country!
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the only thing i can think of is the Jim Crow laws\n\nthese were a collection of laws that stopped black people  from doing a lot of things - although it referred more towards segregation and stuff like that.\n\nBut it could easily have been the vehicle barring blacks from voting because  it barred them from doing a lot of other things. The Jim Crow laws were deemed unconstitutional only in 1964.
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Apartheid legislation was enacted as a result of the 1948 elections, bringing the National Party to power