Monday, October 22, 2012

DISCUSSION QUESTION #1


1.       What is apartheid? (See Foreword) How did apartheid affect the groups involved (Whites, Colored, Blacks, etc.)? 

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  1. Apartheid is a system where nonwhites lose power and dignity, and then are treated like strangers in their own lands, even though they were there first. Whites were usually the only people who "benefited" from apartheid, while blacks, and other races, were stripped of what they used to have.

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  2. Apartheid is when one group dominates another based on race and ethnicity using fear and physical damage to dominate other cultures. The whites dominated the Africans by taking over their land, making new maps, and making new languages. They separated blacks and whites and brought new diseases like small pox to Africa and infecting the Africans. The whites made new laws to stop Africans from revolting.

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  3. The quote "All of this was about to change, not through revolution, but through election." This statement is about Nelson Mandela becoming the first black president. He also stopped the apartheid. The whites were the most powerful group throughout Nelson Mandela's life. He stopped the segregation between the races. Blacks were no longer the lowest status on the scale. There were some blacks at the top along with some whites and there were some whites at the bottom along with other blacks. There were even both in between. Some of Nelson's ideas before he was elected was to over through the government. If he did this he could possibly get someone who would stop an apartheid in office.

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