I know a country in the middle east used it to murder a lot of citizens. But what exactly is it?
2006-06-21 11:12:08 · 4 answers · asked by degrey182 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Do you mean Apartheid?
2006-06-21 11:15:49 · answer #1 · answered by 2007_Shelby_GT500 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soon2B is correct.
Great quote, BTW, from a movie called the American President with Michael Douglass (title role). He is dating someone who was photographed during a demonstration against Apartheid, and his political opponent's want to use the demonstration against him. His comment:
"Let me see if I got this. The third story on the news tonight is that someone I didn't know 13 years ago ... participated in a demonstration at which no laws were broken in protest of something that so many people were against that it doesn't exist anymore. Just out of curiosity, what was the fourth story..."
Apartheid was a horrible thing in South Africa, and it is terrible that the same thing keeps happening in other countries. And the only thing that is sadder is when this gets used to score political points.
2006-06-21 12:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apartheid occurred in South Africa. Apartheid (an afrikaans word) literally means "apartness." Under apartheid, people were legally classified into a racial group - the main ones being White, Black, Indian and Coloured - and were geographically, and forcibly, separated from each other on the basis of the legal classification. The Black majority, in particular, legally became citizens of particular "homelands" that were nominally sovereign nations but operated more akin to United States "Indian Reservations" and Canadian "Aboriginal Reserves." In reality, a majority of Black South Africans had never resided in these "homelands."
In practice, this prevented non-white people — even if actually resident in white South Africa — from having a vote or influence, restricting their rights to faraway homelands which they may never have visited. Education, medical care, and other public services were sometimes claimed to be separate but equal, but those available to non-white people were in fact vastly inferior.
2006-06-21 11:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous 20-Something 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Yes, and is also currently going on in Palestine.
2006-06-21 11:22:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋