What is the difference between APARTHEID & SEGREGATION?

Question

I mean aside from the fact that one was in Africa and the other in the United States.

Answer 1

Apartheid - (noun) any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.

Segregation - (noun) The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities, especially as a form of discrimination.


So, Apartheid is a government sanctioned sort of thing - there are laws (systems) in place to keep people segregated. Segregation is the result. That's my take, at least.

Answer 2

Apartheid was the name given to the social organisation and formalisation of segregation in South Africa. A government policy in fact.

Answer 3

In the South after the abolishment of slavery the former slave masters were furious that they had lost their work force. Three amendments were put into the constitution to secure the freedom, citizenship and rights of the freed slaves. However, segregation was enforced through terror and lynchings and 'sometime thousands of spectators showed up to cheer at lynching proceedings' ( ref. Orlando Regional History Center library). 'Blacks could be arrested and sent to jail on almost any pretex' (ref. ORHC library). This ended in 1950 after the FBI infiltrated the Klu Klux Klan and uncovered what they were doing.
Apartheid on the on the other hand was sanctioned by law.

Answer 4

Apparteid is an Afrikans word that refer to the segregation laws in place in South Africa until the early 90s. Segregation is a much more broader term that can apply to many things, it mean: to put a whole into two or more categories, to split.

Answer 5

Just different words for the same, nasty, thing. Apartheid - the word - is not English but Afrikaans. It was, however, far more institutionalised and subject to legal sanctions in SA compared with segregation in the southern US. For example (and someone will correct me if I am wrong) it was not illegal in the south for white to marry black (although it may have been socially unacceptable) as it was in SA.

Answer 6

i'm guessing segregation is where a minority group is excluded or being treated unfairly because of their race, sexuality whilst apartheid was a regime that existed in south africa, where all minority groups were being largely affected by a rule where the whites were the domineering and ruling social group. thus, things such as 'white only' zones existed back in the days until it was abolished in 1994

Answer 7

Apartheid is Africaans and segregation is English.

Answer 8

Essentially nothing. Probably just rhetoric, if anything.

You can see for yourself by comparing and contrasting the relevant Wikipedia articles (though their reliability is not the best).

God bless.