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Aparthied
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In all of human history there have been numerous racially discriminatory societies, like those of the medieval European nations and those of modern western societies. Few however have ever attempted full racial segregation like that of the South Africa’s “Apartheid” policy in the period from 1948 to 1994. The question that is posed by this horrendous breach of human and civil liberties is how this system was formed and molded by nationalism and more importantly, why? The first European society to manifest itself in Africa was that of the Dutch traders in 1652 that used the cape region for a trading and shipping stopover on way to India and to the prosperous Dutch East Indies. Three and a half decades later the first permanent settlers arrived; French and other European nationals fleeing religious persecution because of the puritanical and authoritarian nature of their Huguenot faith. One of their mainstay’s was the notion of “pre-destination”-that god had not created all men equal and some were marked for damnation and others were destined to be “hewers of wood and carriers of water” and were marked for this task by being black, hence why native slavery was rampant in their society. Their fervor about their nation and their unspoken political power was eventually passed down to their descendants the powerful Dutch Reformed Church. After living in relative obscurity for a century their society was once again exposed to the outside world at the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars in 1814 (Britain had profiteered the Cape Colony from the Dutch through use of the post war negotiations). When the British moved into the colony the Afrikaners (the descendants of the Huguenots changed their names to “Afrikaans” to indicate their permanent settlement of Africa) were appalled at “immoral” attitudes of the liberalist British and took the British abolition of the slave trade and their social traits (playing sport on Sunday’s; not keeping the Sabbath holy) as a sign of their “heathen attitudes”.
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Title: Aparthied
Words: 1319
Rating: None
Pages: 5.3
submitted by: nuggethead
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