Did Mandela really do good to South Africa? (compare, terrorist, elect)
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Actually South Africa is usually considered a 2nd World nation (those terms are non-PC now, by the way) in the same grouping as South Korea, Spain and Taiwan.
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Taiwan, South Korea, and Spain are definitely not 2nd world.
BTW, 2nd world really really a term, unless you're talking about the Soviet Union and the eastern block.
Yeah, the black population should just have peacefully voted for anti-apartheid politicians. Oh, wait - they couldn't vote. That sorta did reduce their options...
So their first political movement could be asking for the right to vote... And then vote the apartheid politicians out, or change the constitution etc.
A country is made up by its inhabitants. When the majority of the inhabitants are kept firmly under a minority's thumb, that's a problem. That, in fact, makes the country worse by any decent person's yardstick. (I'd prefer to say a country is made up by its citizens, but black South Africans weren't even citizens, remember?)
Hong Kong was ruled by British too. However the Chinese waited till 1997 to take it back. They could have done that much earlier, but they chose not to.
Taiwan, South Korea, and Spain are definitely not 2nd world.
BTW, 2nd world really really a term, unless you're talking about the Soviet Union and the eastern block.
They're not 1st World (US, England, France, Japan), they're not 3rd World (most of Africa and Asia that aren't dirt poor), so most put them in the 2nd.
OK, I see that the definitions have been changed because of the ****stans in SW Asia.
Oh, that's brilliant! The government that disenfranchised and forcefully relocated them in the first place would surely bow to the force of arguments.
Yes, because the government is made of people, who change their mind along time. If white people in the US did not change their mind, do you really think blacks could succeed? Things are all connected.
Yes, because the government is made of people, who change their mind along time.
That really is your solution? Wait for the despots to stop being despotic? And in the menatime, meekly accept the random imprisonments, the beatings, the inferior schools and hospitals, the forced relocation, being stripped of citizenship, vote, voice?
Remind me to not count on you if things turn ugly.
That really is your solution? Wait for the despots to stop being despotic? And in the menatime, meekly accept the random imprisonments, the beatings, the inferior schools and hospitals, the forced relocation, being stripped of citizenship, vote, voice?
Remind me to not count on you if things turn ugly.
Well, there are many ways to change the status quo.
Some prefer a quick revolution, others prefer a slow reform.
In the 1950s, South Africa was even better than now is, compared to other African countries
For whom? Black people were being treated horribly and subjected to a dictatorship.
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