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RE: Inconsistencies in apartheid

in #life7 years ago

Original perspective. Perhaps for the whites in apartheid these tin cups and plates were necessary props to demonstrate the lesserness of the non-whites within the household, reinforcing the 'them and us' and somehow offsetting the inevitable intimacy of having 'them' living in their home and raising their children. So when physical segregation wasn't possible, symbolic segregation stepped in to keep the ideology constant.