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Originally posted by halfoldman
Don't they recall that just two decades ago apartheird was supported by the Bible, and Raegan and Thatcher supported it?
Originally posted by halfoldman
Reviewing some threads on normal and abonormal sexuality, I'm struck by the fact that in the 1980s (my childhood) one never saw interracial couples in film, unless it was for deliberately controversial material like "Guess who's coming to dinner?".
Now, it seems that DNA evidence is revealing a lot of historical coupling.
I think of apartheid's Immorality Act, the "stolen generation" in Australia, or even trying to breed out the undesireables with eugenics and Nazism.
How do people feel nowadays?
Does US "WASP culture" welcome interracial kids?
edit on 26-9-2010 by halfoldman because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by halfoldman
reply to post by snowspirit
Not sure, I once had a thread on the Abnaki people, whose numbers were massively reduced with forced sterilization, along with those of poor Catholics, and that was in the era of Eugenics (1920s) in Canada.
Doesn't sound too tolerant.
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Originally posted by halfoldman
reply to post by snowspirit
Well, I suppose everyone is in denial.
Even white apologists for apartheid. They say that the SA black population (which arrived here from Congolese migrations in the 17th century, and displaced the truly indigenous Khoisan peoples) increased from 3 million (apparently in 1820) to 40 million during colonialization and apartheid. Apartheid offered the highest general living standards and hospitals for blacks in Africa and the diaspora.
We (I'm using a general argument that I often hear) were the only colonial country that did not decrease it's indigenous population, or try to wipe/breed it out.
Yet countries like Canada, Australia, the US and New Zealand pointed fingers at us!
How amusing.
edit on 26-9-2010 by halfoldman because: (no reason given)