Debate statement:
“Contemporary society has done enough to respond to the legacies of historical globalization.”
The criteria that I based my position on were the following:
What does responding effectively mean?
What legacies of this issue(s) have led to contemporary globalization?
What is a legacy?
My position for this debate is strongly disagree. The events that have occurred in the past still affect society today. Take an event like the Rwandan Genocide that happened a little under twenty years ago, eight hundred-thousand to one million people killed within one hundred days. The Rwandan Genocide had begun in April immediately after the President of Rwanda and Burundi’s plane was shot down. Tutsi’s, which made up the minority of Rwanda but were the higher class cattle farmers, were accused of shooting down this plane. At that point, the Hutu’s had begun a genocide that shocked the world. As you seen in the movie, Sometimes in April, the American government does not do as much as they were capable of. Romeo Dallaire, who was appointed Force Commander for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), where he witnessed he country descend in chaos. Since he has retired, he has written two best-selling books, founded The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, an organization committed to ending the use of child soldiers worldwide. He was involved in the Genocide and he has said that there was much more that he could have done to help; but he didn’t, and he is still mentally and emotionally scarred. The Belgium, French and Americans and at the United Nations were aware of the Hutu’s plans of slaughtering and did not take the steps to prevent it. They never did anything to eliminate the radio broadcasting promot...
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...rom all races of any other color – black, Asian or anything else.
Position – strongly disagree
Reason – people should not be discriminated against because of their race or ethnic background. The major event that turned the whole event around was a photo of two people protesting, holding a child dying in their arms. This made the apartheid change and eventually broke it. The people of different origins that were not white were shunned and it was almost acceptable at the time because the black people at the time were still not accepted in to society.
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In the years after the genocide, we as people had questioned our past decisions and our countries decision to stay out of the genocide until it was too late. I too have question my countries decision. Why didn’t the US interfere with the genocide and be the hero my favorite historical anime, Hetalia, made it out to be? I believe not helping the innocent people being murdered in Rwanda was wrong of all the countries of the world but now it is too late to change the past and we can only look to the future. We can look to the future and hope and pray that another genocide never occurs but it’s useless. As long as there are people, there will be hate and as long as there is hate there will be murder.
Apartheid was a system of separation of the races both politically and socially in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. This system was said to be one of the last examples of institutionalized racism, and has been almost universally criticized. These Apartheid rules and restrictions were put in place by the National Party which had power over South Africa during this time period. The purpose of Apartheid legislation was to bring the Afrikaner ethnic group to a higher power in South Africa, and accomplished just that. The Afrikaner group was made up of descendants from Dutch colonists who settled in South Africa in order to make a refreshment station, a sort of rest stop, for the Dutch East India Company. The longer people stayed in Africa, the more they started to associate with it as their home. With the enslavement of many Africans, it is easy to see how these Afrikaners would associate themselves as above them and would feel entitled to power over them. This entitlement it how Apartheid rules were born.
For nearly forty-six years whites ruled South Africa with licit supremacy under Apartheid laws. With roots in its history, the segregation of races reigned from its colonization by the Dutch to the late 1900's when it was weakened by social unrest and financial burden, and finally abolished by Nelson Mandela. The impact of apartheid stood after apartheid's abolition, as non-whites still had unresolved feelings towards those who supported apartheid, but with Mandela's election and the renouncement of apartheid laws, the country could move forward toward creating a "rainbow nation."
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South Africa’s racial problems began when the white people came and discovered South Africa with its black population. The white people wanted power because there were many fewer whites than blacks. The only way to achieve that was to change the government around so that only white people had political power. The three terms that were used to describe racial groups under the system of apartheid were European, Native and Coloured.
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South Africa really began to suffer when apartheid was written into the law. Apartheid was first introduced in the 1948 election that the Afrikaner National Party won. The plan was to take the already existing segregation and expand it (Wright, 60). Apartheid was a system that segregated South Africa’s population racially and considered non-whites inferior (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”). Apartheid was designed to make it legal for Europeans to dominate economics and politics (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”).
The apartheid was a very traumatic time for blacks in South Africa. Apartheid is the act of literally separating the races, whites and non-whites, and in 1948 the apartheid was now legal, and government enforced. The South African police began forcing relocations for black South Africans into tribal lines, which decreased their political influence and created white supremacy. After relocating the black South Africans, this gave whites around eighty percent of the land within South Africa. Jonathan Jansen, and Nick Taylor state “The population is roughly 78 percent black, 10 percent white, 9 percent colored, and l...
Apartheid in South Africa became a huge issue due to the loss of human rights. Apartheid segregated and created problems between the whites and blacks of South Africa. Many of the blacks of South Africa had their rights violated due to the National Party making the white minority more powerful. Which automatically made the white richer and the black poorer. This was all changed when Nelson Mandela and F.W. De Klerk joined the African National Congress (ANC) and stood up against the National Party which created a more equalized South Africa.