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b) only half of the deaths occurred because of cigarette smoking and cholesterol
c) some deaths are attributable to abortive surgical operations
d) medical treatment has made only a little impact on the slowdown of the death rate
Racial discrimination may be as old as human history, but the system of
apartheid - Africans for
"apartness" - was created only in the late 1940s, after the National Party was voted into office
by disgruntled Afrikaners. The apartheid era started with the passage in 1949 of the Prohibition
of
Mixed Marriages Act, which laid the foundation of an elaborate system of discriminatory
legislation. Hence, while most other countries were condemning colonialism, white
South
Africa established a frankly racist regime. Racism alone was not what made apartheid uniquely
evil; prejudice and discrimination existed elsewhere, even in some black countries. However,
by the 1980s, racism was deplored almost everywhere; when other nations succumbed to it,
they did so in violation of their own laws and stated principles. Only in South Africa was
racism the law of the land.
1. Apartheid was...................
a) the systematic racial discrimination between whites and blacks.
b) an unjust disadvantage given to whites.
c) discriminatory legislation passed by the North African state.
d) the ban of interracial marriages.
2. What differentiates apartheid from other kinds of
racial discrimination was -
a) that it was not approved by the whites in South Africa.
b) that it was legally abandoned by the state.
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