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Colony vs Apartheid - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between colony and apartheid

is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while apartheid is apartheid (south african policy of racial discrimination).

colony

English

Noun

(colonies)
  • A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin
  • Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
  • * Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain .
  • A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area
  • * The in Iowa were settled by people from Germany
  • A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
  • * ant colony
  • * The Portuguese Man O' War (Physalia physalis), also known as the bluebubble, bluebottle or the man-of-war, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore — a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids. Wikipedia article on (w, Portuguese Man o' War)
  • A collective noun for rabbits.
  • Derived terms

    * colonial (adj., n.) * colonialism (n.) * colonise, colonize * colonist (n.) * colonyhood (n.) * Cologne (city, n.) * penal colony * space colony

    apartheid

    Noun

  • (historical) The discriminatory policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, pages 127-8:
  • The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.
  • (by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation/segregation and discrimination.
  • * 1963 , Justice William O. Douglas, concurring, Lombard v. Louisiana (373 U.S. 267):
  • When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public .
  • (by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
  • * 2008 , Peter Hewitt, Kenya Cowboy: A Police Officer's Account of the Mau Mau Emergency (ISBN 1920143238), page 64:
  • Fifteen minutes drive to the Brown Trout was guaranteed to satisfy my appetite because there, as with other clubs and hotel bars, a form of sex apartheid was practised. The males assembled in the region of the bar and the opposite gender either sat discreetly detached or strayed outside to gossip gaily among themselves.
  • * 2009 , Moorthy Muthuswamy, Defeating Political Islam: The New Cold War (ISBN 1615921389), page 120:
  • In these annual reports, the religious apartheid practices in India are not mentioned at all.
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