Segregation vs Apartheid - What's the difference?
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The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
(rfc-sense) (biology) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species.
(mineralogy) Separation]] from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the [[crystallize, crystallizing process.
(politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
(sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
(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:
(by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation/segregation and discrimination.
* 1963 , Justice William O. Douglas, concurring, Lombard v. Louisiana (373 U.S. 267):
(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:
* 2009 , Moorthy Muthuswamy, Defeating Political Islam: The New Cold War (ISBN 1615921389), page 120:
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Apartheid is a synonym of segregation.
As nouns the difference between segregation and apartheid
is that segregation is the setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law while apartheid is the discriminatory policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.segregation
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*apartheidDerived terms
* segregationistAntonyms
* desegregationAnagrams
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(wikipedia apartheid)Noun
- 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.
- 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 .
- 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.
- In these annual reports, the religious apartheid practices in India are not mentioned at all.
