Originally posted by ASROMAHaving grown up in SA, my own opinion is that apartheid by its randomness and stupidity actually helped create an environment where people were forced to overcome their predjudices. That might sound a bit Irish, but by the law enforcing a reality, that presupposed a superiority based on fairness of skin colour ( one of the most easily collapseable and disprovable hypothosese known to man), meant that faced with a reality that people of other races were actually competent and capable and industrious meant that while apartheid operated a fascination amongst races developed, such that people were able to see beyond race and find attributes of admiration in people solely on the basis of their abilities.
There are two ways of looking at it.
1.Apartheid limited contact between races and also created the class distinction.
2.The 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants have had their cultures diluted.
I dont think that this was an intention of the framers of the apartheid policies, but the law being so ridiculous, forced people to examine their predjudices and get over it. Why that happened in SA and not in other places who knows, but SA also managed a courageous social experiment with the truth commision, a process that I'm not sure could have been carried out anywhere else in the world.
Originally posted by howardgeethey need to hang out more.
Even more worrying:
"The problem with these close-blood marriages is that they have been carrying on for so many generations, within such a small, tight group of people, that genetically it's the equivalent of brothers marrying sisters."
http://secretdubai.blogspot.com/2006/07/kissing-cousins.html
"Despite sky high rates of deadly genetic disorders such as thalassaemia, and extensive government campaigns against consanguineous marriages, more than fifty percent of UAE nationals still marry someone they are related to"
Originally posted by zeeblebotHey its worked for the de Rothschilds and I havent seen them lose much money or sleep lately.
they need to hang out more.
"Despite sky high rates of deadly genetic disorders such as thalassaemia, and extensive government campaigns against consanguineous marriages, more than fifty percent of UAE nationals still marry someone they are related to"
Originally posted by howardgeeBut it takes brains to keep it. Do you know how to make a small fortune in Australia? Start with a big one. Just ask Alan Bond (first non American to win the America's Cup after 132 years of competition)or Christopher Skase for that matter. After winning the cup Bondy went on to accumalate a national television network at the cost of $A 1 billion only to have to sell it for 300 mill prior to falling from grace going bankrupt and landing in jail.
Money makes money.
Yeah, money does make money, but a fool is often parted from its company.