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Controversially, arguments are often made that the actions of other nations are analogous to ], or constitute apartheid under the definition adopted in ]. |
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In particular, ] was the law in the American South until the ]. Some similarities between the situation in the U.S. and South Africa are: |
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* The races were kept separate. |
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* Blacks were systematically denied voting rights. |
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* ] was similar to apartheid etiquette. |
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Some differences were: |
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* In the U.S. after the civil war, there was never a class of blacks who were not citizens; there were no "homelands" in the U.S. |
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* Unlike the apartheid system, the Jim Crow system was not maintained by a very small white minority. |
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* In South Africa, voting rights were denied to blacks outright, by denying them citizenship. In the U.S., denial of voting rights in the was enforced by local custom, or by poll taxes and selective enforcement of literacy requirements. |
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Some Basques have argued that the ]se laws (in Spain) that do not grant official status to the ] are a form of apartheid. |
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Supporters of ] also call its illegalisation "apartheid". |
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The State of ]'s Constitution denies ]s citizenship. ] denies citizenship not only to Jews, but to ]s as well, and non-Muslims are not permitted to reside permanently in the country. |
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The ] is often referred to by critics as the ''Apartheid wall'', and some critics of Israel refer to it as a "racist" and/or "Apartheid" state. |
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]'s discriminatory practices against women and non-Muslim minorities can also be described as forms of apartheid (see also for Human Rights Watch report). |
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Global apartheid is the view that rich democratic Western nations are acting in much the same way as white South Africa, by exploiting or ignoring the plight of people in developing countries. White South Africans justified their actions by citing black South Africans as nominally removed from them in terms of geography and therefore citizens of another territory. |
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