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• Apartheid is an Afrikaans word coined to describe South Africa's white minority rule governent's policies of racial segregation from 1948 until the early 1990s.

The term has entered international concsiousness to such a degree that it has been used to describe, by analogy, various situations of alleged institutional racism beyond South Africa's borders.

• Israeli apartheid is a term used by some left-wing critics of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians.
  • The apartheid wall is a term used by the same critics to describe a barrier being built to seperate Israel from the West Bank.

• Some Basques have argued that the Navarrese laws (in Spain) that don't acknowledge full officiality to the Basque language are a form of apartheid.

• Supporters of Batasuna also call its illegalisation "apartheid".

• 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. It is defined as "an international system of minority rule whose attributes include: differential access to basic human rights; wealth and power structured by race and place; structural racism, embedded in global economic processes, political institutions and cultural assumptions; and the international practice of double standards that assume inferior rights to be appropriate for certain "others," defined by location, origin, race or gender."

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