Impact Of Apartheid On South African Society

As Southern Africa was colonised by the Western societies the impact of their society’s structure influenced the future of the society as later South Africa was under Apartheid because the creation of the “us” and “them” classification of race which led to the segregation of races and the maltreatment of black citizens in South Africa. Now due to Apartheid the post-Apartheid South African society is affected economically and socially because the different races back during Apartheid had different privileges which helped them in life (Own knowledge) i.e. Many of the black communities today in post-Apartheid South Africa live in poverty and bad conditions because during Apartheid their race was not given any privileges to help them prosper, thus resulting in them struggling in today’s modernised society. (Howell, Vincent 2014) Their economic …show more content…
(Own knowledge) Then when the Americas were colonised slavery was introduced and that’s when African Americans were then assimilated into the class structure of the Americas at that time. The “us” and “them” in the American society was divided into the whites and the African Americans. The African Americans then also had their own sub class which was divided into the educated and the uneducated. (Du Bois 1940) The “us” were the uneducated African Americans and the “them are the educated African Americans who were ostracized from their own community because they were viewed as being too assimilated into the white culture. Du Bois also described this as double consciousness. As you can see modern American society was similar to our modern African society in the ways it was influenced by westernisation. This shows that societies are not drastically different, but rather have