Social Studies Reflection

The project that I have been working on is about Apartheid. Apartheid was a terrible thing in South Africa where the people who were not white were horribly discriminated against. This is different than regular racism againt one type of person becuase this dicrimination was against anyone who was not white.
I believe that people should have learned their lesson from the holocaust and realized how horrible it is to discrinmate a certain group of people. I think that Apartheid was terrible because even after people saw what happens when things get out of hand with discrimination,
they still did it. Another reason that this was ridiculous was that white people went to that country on purpose to be racist and had no reason to be doing it. During this time a lot of innocent people were beaten, arrested, or even killed just like the jews in the concentratuion camps.
Apartheid riots were always worse for the rioters because they were always the one getting arrested and beaten even if it was a silent protest. This means that the people beating them and arresting them did it out of hate and violence that the world could do without. I think that all of the violence during apartheid could have been avoided but some people did not. During Apartheid people where good leaders such as Nelson Mandela who helped to end Apartheid .
I think that Apartheid is very much like the Holocaust because there were people prejudice against other people because of their ethnicity even though they did nothing wrong. I dont think that it is possible to end racism but i do think that it is possible to end fighting and hurtting people over it. People to day should not hate one another because of their color or religon but there is always going to be those people out there who do not like someone else.
In conclusion, I think that Aparheid was horrible and should never happen again. The reason I kept referring the Holocaust to Apartheid is that they are so much alike that I would think that people would have learned their lesson but I guess I was wrong.



BY : Joe, period 3