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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
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Does "identity and difference" mean "identity and difference in the understanding and acceptance of apartheid"?
Context:
JEAN COMAROFF: In the rainbow nation, the emphasis was less on racial and ethnic differences than on their synergy, their unity. That’s why I think South Africa captured the imagination of the world to the degree that it did. In the late 20th century, after the end of the Cold War, when identity and difference were beginning to pull nation-states apart, he stood for inclusion and equality.
More:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/12/still-transcendent/
JEAN COMAROFF: In the rainbow nation, the emphasis was less on racial and ethnic differences than on their synergy, their unity. That’s why I think South Africa captured the imagination of the world to the degree that it did. In the late 20th century, after the end of the Cold War, when identity and difference were beginning to pull nation-states apart, he stood for inclusion and equality.
More:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/12/still-transcendent/
Top answer
No, I think it means people's preoccupation with their identity as members of a particular race or ethnic group, and with the differences between their race/group and others.
- No, I think it means people's preoccupation with their identity as members of a particular race or ethnic group, and with the differences between their race/group and others.
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No, I think it means people's preoccupation with their identity as members of a particular race or ethnic group, and with the differences between their race/group and others.
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