Word: homeland
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...heart of the problem. Carter has been thinking out loud. Much of his talk is unnecessary, a lot of it ineffective, some of it troublesome. The world is slightly paranoid over word meanings. Bureaucrats and diplomats get exorbitant salaries these days to ponder the depths of "homeland" or "defensible borders." In the torrent of Carter words there are always contradictions for those who want to find them. For others, there is growing boredom...
...their mores and lifestyle, the Afrikaners?particularly in the countryside?are as authentically tribal in outlook as Zulus living in a homeland kraal. Afrikaner society is a rigid one, held together by language (Dutch-based), faith (a fundamentalist form of Calvinism) and a sense of special mission created by their hard history. Even in the large cities, Afrikaners tend to mix uneasily with English-speaking whites. In the country, they are a law and a people unto themselves. The family structure is strong and disciplined; Afrikaner youth are far less likely than their Anglo counterparts to smoke or drink. Sunday...
Isolated in the heartland of the Dark Continent, the Afrikaners were relatively untouched by the liberalizing forces that swept Europe and America in the 19th century. Nor were their ranks infused with the new blood of Dutch immigrants from what had long ceased to be a homeland across the seas. After the Boer War, the Afrikaners were second-class citizens in what they regarded as their only country. Their solution was to take refuge in and inspiration from their churches and societies?notably the mysterious Broederbond?which knit the community together, and to wait for a time when political power...
...matter. The first homeland to be granted its "independence," Transkei, celebrated its first anniversary last month. Although invitations to the ceremonies were sent to most Western capitals, Pretoria was the only one to accept. Transkei's Prime Minister, Chief Kaiser Matanzima, took the occasion to attack "the rejection of our legitimacy" by the outside world. In December a second homeland, Bophuthatswana, will officially become independent, and three more are likely to follow within the next two years. The only one definitely holding out against such independence is KwaZulu, whose leader, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, dismisses the whole idea as a sham...
...what he calls the "intellectual treachery" of America's group of neo-conservative once-liberal Jews. These champions of new ethnicity are, he observes, by and large second or third generation immigrants, uprooted from their European cultures and, as Jews, haunted by the idea of being exiled from the homeland, or belonging to a pariah class. Via intellectual cosmopolitanism, and either political left-liberalism or socialism, they compensated by making the world their home. But in the past 50 years, the holocaust and the subsequent creation of the Israeli state played on the consciences of many American Jews and seduced...