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...visiting South Africa, to see how much the country has changed and how far it still has to go. Both Jimmy's Face to Face Tours (www.face2face.co.za) and Max Maximum Tours www.backpackafrica.com offer quality guided visits. Nearby is the Apartheid Museum www.apartheidmuseum.org) at which visitors are randomly assigned a racial classification and then enter the raw concrete-and-steel structure through one of two doors--white or nonwhite. Inside are exhibits, photos, video and posters chronicling apartheid's repression as well as the optimism of the 1994 elections. The newly opened Constitutional Court, a spectacular glass-and-concrete structure that...
...image. Outlawing the noose may allow New Yorker legislators to feel as if they have dealt a mortal blow to racism, but in reality they have merely put it on the back burner. Our country cannot overcome racism by passing meaningless laws, only by encouraging dialog and cooperation across racial lines. Still, the most frightening consequence of this bill is the idea that the government can dictate to us which of our views are appropriate. In this case, New Yorkers haven’t lost much, but if politicians can ban the socially intolerable, then they can eventually...
...huge popularity of reality TV - cheap to produce and capable of provoking the kind of controversy that still hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel 4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots in India after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants. Earlier this year, The Verdict, a BBC reality show, brought together a jury of celebrities, including the novelist, former politician and jailbird Jeffrey Archer, to rule on a fictionalized rape case. It attracted heavy criticism for trivializing a serious subject, and viewing figures were paltry...
...fact that theirs [blacks’] intelligence is the same as ours—whereas the testing says not really” is clearly out of line. Interracial differences in intelligence have little basis in scientific fact and Watson’s flippant statement solely serves to exacerbate racial tension. For that matter, this is not the first time that Watson’s somewhat radical views have made headlines: In 2003 he received flak for arguing that women should be allowed to abort fetuses if genetic testing reveals they have a predisposition for homosexuality. But while Watson would...
...assimilation: first, acculturation to the majority’s traditions and way of life, followed by socioeconomic advancement and gaining of access to major institutions, and finalized when ethnicity is no longer a salient issue. This claim can be backed up by examining the incidence of intermarriage, which in racial theory is often viewed as the final stage of assimilation (interracial intimate relations are expected to increase with weakening ethnic attachments). True to form, Asians have the highest overall intermarriage rates in the nation...