Friday, January 15, 2010

Country Natives

If I was a native in one of the countries we disgusted I would choose to be a native in South Africa. I would be from here because the natives were treated better here than from any of the other countries. Even thought the natives were not seen or treated as equals, at least in the future they became important to society and a part of the government. In the beginning the natives were discriminated and in some cases even killed. At one point South Africa was split up into "homelands". People were placed in homelands depending upon their race. Different homelands had different rights including voting. In order for people from the homelands to be allowed into the South Africa they had to have passports that included their information and fingerprint.

The natives here were discriminated in other ways also. Though they were treated bad, natives in other countries were often treated a lot worse. In Rwanda after the Belgians took over they put the Tutsis in power, and then right before they left they put the Hutus in power. The Hutus and Tutsis had so many problems that a genocide broke out, leaving almost nobody safe. People couldn't even leave their house without the worry that they may not come back alive. These natives along with many others including those from Australia and the United States, had much worse living conditions than those in South Africa.

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