Race-based superiority still a reality: Dlamini-Zuma

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Johannesburg - Some people still feel superior to others on the grounds of race, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Wednesday.

Dlamini-Zuma told delegates at government’s two-day social cohesion summit in Kliptown that “there can’t be social cohesion if some people still feel superior to other people”.

The minister said further: “There cannot be social cohesion if we do not come together as we have done in the past and talk.

"But from the way we talk and act it is clear that most of the people that should accept being Africans – and in this phase they are entitled to be here, but race still plays a crucial role – some people still feel superior because they belong to a certain race.”

Without mentioning the name of FF Plus chief whip Corne Mulder, who earlier asked for a ministry for minorities to be established, amid jeers by delegates, Dlamini-Zuma said minorities should integrate with majorities.

“I find it a problem when the minority wants to be apart from the majority. The minority must integrate with all of us and not be treated separately or differently.”
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"But from the way we talk and act it is clear that most of the people that should accept being Africans – and in this phase they are entitled to be here, but race still plays a crucial role – some people still feel superior because they belong to a certain race.”
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That sentence makes no sense grammatically - but is she saying that us pinkies ARE now Africans ?
 
daveza said:
That sentence makes no sense grammatically - but is she saying that us pinkies ARE now Africans ?
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She is probably referring to the braintrust that is the News24 opinion column writers and comment section.
 
MickeyD said:
Why do the Zulus think that they are superiror to other races?
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Whatever their reason for thinking that (And that is quite a generalisation you make), they, and other race groups, do need to stop the racist thinking
 
Apache said:
Really?
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Multiculturalism = many(multi) cultures.
If the cultures integrated they would no longer be many cultures but would be one unified integrated culture.
Thus multiculturalism is anti integration and the maintaining of multiple cultures...

As a normative term, it refers to ideologies or policies that promote this diversity or its institutionalisation; in this sense, multiculturalism is a society “at ease with the rich tapestry of human life and the desire amongst people to express their own identity in the manner they see fit.”.[2]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism

As opposed to assimilation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation
that supports or promotes the assimilation of cultural and ethnic minorities into the dominant culture.
 
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JStrike said:
Whatever their reason for thinking that (And that is quite a generalisation you make), they, and other race groups, do need to stop the racist thinking
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That's exactly the point I'm making. Folks need to move away from the "black vs white" mindset; this is bigger than that.
 
To quote Rachel Daws in Batman ...

It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you.

If the Third world wants to associate with the First world, they have to start acting like first world people.
 
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“I find it a problem when the minority wants to be apart from the majority. The minority must integrate with all of us and not be treated separately or differently.”
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Oh lawl... she thinks she is the majority. Somehow I doubt the majority feel the warmth. And as for "The minority must integrate with all of us and not be treated separately or differently"... then stop treating the minority differently already.

Dlamini-Zuma told delegates at government’s two-day social cohesion summit in Kliptown that “there can’t be social cohesion if some people still feel superior to other people”.
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Race is merely one way people differentiate from one another. Class and culture are others. I don't see her sharing much in common with the squatter down the road or the local shebeen queen. Does that mean she needs to make more of an effort to 'integrate' with them?
 
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Picard said:
To quote Rachel Daws in Batman ...

It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you.

If the Third world wants to associate with the First world, they have to start acting like first world people.
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That's my feeling. It's not a question of superiority viz race, it's a racial inferiority complex. I understand where non-whites got it from and I'm sorry. But, blacks need to start thinking of themselves as equal rather than trying to bring us down to their level. Which, I'm sorry, but I think is what this idiot is on about.
 
Without mentioning the name of FF Plus chief whip Corne Mulder, who earlier asked for a ministry for minorities to be established, amid jeers by delegates, Dlamini-Zuma said minorities should integrate with majorities.
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How is it even technically possible for me to 'integrate' in the black culture? :P
 
I know I'm superior to Dlamini-Zuma but that belief is not based on race.
 
I do believe that I am more intelligent and mentally superior than the average ANC voter(apart from those who are benefiting from their system).
 
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